Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 5:31
If I testify of myself — That is, if I alone, (which indeed is impossible,) my testimony is not valid.
If I testify of myself — That is, if I alone, (which indeed is impossible,) my testimony is not valid.
Verse 31. _IF I BEAR WITNESS_] If I had no proof to bring of my being the Messiah, and equal to God, common sense would direct you to reject my testimony; but the mighty power of God, by which I work...
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF - If I have no other evidence than my own testimony about myself. MY WITNESS - My testimony; my evidence. The proof would not be decisive. IS NOT TRUE - The word “true,” h...
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...
IF. BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF. _I_ is the emphatic word and is equivalent to "I only." He' cites other witnesses that these Jews ought to heed....
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
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...
IF. Assuming the condition, where experience will decide. App-118. I. Emphatic. I alone. BEAR WITNESS. See note on John 1:7. OF. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104. The emphasis being on "Myself"....
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...
_my witness is not true_ Nothing is to be understood; the words are to be taken quite literally: -If I bear any witness other than that which My Father bears, that witness of Mine is not true." In Joh...
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_....
ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΣΤΙΝ�. Nothing is to be understood; the words are to be taken literally: ‘If I bear any witness other than that which My Father bears, that witness of Mine is not true.’ In John 8:14, we have an...
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...
ΆΛΗΘΉΣ (G227) истинный, подлинный в смысле соответствующий закону. Принцип закона здесь взят из Deuteronomy 19:15, где сказано, что человек не может быть осужден на основании показаний одного очевидца...
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF, &C.— These certainly were very grand assertions, which our Lord made of his own dignity. But he did not require his hearers to believe them merely on the authority of his...
JESUS-' OWN WITNESS _Text 5:30-32_ 30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 31 If I bea...
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...
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF, [ peri (G4012)] - 'concerning Myself;' that is, in the sense already explained-standing alone, and setting up a se...
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...
Christ's witness to Himself could not be received according to the principles of Jewish law: see John 8:13, and cp. Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 17:6....
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...
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF. — This verse is the link between the thoughts of Christ’s person (John 5:17) and the witness to Him (John 5:32). He can do nothing of Himself (John 5:30), and does not eve...
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...
Ἐὰν εγὼ μαρτυρῶ … ἀληθής. Jesus anticipates the objection, that these great claims were made solely on His own authority [ἔγνω τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἐνθυμουμένους ἀντιθεῖναι, Euthym.]. The Jewish law is give...
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...
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not (p) true. (p) Faithful, that is, worthy to be credited; see (John 8:14)....
If I bear witness of myself, &c. Christ tells the Jews elsewhere, (chap. viii. 14.) that though he should bear witness of himself, it would be true. But the sense of the words in this place is: I coul...
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.”...
“ _If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true._ 32. _There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true._ ” Perhaps John 5:31 is the an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
31._If I testify concerning myself. _He does not here take any thing away from the credit due to his testimony, which he elsewhere asserts in strong terms, but he speaks by way of concession; for Chri...
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...
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF,.... Which was not allowed any man to do; nor indeed is it proper that a man should be a witness in his own cause: and, according to the Jewish canons, a man might not be a...
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. Ver. 31. _My witness is not true_] That is, fit, firm, valid, _foro humano, Concessio rhetorica._ Beza....
_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...
OF MYSELF; concerning myself, without any accompanying testimony from God. NOT TRUE; not to be received as valid....
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF, MY WITNESS IS NOT TRUE....
THE WITNESS OF JOHN, OF THE FATHER, AND OF SCRIPTURES. A reference to John:...
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...
This seemeth to contradict what he saith, 1 THESSALONIANS 8:14, _Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true:_ but our Saviour here speaketh according to the common opinion of the Jews, or i...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics still this is not enough for any man who examines before he believes, since even the Lord Himself did not bear witness of Himself.[244] Origen Against Ce...
John 5:31 If G1437 I G1473 witness G3140 (G5725) of G4012 Myself G1683 My G3450 witness G3141 is...
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...
“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.” Clearly Jesus did not literally mean that His witness was not true simply because it was His own. He was rather acknowledging that self-testimony...
John 5:31. IF I BEAR WITNESS CONCERNING MYSELF, MY WITNESS IS NOT TRUE. The word ‘I' is emphatic, ‘if it is I that bear witness.' The words plainly mean ‘I and I alone,' for no one is discredited beca...
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...
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF (Εαν εγω μαρτυρω περ εμαυτου). Condition of third class, undetermined with prospect of determination (εαν and present active subjunctive of μαρτυρεω). The emphasis is on...
WITNESS Compare (John 8:14). In (John 5:31). Our Lord, defending His Messianic claims before Jews who denied those claims, accepts the biblical rule of evidence, which required "two witnesses"; (Joh...
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...
I CAN DO NOTHING ON MY OWN. Jesus makes it clear that both he and the Father are one in intent. His relationship to mankind (Hebrews 2:14-18) grows out of the _intent_ and _plan_ of the Father. IF I T...
_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...
_If I bear witness of Myself_, that I am the Son of God, and therefore as man altogether conformed to the judgment and will of God, _My witness is not true_, that is, _legitimate, judicial, worthy of...
_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...
John 8:13; John 8:14; John 8:54; Proverbs 27:2; Revelation 3:14...
If I [ε α ν ε γ ω]. The I expressed for emphasis : I alone. True [α λ η θ η ς]. As distinguished from false. See on 1 9....
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...
Was Jesus’ self-testimony true or false? PROBLEM: In John 8:14 Jesus said, “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true.” But here in John 5:31 He seems to say just the opposite, namely, “If I be...
Our blessed Saviour having produced these five foregoing arguments, to prove his unity in essence, and his equality in power, with the Father, comes now at the end of the chapter, to produce several t...