Saturday, April 05, 2008

John 5:36-47

JESUS, speaking to the Jews who were persecuting him, said, "My testimony is greater than John's, because every work the FATHER has given me to accomplish, I am, which is testimony that the FATHER has sent me. And the FATHER who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You, however, have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form, and his word does not live in you, because you don't believe the one he sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you will not come to me, the one who gives eternal life. My glory is not from man, and I know you well: you do not have the love of GOD within you. I come in my FATHER's name, but you refuse to accept me; yet when someone else comes in his own name, you do accept him. How can you believe, you who accept praise from one another, when you do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only GOD? Even so, I am not the one who will accuse you before the FATHER. Your accuser is Moses, the very one on whom you put all your hope. If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe me?"