John 5:34
But I do not accept testimony from man. Instead, I say these things, so that you may be saved.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
In Context
33You sent to John, and he offered testimony to the truth.
35He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.
Cross References
Luke 19:10For the Son of man has come to seek and to save what had been lost.”
Luke 24:47and, in his name, for repentance and the remission of sins to be preached, among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
John 8:54Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.
Romans 3:3But what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!
Romans 10:21Then to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who do not believe and who contradict me.”
1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak, I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. To all, I became all, so that I might save all.
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 →