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John 5:43

I came in the name of my Father, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

In Context

42But I know you, that the love of God is not in you.

44How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and seek not the glory which cometh from God only?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:5For many will come in my name, and will say, I am the Messiah: and they will deceive many.

John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but should have life eternal.

John 8:28Jesus said to them again: When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then will ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing from my own pleasure, but as my Father taught me, so I speak.

John 12:28Father, glorify thy name! And a voice was heard from heaven: I have glorified it; and I will glorify it again.

Acts 5:36For before this time, rose up Theudas, and said of himself, that he was some great one; and there went after him about four hundred men. And he was slain; and they who went after him, were dispersed and became as nothing.

Hebrews 5:4And no one taketh this honor on himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.

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 →

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