# My teaching is not mine

[John 7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7\&version=NIV)

> 16 Jesus answered, “<mark style="color:red;">**My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.**</mark> 17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

[John 12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012\&version=RSV)

> 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has bidden me.”
