John 5:31-44

³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony isn’t valid.

³²There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴Not that I accept human testimony, but I tell you this so that you may be saved.

³⁵John was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

³⁶I have a greater testimony than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to finish — the very works that I do — testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁷The Father Himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

³⁸You don’t have His words dwelling in you, because you don’t believe the One who He sent.

³⁹You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and these testify about me.

⁴⁰Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

⁴¹“I don’t accept glory from men,

⁴²but I know you. I know that you don’t have God’s sincere love in you.

⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t accept me, but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

⁴⁴How can you believe when you accept glory from one another, and don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?