11Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
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I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one , a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul . Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees ; yet. 1. This was a man of the Phari…
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