Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not his word abiding in you—passing now from the Witness to the testimony borne by Him in "the lively oracles" (Acts 7:38): both were alike strangers to their breasts, as was evidenced by their rejecting Him to whom all that witness was borne.
I have greater witness—rather, "The witness which I have is greater."
the works . . . bear witness of me—not simply as miracles nor even as a miracle of mercy, but these miracles, as He did them, with a will and a power, a majesty and a grace manifestly His own.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 5:38:
1 John 1:10
1 John 3:9
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