OUR FATHER ALSO BORE WITNESS TO HIS SON

John chapter 8 verses 12 -  20 records a confrontion in the treasury building in Jerusalem between Jesus and the Pharisees.

The pharisees were challenging Jesusˋ claims about Himself saying that they were invalid because they were they were not corroborated by the witness of others.

Jesus countered them by telling them that the law required two witness for a matter to be validated and Jesus declared to them that He and His Father were two and that was sufficient.

The Lord Jesus was telling the religious authorities that because they had no knowledge of the God they claimed to represent, they were unable to see that He was the One who was sent by the Father.

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

13 The Pharisees therefore said to Him, “You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true.”

14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from and where I am going. 15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me. 17 It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.”

19 Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”

20 These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one laid hands on Him, for His hour had not yet come.

The Lord Jesusˋ statements perplexed and angered the Pharisees further but even though He was within their grasp in their own territory in Jerusalem, they could not touch Him because the time of His sacrifice had not arrived.

Amen.

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