John 5:31

“If I alone testify of Myself, My testimony is not true.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 1 The Fourfold Witness

32There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He testifies concerning Me is true.

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Cross References

John 8:13Therefore the Pharisees said to Him, “You testify about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.”

Revelation 3:14“And to the messenger 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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