John 8:13-19
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Verse 13
The Pharisees challenge Jesus in saying, “here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.” Jesus said in
“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
John
“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
John 5:31
Is this going against what Jesus said?
Here the
The Law of Moses required multiple witnesses. Jesus’ point is that His witness is not by Himself to Himself, but for the Father to the Father and WITH the Father.
The Pharisees overlooked that they already had credible witnesses:
They had Moses
They had the Prophets
They had John the Baptist
The law had already been fulfilled
Verse 14
It is the property of the Light to be self-evidencing! This doesn’t negate , but it sheds light on it that His testimony is not just His own.
Jesus knew from whence He came!
He was conscious of His own authority
His accusers were ignorant of where Jesus came from
Jesus repeats the same foundational thinking he has already gone over.
Jesus can offer testimony for Himself because of His unique origin.
Does Jesus have to repeat things to you?
Jesus’ opponents have no right to speak since they do not know where He came from nor where He is going.
Do you take Jesus at His word?
He is not speaking on His own, but according to that of His Father.
Jesus’ heavenly mission did not need human validation.
Jesus was aware of His own authority.
Verse 15
The Pharisee’s were incompetent judges of Jesus.
They judged according to the flesh. They see His flesh but never see He was the Word made flesh.
The senseless man does not know,
fools do not understand,
Jude 8-
In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.
They judged with no spiritual sense; they judged by human standards.
Jesus states: “I pass judgement on no one.” Jesus came to save not condemn. Pharisees were about a worldly viewpoint:
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
The Gospels show that the charge of the Pharisees also show that Jesus was not discriminating enough.
When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
Luke
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Verse 16
Jesus states that if He did judge, He would be correct, because He is in tune, He is aligned with the Father.
Jesus judges only as He hears from the Father. The witness born is valid because it does consist of 2 witnesses: The Father and the Son.
“I stand with the Father.” Indicates that the heartbeat of Jesus and the Father is ONE.
His unity with the Father means His teaching and judgement are also of the Father.
The claim demands a decision: accept it or reject it!
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord—
It is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne. And there will be harmony between the two.’
Zechariah
Psalm 89:
My hand will sustain him;
surely my arm will strengthen him.
“Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him
and he will bring justice to the nations.
For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. We accept man’s testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John
What is the importance of Jesus and the Father being One?