John 5:30-33

Witnesses to Jesus

³⁰ _d "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and _e my judgment is just, because _f I seek not my own will _g but the will of him who sent me. ³¹ _h If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. ³² There is _i another who bears witness about me, and _j I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ³³ _k You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

1. Cross References
   John 5:19
   So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
   John 8:28
   So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
   John 14:10
   Do 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 authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
   
2. Cross References
   John 8:16
   Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
   
3. Cross References
   John 4:34
   Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
   John 6:38
   For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
   John 7:18
   The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
   Romans 15:3
   For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 26:39
   And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.
   
5. Cross References
   John 8:13 - 14
   So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.
   John 8:18
   I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.
   John 8:54
   Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.
   John 18:21
   Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.
   
6. Cross References
   John 5:37
   And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen.
   
7. Cross References
   John 7:28 - 29
   So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
   
8. Cross References
   John 1:7
   He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
   John 1:19
   And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?