πατήρ patḗr

Meaning

a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)

In the King James Version: father, parent

Derivation: apparently a primary word;

Where it is used

• John 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
• John 10:32 But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”
• John 10:36 then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
• John 10:37 If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.
• John 10:38 But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
• John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• John 12:26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 12:27 Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
• John 12:28 Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
• John 12:49 I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
• John 12:50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
• John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
• John 13:3 Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
• John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
• John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
• John 14:8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
• John 14:9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
• John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
• John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
• John 14:12 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
• John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
• John 14:20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
• John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• John 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
• John 14:24 Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
• John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
• John 14:28 You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
• John 14:31 But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
• John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• John 15:8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
• John 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
• John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
• John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• John 15:23 Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
• John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
• John 15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.
• John 16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
• John 16:10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;
• John 16:15 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
• John 16:16 In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
• John 16:17 Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
• John 16:23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• John 16:25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
• John 16:26 In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
• John 16:27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
• John 16:28 I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
• John 16:32 “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
• John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
• John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
• John 17:11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
• John 17:21 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
• John 17:24 Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
• John 17:25 Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
• John 18:11 “Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”
• John 20:17 “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• John 20:21 Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”
• Acts 1:4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.