John 6:38 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:38

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

KJV

For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

ON PRAYER 4 (220)

If [Christ] himself proclaimed that he did not his own but the Father's will, without doubt those things that he used to do were the Father's will. We are now encouraged to do these exemplary things too: to preach, to work, to endure even to the point of death. And we need the will of God so that we may be able to fulfill these duties.… [Christ] himself was the will and the power of the Father. And yet, for the demonstration of the patience that was due, he gave himself up to the Father's will.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For I came down from heaven,.... by change of place, or local motion; for Christ is the immense, infinite, and omnipresent God, and cannot be said properly to move from place to place; for he fills all places, even heaven and earth, with his presence, and was in heaven as the Son of God, at the same time he was here on earth as the son of man: wherefore this must be understood in a manner becoming his proper deity, his divine sonship, and personality: this descent was by the assumption of the human nature into union with his divine person, which was an instance of amazing grace and condescension.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Not to do mine own will - I am come, not to act according to human motives, passions, or prejudices; but according to infinite wisdom, goodness, and mercy. Jewish passions and prejudices would reject publicans and sinners as those alluded to, and shut the gate of heaven against the Gentiles; but God’s mercy receives them, and I am come to manifest that mercy to men.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

Three of our Lord Jesus Christ's great sayings are strung together, like pearls, in this passage. Each of them ought to be precious to every true Christian. All taken together, they form a mine of truth, into which he that searches need never search in vain. We have, first, in these verses, a saying of Christ about Himself. We read that Jesus said—"I am the bread of life—he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst." Our Lord would have us know that He himself is the appointed food of man's soul.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτι	hoti	For	G3754 →
καταβέβηκα	katabebēka	I have come down	G2597 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
οὐχ	ouch	not	G3756 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ποιῶ	poiō	I may do	G4160 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
θέλημα	thelēma	will	G2307 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἐμὸν	emon	of Me	G1473 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
θέλημα	thelēma	will	G2307 →
τοῦ	tou	of the [One who]	G3588 →
πέμψαντός	pempsantos	having sent	G3992 →
με.	me	Me.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 4:34
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
leads to
- John 5:30
  I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
- Job 23:12
  I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
- John 17:4
  I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
Through
John 5:30
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
leads to
- John 5:19
  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.
- John 4:34
  Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- John 14:10
  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father…
Through
John 3:31
The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is…
leads to
- Matthew 28:18
  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- John 8:23
  Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.