John 5:31

If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not worthy of credit.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

In Context

30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

32There is another that testifies concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies concerning me is worthy of credit.

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Cross References

John 8:13Then the Pharisees said to him: You testify concerning yourself; your testimony is not worthy of credit.

Revelation 3:14And to the angel of the church in Laodicea, write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Matthew Henry on John 5:18-31

Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth… Read the whole commentary →

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