The Father responded to Christ's prayer, for example, raising Lazarus from the dead: | John 11:41 Then they took away
the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.
And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I
thank You that You have heard me." Mat 26:53 "Or do you think that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels?" |
Jesus chose to do all his miracles only by the power of the Father: | John 5:19 "Most assuredly,
I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what
he sees the Father do; for whatever he does, the Son also
does in like manner." John 5:30 "I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me." John 14:10 "the Father who dwells in me does the works." |
Jesus spoke and did only what the Father commanded him: | John 12:49-50 "For I have
not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent
me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should
speak. And I know that his command is everlasting life.
Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told
me, so I speak." John 14:10 "The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority" John 8:29 "And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him." |
Jesus could at any time have reached into the infinite knowledge that belonged to him as God, but he voluntarily restricted himself to knowledge the Father gave him: | Mark 13:32 "But of that
day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven,
nor the Son, but only the Father." John 15:15 "all things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you." |
Although not in any way inferior to the Father, Jesus placed himself in a position of dependent submission: | John 5:26 "For as the
Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to
have life in himself." John 14:26 "My Father is greater than I." |