“I have a witness even greater than John. The works the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I’m doing—are a witness that the Father has sent me.
If I hadn’t done works among them that no one else had done, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin. But now they’ve seen those works and they’ve still hated both me and my Father.
We accept what humans say when they’re witnesses. But when God is a witness, what he says is much stronger evidence, because it’s God talking, and he’s talking about his own Son.
came to see Jesus one night. He said, “Rabbi, we know that you’re a teacher who has come from God, because no one could do the signs you’re doing unless God was with them.”
“Fellow Israelites, listen to this! God showed his approval of the man Jesus of Nazareth by doing miracles, wonders, and signs among you through him. You all know this well.