John 5:41
I receive not honor from men.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
I receive not honour from men.
In Context
40and yet you refuse to come to me, that you may have life.
42But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
Cross References
John 5:44How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?
John 7:18He who speaks of himself, seeks his own glory; he who seeks the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
John 8:54Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing; it is my Father that honors me, of whom you say, that he is your God.
1 Peter 2:21To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.
Matthew Henry on John 5:32-47
Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that… Read the whole commentary →