John 5:43

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

I have come in my Father’s name [i.e., by His authority] and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name [i.e., by his own authority], you will accept him.

Cross References

John 10:25

Jesus answered them, “I did tell you, but you would not believe me. The [miraculous] deeds that I am doing in my Father’s name [i.e., by the Father’s authority] testify about me.

Matthew 24:5

For many [false teachers] will come, claiming to be me, and saying, ‘I am the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one]’ and they will lead many people away [from the truth].

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven to do what God, who sent me, wants me to do, not what I want to do.

John 12:28

‘Father, honor your name [in all this].’” Then a voice came out of heaven, saying, “I have honored it, and I will honor it again.”

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will appear and they will perform great [miraculous] signs and [supernatural] wonders in order to lead astray even the elect [i.e., God’s people], if possible.

John 3:16

For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.

Acts 21:38

Are you not the Egyptian who, awhile back, stirred up a revolt and led four thousand of the ‘Dagger Men’ out into the wilderness?”

John 5:42

but I know you [well enough], that you do not have a love for God within you.