John 5:31

"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

32"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.

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Cross References

John 8:13Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Revelation 3:14To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, 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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