“And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me.”

Furthermore the Father had Himself borne witness to Jesus. He had done it through the voice at His baptism (Mark 1:11). He had done it through His Spirit continually testifying to men's hearts that Jesus was from God, for ‘he who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself' (1 John 5:10). And He has also spoken of Jesus through their very Scriptures. Furthermore He also witnesses to Him through the works of power that Jesus does. But the truth is that they will not hear the testimony because their hearts are hardened.

Jesus may well rather have had in mind here by His reference to the Scriptures, all the Old Testament promises with regard to the coming David, the coming Servant of YHWH found there, especially as propounded in Isaiah 9:6. In the Scriptures there was a constant stream of testimony to the One Who was coming and what He was going to do under the hand of God.

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