John 5:31

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.

32It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.

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Cross References

John 8:13The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.

Revelation 3:14And to the angel of the assembly 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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