Those who do not love me do not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me — the contrast is stark: those who do not love Jesus do not keep his words, and thus do not receive the word of the Father. The disowning of Jesus' words is fundamentally a rejection of the Father's word; they cannot be separated. Yet those who receive Jesus' word receive it not as human teaching but as divine utterance, the very word of God.

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