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King James Version

John 5:32

There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   John;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christ;   Divinity;   Divinity-Humanity;   Witness;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Receiving;   Scripture;   Sending and Those Sent;   Witness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Hour;   John, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children of God;   Death of Christ;   Discourse;   Error;   Ideas (Leading);   Mission;   Teaching of Jesus;   Truth (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
King James Version (1611)
There is another that beareth witnesse of me, & I know that the witnesse which he witnesseth of me, is true.
English Standard Version
There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
New American Standard Bible
"There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
New Century Version
But there is another who tells about me, and I know that the things he says about me are true.
Amplified Bible
"There is another [My Father] who testifies about Me, and I know [without any doubt] that His testimony on My behalf is true and valid.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
Legacy Standard Bible
There is another who bears witness about Me, and I know that the witness which He gives about Me is true.
Berean Standard Bible
There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.
Contemporary English Version
But there is someone else who speaks for me, and I know what he says is true.
Complete Jewish Bible
But there is someone else testifying on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he is making is valid —
Darby Translation
It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.
Easy-to-Read Version
But there is someone else who tells people about me, and I know that what he says about me is true.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I know that the witnesse, which he beareth of me, is true.
George Lamsa Translation
It is another one who testifies concerning me; and I know that the testimony which he testifies concerning me is true.
Good News Translation
But there is someone else who testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true.
Lexham English Bible
There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
Literal Translation
it is Another that witnesses concerning Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses concerning Me is true.
American Standard Version
It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
Bible in Basic English
There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.
Hebrew Names Version
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
International Standard Version
There is another who testifies about me, and I knowyou know">[fn] that the testimony he gives about me is true.Matthew 3:17; 17:5; John 8:18; 1 John 5:6-7,9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
there is another who witnesseth of me, and I know that true is his testimony which he hath witnessed of me.
Murdock Translation
There is another that beareth testimony concerning me; and I know that the testimony which he beareth concerning me is true.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I am sure that the witnesse which he beareth of me is true.
English Revised Version
It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
World English Bible
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
There is another that testifieth of me, and I know that the testimony which he testifieth of me is valid.
Weymouth's New Testament
There is Another who gives testimony concerning me, and I know that the testimony is true which He offers concerning me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
another is that berith witnessyng of me, and Y woot that his witnessyng is trewe, that he berith of me.
Update Bible Version
It is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.
Webster's Bible Translation
There is another that testifieth concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he beareth concerning me is true.
New English Translation
There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.
New King James Version
There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
New Living Translation
But someone else is also testifying about me, and I assure you that everything he says about me is true.
New Life Bible
There is another One Who tells about Me. I know the words He says about Me are true.
New Revised Standard
There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Another, it is, who beareth witness concerning me, - and I know that, true, is the witness which he witnesseth concerning me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
Revised Standard Version
there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ther is a nother that beareth witnes of me and I am sure that the witnes whiche he beareth of me is true.
Young's Literal Translation
another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is another that beareth wytnesse of me, and I am sure, that the wytnesse which he beareth of me, is true.
Mace New Testament (1729)
there is another who testifies of me, and I know that the testimony which he gives of me, is true.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There is someone else who has already said all of this is true.

Contextual Overview

31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

is another: John 5:36, John 5:37, John 1:33, John 8:17, John 8:18, John 12:28-30, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 17:5, Mark 1:11, Luke 3:22, 1 John 5:6-9

and I: John 12:50

Reciprocal: Matthew 17:12 - and they John 1:32 - I saw John 5:39 - they which John 7:28 - is true John 8:54 - If John 16:10 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 5:4
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:28
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 6:10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is another that beareth witness of me,.... Meaning not his Father, who is another, and a distinct person, from him, as the Spirit is another comforter; and both distinct testifiers from him, as well as of him. This is indeed the sense of some interpreters; but the Father is particularly mentioned in John 5:37; and the thread of the discourse, and the climax, or gradation, here used, show, that it is to be understood of "another man", as Nonnus paraphrases it; of John the Baptist, who is spoken of by name in the next verse, as a witness; and then a greater than he, the works of Christ, and then the Father:

and I know that the witness, which he witnesseth of me, is true; for John was now alive, though in prison, and continued to bear a testimony to Christ; and therefore he speaks of him as now bearing witness of him, and abiding by that which he had bore; and Christ knew not only that what he testified of him was true in itself, but that his testimony was a valid and authentic testimony, with the generality of the Jews; who held John to be a prophet, and looked upon him as a man of great probity and integrity, and whose word was to be taken: nor indeed could the sanhedrim, before whom Christ now was, object to his character, nor to him as a witness; nor ought they, since they themselves had so judged of him, as appears by their message to him, which Christ next fails not to take notice of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is another - That is, God. See John 5:36.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. There is another — God the Father, who, by his Spirit in your prophets, described my person, office, and miracles. You read these scriptures, and you cannot help seeing that they testify of me:- no person ever did answer the description there given, but myself; and I answer to that description in the fullest sense of the word. See John 5:39.

And I know — Instead of οιδα, I know, οιδατε, ye know, is the reading of the Codex Bezae, Armenian, and two of the Itala. Ye believe the Scriptures to be of God, and that he cannot lie; and yet ye will not believe in me, though these Scriptures have so clearly foretold and described me! It is not one of the least evils attending unbelief, that it acts not only in opposition to God, but it also acts inconsistently with itself. It receives the Scriptures in bulk, and acknowledges them to have come through Divine inspiration; and yet believes no part separately. With it the whole is true, but no part is true! The very unreasonableness of this conduct shows the principle to have come from beneath, were there no other evidences against it.


 
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