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John 5:41 KJV

John · chapter 5 · verse 41

I receive not honour from men.John 5:41 · King James Version

John 5:41 in context

39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

41I receive not honour from men.

42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 31-47

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honourdoxaopinion, judgment, view, opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone, in…G1391 →