John 3:11
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Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
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We speak that we know, and . . . have seen--that is, by absolute knowledge and immediate vision of God, which "the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father" claims as exclusively His own (Joh 1:18). The "we" and "our" are here used, though Himself only is intended, in emphatic contrast, probably, with the opening words of Nicodemus, "Rabbi, we know.", &c. ye receive not, &c.--referring to the class to which Nicodemus belonged, but from which he was beginning to be separated in spirit.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. Christ's discourse with Nicodemus, a Pharisee, concerning the great mysteries of the gospel, in which he here privately instructs him (v. 1-21). II. John Baptist's discourse with his disciples concerning Christ, upon occasion of his coming into the neighbourhood where John was (Joh 3:22-36), in which he fairly and faithfully resigns all his honour and interest to him.
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I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.