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The Certainty of God’s Witness

6 This is He who came aby water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. bAnd it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.  
7 For there are three that bear witness1 in heaven: the Father, athe Word, and the Holy Spirit; band these three are one.  
8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: athe Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.  
9 If we receive athe witness of men, the witness of God is greater; bfor this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.  
10 He who believes in the Son of God ahas the witness in himself; he who does not believe God bhas made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.  
11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 John 5:8

agree in one—"tend unto one result"; their agreeing testimony to Jesus' Sonship and Messiahship they give by the sacramental grace in the water of baptism, received by the penitent believer, by the atoning efficacy of His blood, and by the internal witness of His Spirit (I John 5:10): answering to the testimony given to Jesus' Sonship and Messiahship by His baptism, His crucifixion, and the Spirit's manifestations in Him (see on I John 5:6). It was by His coming by water (that is, His baptism in Jordan) that Jesus was solemnly inaugurated in office, and revealed Himself as Messiah; this must have been peculiarly important in John's estimation, who was first led to Christ by the testimony of the Baptist. By the baptism then received by Christ, and by His redeeming blood-shedding, and by that which the Spirit of God, whose witness is infallible, has effected, and still effects, by Him, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, unite, as the threefold witness, to verify His divine Messiahship [NEANDER].




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