would not allow. He pointed out, ‘I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive’ (5:43) They would accept a false messiah on his own testimony, but had rejected Jesus, who had come in the name of his Father God! Here he touches on the problem with his critics and the kind of religion they represented, and pinpoints the reason why they would not accept him. They were praise-seekers, and utterly self-centred. ‘How can you believe,’