John 5:31

'If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30'I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

32another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;

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Cross References

John 8:13The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, 'Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

Revelation 3:14'And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness — the faithful and 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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