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John 5:34
But I receive not testimony from man; but these things I say that ye might be saved.
But I receive not testimony from man; but these things I say that ye might be saved.
Verse 34. _BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN_ [only.] I have no need of John's testimony: the works that I do bear sufficient testimony to me, John 5:36. _BUT THESE THINGS I SAY_, c.] You believe...
I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MEN - I do not depend for proof of my Messiahship on the testimony of men, nor do I pride myself on the commendations or flattery of men. BUT THESE THINGS ... - “This test...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
WITNESS. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. By...
YE SENT UNTO JOHN AND HE BARE WITNESS. See John 1:19. John had borne positive testimony and the Jews, in great part, believed him to be. prophet of God. Jesus did not receive human testimony, but ref...
If I bear witness about myself, my witness need not be accepted as true; but it is Another who is bearing witness about me, and I know that the witness which he bears about me is true. You sent your e...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
FROM. Greek. _para._ App-104....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
The unbelief of the Jews 31 35. _These claims rest not on My testimony alone, nor on that of John, but on that of the Father_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
31–35. _These claims rest not on My testimony alone, nor on that of John, but on that of the Father_....
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33. You sent to John, and he b...
_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
ΣΩΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΣΏΖΩ (G4982) спасать, избавлять. _Pass._ может указывать на действие, выполняемое Богом. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель....
BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN:— "I stand in no need of the testimony of John, or of any other man; nor do I _seek after_ such kind of evidence _with any anxiety. But I say these things to you,_...
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S WITNESS _Text 5:33-35_ 33 Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth. 34 But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:31-47 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Every comm...
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN - that is, I depend not on human testimony. That He should have permitted...
31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion, that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY... — There is no reason for changing the word. The substantive, and verbs from John 5:31, have been rendered by “witness,” and it is better to keep it here. The English als...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ … but for my part I do not depend upon a man's testimony. In what sense is this to be taken? In John 3:11 λαμβάνειν τὴν μαρτυρίαν means “to credit testimony,” but this sense does not satisfy...
JESUS' WORKS HIS SUFFICIENT WITNESS John 5:30-38 The one desire and purpose of our Lord was to do God's will. We cannot penetrate the mystery of His ineffable being, but clearly, so far as His human...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
“ _Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth._ 34. _But the witness which I receive, is not from man; and what I say unto you here, is to the end that ye may be saved._ 35. _He...
II. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHER, IN SUPPORT OF THAT WHICH THE SON RENDERS TO HIMSELF: JOHN 5:31-40. Jesus had just ascribed to Himself marvelous works. Such declarations might provoke an objection amo...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
34._I receive not testimony from men. _Yet it was not in vain that God chose Christ to be a witness to him, and Christ himself declares, on another occasion, that the disciples will be his witnesses....
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN,.... He stood in no need of an human testimony, nor did he rest the truth of his deity and divine sonship thereon: he had other and greater testimonies to produce;...
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. Ver. 34. _That ye might be saved_] This was that which he sought in all his oracles and miracles. Salvation prope...
_If I bear witness of myself my witness is not true_ Heylin and Wesley read, _is not valid;_ Doddridge, _is not_ [_ to be admitted as_] _true;_ and Campbell, _is not to be regarded;_ observing, “In ev...
NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN; not from man only; yet Christ appealed to the testimony of John, as what ought to convince them....
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
30-38 Our Lord returns to his declaration of the entire agreement between the Father and the Son, and declared himself the Son of God. He had higher testimony than that of John; his works bore witnes...
I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN, that is, not for my own sake; for otherwise he did receive testimony from man, 1 THESSALONIANS 15:27 ACTS 1:8. That must be truth, to which any one can give a true te...
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II Perhaps some (woman) will say: "To me it is not necessary to be approved by men; for I do not require the testimony of men:[128]...
John 5:34 Yet G1161 I G1473 not G3756 receive G2983 (G5719) testimony G3141 from G3844 man G444 but...
WITNESSES TO THE GENUINENESS OF HIS AUTHORITY (JOHN 5:31). Jesus now goes on to describe the witnesses which support Him: · He is the One to Whom the Father has borne witness (John 5:37) · His very...
“You have sent to John and he has born witness to the truth. But the witness which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you might be saved. He was a kindled and a shining lamp, an...
John 5:34. BUT NOT FROM A MAN DO I RECEIVE THE WITNESS. Great as was the witness of this greatest of prophets, yet John was only a man, and his witness therefore is not the real testimony to Jesus; it...
The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
BUT THE WITNESS WHICH I RECEIVE (Εγω δε ου την μαρτυριαν λαμβανω). "But I do not receive the witness" simply from a man (like John). The εγω (I) in sharp contrast with υμεις (ye) of verse John 5:33....
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
John 5:24. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,_ If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his S...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
IT IS NOT THAT I MUST HAVE A MAN'S WITNESS. John the Baptist was a reliable witness. Yet, as the scripture says: _"God must be true, even though every man is a liar"_ (Romans 3:4). The important witne...
_If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true._ There is another that beareth witness of Me THE WITNESSES OF THE SON I. A GREAT WITNESS, His forerunner. The Baptist as a witness for Christ wa...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_But I receive not_, &c. I do not require the witness of John, for I am God, and the Son of God, to whom John, Moses, and the Prophets ought to yield, and be taught by, and receive authority from. _Bu...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He s...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
1 Corinthians 9:22; 1 Timothy 2:3; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Timothy 4:16;...
But I [ε γ ω δ ε]. Emphatic, in contrast with ye (ver. 33). Receive [λ α μ β α ν ω]. See on 3 32. Testimony [τ η ν μ α ρ τ υ ρ ι α ν]. Rev., properly the witness. The restoration of the article is i...
SON OF GOD AND GOD THE SON John 5:31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The greatest of all questions is the one suggested in the twenty-second chapter of Matthew: "What think ye of Christ? whose Son is He?" On a p...
But I have no need to receive, &c. But these things — Concerning John, whom ye yourselves reverence, I say, that ye may be saved — So really and seriously did he will their salvation. Yet they were no...
Did Jesus accept human testimony about who He was? PROBLEM: In this verse Jesus rejected human testimony about Himself, insisting, “I do not receive testimony from man.” But elsewhere He accepted Pete...