Jean 5:34

34 Pour moi, je ne recherche point le témoignage de l'homme, mais je dis ceci, afin que vous soyez sauvés.

Jean 5:34 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:34

But I receive not testimony from man
He stood in no need of an human testimony, nor did he rest the truth of his deity and divine sonship thereon: he had other and greater testimonies to produce; as he needed not that any man should testify of man to him, he had no need that any man should testify of him; and if the testimony of men was received, as this of John could not well be objected to, the testimony of God is greater, and which he had; and therefore should not have mentioned John's for his own sake:

but these things I say, that ye might be saved;
that is, he produced this testimony of John, who was a person of so great a character among them, that they might be induced by it to believe in him as the Messiah; and so be saved from that ruin and destruction, that would come upon their nation, city, and temple, for their rejection and disbelief of him.

Jean 5:34 In-Context

32 Il y en a un autre qui me rend témoignage, et je sais que le témoignage qu'il me rend est digne de foi.

33 Vous avez envoyé vers Jean, et il a rendu témoignage à la vérité.

34 Pour moi, je ne recherche point le témoignage de l'homme, mais je dis ceci, afin que vous soyez sauvés.

35 Jean était la lampe qui brûle, et qui luit, et vous avez voulu, pour un moment, vous réjouir à sa lumière.

36 Mais moi, j'ai un témoignage plus grand que celui de Jean; car les ouvres que mon Père m'a donné d'accomplir, ces œuvres même que je fais, rendent de moi ce témoignage, que mon Père m'a envoyé.