John 5:31–47

³¹“If I testify on my own behalf, what I say isn’t true. ³²Someone else testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true. ³³You sent people to John ⸤the Baptizer⸥, and he testified to the truth. ³⁴But I don’t depend on human testimony. I’m telling you this to save you. ³⁵John was a lamp that gave off brilliant light. For a time you enjoyed the pleasure of his light. ³⁶But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John’s testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me. ³⁷The Father who sent me testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice, and you have never seen his form. ³⁸So you don’t have the Father’s message within you, because you don’t believe in the person he has sent. ³⁹You study the Scriptures in detail because you think you have the source of eternal life in them. These Scriptures testify on my behalf. ⁴⁰Yet, you don’t want to come to me to get ⸤eternal⸥ life. 

⁴¹“I don’t accept praise from humans. ⁴²But I know what kind of people you are. You don’t have any love for God. ⁴³I have come with the authority my Father has given me, but you don’t accept me. If someone else comes with his own authority, you will accept him. ⁴⁴How can you believe when you accept each other’s praise and don’t look for the praise that comes from the only God? 

⁴⁵“Don’t think that I will accuse you in the presence of the Father. Moses, the one you trust, is already accusing you. ⁴⁶If you really believed Moses, you would believe me. Moses wrote about me. ⁴⁷If you don’t believe what Moses wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?”