John 5:31

If I should bear testimony respecting myself, my testimony would not be valid.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30I can do nothing of my own pleasure; but as I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just; for I seek not my own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent me.

32There is another that beareth testimony concerning me; and I know that the testimony which he beareth concerning me is true.

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Cross References

John 8:13The Pharisees said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself, thy testimony is not certain.

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