John 5:35 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁵He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

John 5:35 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
John 1:7-8
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. …
Matthew 11:11
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Luke 1:76-77
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; …
Matthew 3:5-7
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, …

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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 ev…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 35)

33-35. Ye sent unto John--(See Joh 1:19, &c.). receive not testimony ... from man--that is, depend not on human testimony. but ... that ye might be saved--“I refer to him merely to aid your salvation.”