Jean 5:34

34 Pour moi ce n'est pas d'un homme que je reçois le témoignage; 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 rend témoignage de moi, et je sais que le témoignage qu'il rend de moi est vrai.

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

34 Pour moi ce n'est pas d'un homme que je reçois le témoignage; mais je dis ceci, afin que vous soyez sauvés.

35 Jean était la lampe qui brûle et qui luit, et vous avez voulu vous réjouir une heure à sa lumière.

36 Moi, j'ai un témoignage plus grand que celui de Jean; car les oeuvres que le Père m'a donné d'accomplir, ces oeuvres mêmes que je fais, témoignent de moi que c'est le Père qui m'a envoyé.