8And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
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This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. …
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. …
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)The faith of the Christian believer (or the believer in Christ) being thus mighty and victorious, it had need to be well founded, to be furnished with unquestionable celestial evidence concerning the divine mission, authority, and office of the Lord Jesus; and it is so; he brings his credentials along with him, and he brings them in a way by which he came and in the witness that attends him. I. In…
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