34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
I receive not honour from men.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-47)In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I. He sets aside his own testimony of himself (John 5:31): “ If I bear witness of myself , though it is infallibly true (John 8:14), yet, according to the common rule of judgment among men, you will not admit it as legal proof , nor allow it to be given in…
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