John 5:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

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  • John 8:18 : 18 I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
  • Deut 4:12 : 12 Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
  • 1 John 1:1-2 : 1 ¶ The Prologue to the Letter This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched(concerning the word of life– 2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • Exod 20:19 : 19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”

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  • John 5:30-36
    7 verses
    83%

    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

    31More Testimony About Jesus“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

    32There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

    33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

    34(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

    35He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

  • John 5:38-39
    2 verses
    80%

    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

    39You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

  • John 8:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • John 6:46
    78%

    46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • John 1:18
    77%

    18No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

  • John 8:38
    76%

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • John 12:45
    76%

    45and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 12:49
    74%

    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

  • John 14:7
    74%

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 17:25
    73%

    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 16:27
    73%

    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • John 10:25
    73%

    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • John 5:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

    20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

  • John 3:34
    73%

    34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

  • John 15:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

    27and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  • John 8:42
    73%

    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

  • John 3:32
    73%

    32He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

  • John 5:23
    72%

    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • John 5:43
    72%

    43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

  • John 10:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • John 8:16
    71%

    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

  • John 3:11
    71%

    11I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

  • Matt 11:27
    71%

    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 5:17
    71%

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • John 17:5
    71%

    5And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

  • John 9:37
    71%

    37Jesus told him,“You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”[

  • John 8:26
    71%

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 7:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out,“You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

    29but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

  • John 8:29
    70%

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 10:30
    70%

    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 15:24
    70%

    24If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:54
    70%

    54Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’

  • John 16:25
    70%

    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 14:28
    70%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • 2 Pet 1:17
    70%

    17For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory:“This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.”