John 5:34 - Easy To Read Version I don’t need a man to tell people about me. But I tell you these things so that you can be saved. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But I do not receive [a mere] human witness [the evidence which I accept on My behalf is not from man]; but I simply mention all these things in order that you may be saved (made and kept safe and sound). American Standard Version (1901) But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved. Common English Bible Although I don’t accept human testimony, I say these things so that you can be saved. Catholic Public Domain Version But I do not accept testimony from man. Instead, I say these things, so that you may be saved. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved. |
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets. {\cf2\super [250]} You kill with rocks those men that God has sent you. Many, many times I wanted to help your people. I wanted to gather your people together like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you did not let me.
The Son of Man {\cf2\super [299]} came to find lost people and save them.”
But these things are written so that you can believe that Jesus is the Christ, {\cf2\super [268]} the Son of God. Then, by believing, you can have life through his name.
But there is another person that tells people about me. And I know that the things he says about me are true.
Jesus answered, “If I give honor to myself, then that honor is worth nothing. The One that gives me honor is my Father. And you say that he is your God.
Brothers and sisters, the thing I want most is for all the Jews to be saved. That is my prayer to God.
\{God said this through Isaiah about the non-Jewish people.\} But about the Jewish people God says, “All day long I have waited for those people, but they refuse to obey and refuse to follow me.” {\cf2\super [113]}
It is true that some Jews were not faithful to God. But will that stop God from doing what he promised?
To the people that are weak, I became weak so that I could help save them. I have become all things to all people. I did this so that I could save people in any way possible.
Be careful in your life and in your teaching. Continue to live and teach rightly. Then you will save yourself and those people who listen to your teaching.
We believe people when they say something is true. But what God says is more important. And this is what God told us: He told us the truth about his own Son.