John 5:41
"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
I receive not honour from men.
In Context
40"you will not come to me that you may have life.
42"that you have not the love of God in yourselves.
Cross References
John 5:44"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?
John 7:18"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.
John 8:54"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, ‘He is our God.’
1 Peter 2:21For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;
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 →