New English Translation

John 5:30-35 New English Translation (NET)

30. I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

31. “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

32. There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

33. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

34. (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

35. He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.