Johannes 5:41

41 Ich nehme nicht Ehre von Menschen;

Johannes 5:41 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:41

I receive not honour from men.
] Not but that honour from men was due to Christ; and it becomes all men to honour him, as they do the Father; and he does receive honour and glory, and blessing from his saints, by their praying to him, praising him, believing in him, and serving him; but his sense is, that in asserting his equality with the Father, and in producing the testimonies he did, in proof of it, his view was not to obtain honour and applause among men, but to vindicate himself, and glorify his Father: nor did he say what he had just now said, about men's coming to him, with any such intention, to gather a party to him, to set up himself as a temporal king, in great pomp and splendour, and receive worldly homage and honour from men, as his subjects; for his kingdom was not of this world, and coming and subjection to him were things of a spiritual nature.

Johannes 5:41 In-Context

39 Ihr erforschet die Schriften, denn ihr meinet, in ihnen ewiges Leben zu haben, und sie sind es, die von mir zeugen;

40 und ihr wollt nicht zu mir kommen, auf daß ihr Leben habet.

41 Ich nehme nicht Ehre von Menschen;

42 sondern ich kenne euch, daß ihr die Liebe Gottes nicht in euch habt.

43 Ich bin in dem Namen meines Vaters gekommen, und ihr nehmet mich nicht auf; wenn ein anderer in seinem eigenen Namen kommt, den werdet ihr aufnehmen.