[5:30] “I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.
[5:31] “If I testify on my own behalf, what I say is not to be accepted as real proof.
[5:32] But there is someone else who testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true.
[5:33] John is the one to whom you sent your messengers, and he spoke on behalf of the truth.
[5:34] It is not that I must have a human witness; I say this only in order that you may be saved.
[5:35] John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light.
[5:36] But I have a witness on my behalf which is even greater than the witness that John gave: what I do, that is, the deeds my Father gave me to do, these speak on my behalf and show that the Father has sent me.
[5:37] And the Father, who sent me, also testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his face,
[5:38] and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the one whom he sent.
[5:39] You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!
[5:40] Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.
[5:41] “I am not looking for human praise.
[5:42] But I know what kind of people you are, and I know that you have no love for God in your hearts.
[5:43] I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.
[5:44] You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?
[5:45] Do not think, however, that I am the one who will accuse you to my Father. Moses, in whom you have put your hope, is the very one who will accuse you.
[5:46] If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
[5:47] But since you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?”