“I am the way, the truth, and the life.”John 14:6
Centuries of theological debates, historical interpretations, and editorial filler have built a wall between you and the source. It is time to tear down the scaffolding. OnlyHisWords.com strips away the entire narrative of the New Testament to leave behind only one thing: the naked, unfiltered words of Jesus Christ. We have removed the context, the commentary, and the surrounding noise so you can confront His radical (at the time) teachings exactly as they were spoken. Whether you come to this as an act of faith or as a look at history’s most influential figure, this is your invitation to encounter His words directly, on their own terms.
The New Testament in the words Jesus himself spoke — every parable, teaching, and recorded saying of Jesus from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, plus His words to the seven churches and closing testimony in Revelation, organized by episode with verse references and background notes.
Matthew
The teaching gospel: the Sermon on the Mount, the parables of the kingdom, and the Great Commission.
643 Sayings →Mark
The shortest, fastest-moving gospel — brief, urgent sayings set against constant action.
280 Sayings →Luke
The gospel of parables and outsiders: the prodigal son, the Good Samaritan, and the Sermon on the Plain.
586 Sayings →John
The reflective gospel of long discourses and the seven “I am” sayings.
426 Sayings →Revelation
The risen Christ speaks again — in the vision to John, the letters to the seven churches, and the closing promise to return.
What Jesus said about…
The same words, grouped by subject — forgiveness, money, prayer, faith, love, and more.
New Testament Discussions
Background on each book — synopsis, history, authorship, and the scholarly questions surrounding it. Kept separate from the red-letter pages, where we add no commentary at all.
Test what you know
Match quotes to their reference, or references to their quote, in a four-choice quiz drawn from every gospel.
What this is
Only His Words strips away the surrounding narration of the four Gospels and leaves only what Jesus himself is recorded as saying — 1935 verses in all, King James Version, arranged by book, chapter, and episode. Where he tells a parable, the parable is kept in full, since he is its narrator; where a verse mixes narration with a quotation, only the spoken words remain.
The aim is a close, readable reference: something between a red-letter Bible and a search engine, for anyone who wants to find or revisit what Jesus said without paging past everything said about him.
How exact are these words?
The sayings gathered here are generally regarded as reliable summaries of what Jesus taught, but they are unlikely to be word-for-word transcripts in the way a modern recording would be.
Why the wording may differ from his exact words
- Language. Jesus taught mostly in Aramaic, but the Gospels were written in Greek. Every saying passed through translation before it reached the page, which reshapes the literal phrasing even when the meaning is preserved.
- Ancient biography. Writers of the period did not use quotation marks the way we do today. Their aim was to convey a speaker's true meaning and message, not to produce a verbatim transcript.
- Four separate accounts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John sometimes record the same episode or saying with noticeably different wording, reflecting each author's own sources, audience, and emphasis.
How scholars weigh authenticity
- The core message. Scholarly opinion varies in its particulars, but there is broad agreement that the central themes, parables, and ethical teachings preserved here reflect the historical Jesus of Nazareth.
- Independent attestation. When a saying appears across multiple independent sources — different Gospel writers, or early letters outside the Gospels — scholars generally have greater confidence that it reflects something Jesus actually said, even if the exact words vary.
In short: read this as a close, careful gathering of his teaching in the language it has come down to us, not as a courtroom transcript.
Search anything
Press / or use the search bar to find a phrase, a theme, or a reference like “15:11” across all four Gospels at once.
Tap any verse
Click a verse, or highlight a phrase within one, to open background on the episode it belongs to — setting, audience, and why it matters.
Read by episode
Each gospel is broken into the episodes scholars typically use — the Sermon on the Mount, the parables of the kingdom, the Last Supper — with a chapter index in the sidebar.