John 3:11

Jesus testifies to what he certainly knows and has seen, yet his hearers refuse his witness. He speaks with firsthand, divine authority.

Cross-references · 29

• John 8:38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
• 1 Jn 5:6–12This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.
• John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• John 14:24Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
• John 12:49I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
• John 8:14Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
• John 7:16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
• John 8:28–29So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
• Acts 28:23–27So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
• Isa 65:2All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
• Isa 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• John 3:32–34He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
• Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
• John 1:11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
• John 5:31–40If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Isa 55:4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
• Acts 22:18and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’
• John 12:37–38Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.
• John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
• Rev 3:14To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation.
• John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
• John 3:5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
• John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
• Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
• Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

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