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John 5:32
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30 aI can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because bI do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.  

The Fourfold Witness

31 a“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not1 true.  
32 aThere is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.  
33 You have sent to John, aand he has borne witness to the truth.  
34 Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.
35 He was the burning and ashining lamp, and byou were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.  
36 But aI have a greater witness than John’s; for bthe works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very cworks that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.  
37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, ahas testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, bnor seen His form.  
38 But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.
39 aYou search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and bthese are they which testify of Me.  
40 aBut you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.  
41 a“I do not receive honor from men.  
42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
44 aHow can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek bthe honor that comes from the only God?  
45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; athere is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.  
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; afor he wrote about Me.  
47 But if you ado not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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John 5:32

There is another - God the Father, who, by his Spirit in your prophets, described my person, office, and miracles. You read these scriptures, and you cannot help seeing that they testify of me: - no person ever did answer the description there given, but myself; and I answer to that description in the fullest sense of the word. See John 5:39.

And I know - Instead of , I know, , ye know, is the reading of the Codex Bezae, Armenian, and two of the Itala. Ye believe the Scriptures to be of God, and that he cannot lie; and yet ye will not believe in me, though these Scriptures have so clearly foretold and described me! It is not one of the least evils attending unbelief, that it acts not only in opposition to God, but it also acts inconsistently with itself. It receives the Scriptures in bulk, and acknowledges them to have come through Divine inspiration; and yet believes no part separately. With it the whole is true, but no part is true! The very unreasonableness of this conduct shows the principle to have come from beneath, were there no other evidences against it.


 
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