John 5:35-46

³⁵John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while.

³⁶But the evidence I'm giving is greater than John's. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me to do,

³⁷and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behalf. You've never heard his voice, and you've never seen what he looks like,

³⁸and you don't accept what he says, because you don't trust in the one he sent.

³⁹You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you'll gain eternal life. But the evidence they give is in support of me!

⁴⁰And yet you don't want to come to me so that you might live.

⁴¹I'm not looking for human approval

⁴²—I know you, and that you don't have God's love in you.

⁴³For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them!

⁴⁴How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don't look for praise from the one true God?

⁴⁵But don't think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It's Moses who is accusing you, the one in whom you place such confidence.

⁴⁶For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.