Jesus, the Christ: Relation of, to the Father

A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.

“You will indeed drink My cup,” Jesus said. “But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them.”

Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning.

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does. …

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. …

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. …

“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

…but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

…just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.

My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

I and the Father are one.”

But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”

“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

…then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God? …

So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.

I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? …

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. …

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

…in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. …

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

…how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

…and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

…and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

…which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, …

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

…and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.” …

Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.

The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.

To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.