19 Therefore, in answer, Jesus* went on to say to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative,* but only what he beholds the Father doing.+ For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

16 Jesus, in turn, answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but belongs to him that sent me.+

49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak.+