And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,
37. And the Father who hath sent me. To limit this statement, as some have done, “Aucuns s’abusent.” to the voice which was heard at his baptism, (Matthew 3:17,) is a mistake; for he says in the past tense, that the Father (μεμαρτύρηκε) testified, in order to show that he did not come forward as an unknown person, because the Father had long ago distinguished...
In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I. He sets aside his own testimony of himself (Joh 5:31): "If I bear witness of myself, though it is infallibly true (Joh 8:14), yet, according to the common rule of judgment among men, you will not...
Commenting on John 5:31-47
And the Father himself, which hath sent me,.... Not only the works he gave him to do, and which he did, but he himself in person: hath borne witness of me; not only in the writings of Moses, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, but by an audible articulate voice from heaven, at the time of Christ's baptism, Mat 3:17; which was a full...