30 Bible Verses about The Father's Activity Regarding Christ

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

As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

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

For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”—

For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.

Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

and just as My Father has granted Me a kingdom, I grant you

For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

“Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.