John 5:43
I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
42but I know you well, and I know that in your hearts you do not really love God.
Cross References
Matthew 24:5"for many will come assuming my name and saying `I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many.
John 3:16For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.
John 8:28So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.
John 12:28Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again."
Acts 5:36Years ago Theudas appeared, professing to be a person of importance, and a body of men, some four hundred in number, joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and annihilated.
Hebrews 5:4And no one takes this honourable office upon himself, but only accepts it when called to it by 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 →