Lexicon :: Strong's G3962 - patēr

“Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

“They will be divided, father against son,

son against father,

mother against daughter,

daughter against mother,

mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,

and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“When he came to his senses,[fn] he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger![fn]

“I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

“But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

“‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’[fn]

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

“But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

“ ‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house ​— ​

“ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me ​— ​nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

And Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Saying this, he breathed his last.

No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side[fn] ​— ​he has revealed him.

“Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

“But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[fn] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father[fn] does, the Son likewise does these things.

“For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

“And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.

“The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

“so that all people may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

“For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent me.

“The Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven’t seen his form.

“I have come in my Father’s name, and yet you don’t accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

“Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

“Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.

“For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’? ”

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws[fn] him, and I will raise him up on the last day.