John 5:31

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so 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 beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

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Cross References

John 8:13The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself: thy testimony is not true.

Revelation 3:14And to the angel of the church of Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is 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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