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⛶The Word for Sunday, 18 October 2026
Jesus cried out:
I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment— what to say and what to speak.
John 12:49
We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.
Acts 4:20
John 12
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48
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. |
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49
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. |
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50
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.” |
Acts 4
| 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, |
| 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” |
| 21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened. |
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