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The Words of Jesus of Nazareth
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What do you think of Jesus Christ?
Whose Son is he?
No one knows who the Son of God is, except the Father in heaven: and no one can know who the Father is, except the Son; and those to whom the Son will reveal him. Until now you haven't known him as I do; but I have come, sent from him to you.
The One who has sent me is here with me now. He has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him. In fact, seeing me you have seen the Father; so why do you keep saying, "Reveal God to us?" Don't you believe that I am one and the same with my Father, and the Father one and the same with me?
I and my Father are one. Everything that the Father has is mine. I have come from the Father to this world; I will leave this world again, and return to my Father.
For the Son can do nothing on his own, but does only what he sees the Father do. The Father loves the Son, and has revealed his universal plan to him; and you will witness even greater miracles than those which you have already seen. Even as the Father raises the dead, and gives new life, so the son will give new life to whomever he will.
Still, I can do nothing on my own; I judge only as God guides me; and my ways are perfect, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me. As the Father has the power to give life, so the Son has the gift of life, and has been given the authority to execute judgment, because he is the Messiah, the Son of Man.
I have said this from the beginning: there is so much in your lives that I could condemn, but I have come with another message, given to me by the One who is the truth. This is the message that I speak to the world.
When at last you life up the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know who I am, realizing that I did nothing according to my own plan or authority, but delivered to you the words which my Father instructed me to proclaim.
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These are the very words of Jesus of Nazereth. Taken originally from the Bible , and arranged here by subject as they appear in Lee Cantelon's book "The Words" (c) 1997. [www.thewords.com]
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