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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

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.
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.
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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