The Son appears in the Gospels not as an independent divine person, but as a dependent one, who thinks and acts only and wholly as the Father directs. “The Son can do nothing by himself”; “By myself I can do nothing” (Jn 5:19, 30). “I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me” (Jn 6:38). “I do nothing on my own. . . .
