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.
36. “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds I am now doing – testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37. And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,
38. nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.
39. You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
40. but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.