John 7:16
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied: I am not teaching something I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.

New American Bible
Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

My.

John 3:11,31 Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. . . .

John 8:28 Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

John 12:49,50 For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak. . . .

John 14:10,24 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works. . . .

John 17:8,14 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me. . . .

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

but.

John 5:23,24,30 That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him. . . .

John 6:38-40,44 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me. . . .

Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
15And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? 16Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.…
Cross References
John 3:11
Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.

John 12:49
For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.

John 14:24
He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.

2 John 1:9
Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

John 7:15
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