{"id":641,"date":"2009-08-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=641"},"modified":"2022-01-11T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:26:50","slug":"john-536-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"John 5:36-38"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">37 And the Father Himself, which hath sent Me, hath borne witness of Me. Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">38 And ye have not His word abiding in you: for whom He hath sent, Him ye believe not.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Christ performed miracles, which should have convinced the Jews that God had sent Him, as it did Nicodemus. (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=574\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 3:2<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=752\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 10:25<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<h3>The Father gave direct witness of the Son three times: (1) His baptism \u2014 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2703\">Matthew 3:16-17<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">(2) <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the Mount of Transfiguration<\/span> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3129\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Matthew 17:5<\/span><\/a> (3) Before His crucifixion \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=793\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 12:28<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The Jewish leaders had never heard nor seen God&#8217;s witness, but they had seen and heard the Son (<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1618\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hebrews 1:2<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>) and they still didn&#8217;t believe.<\/h3>\n<h3>They read the Scriptures, but didn&#8217;t have it in their hearts (v.38).<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me. 37 And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-gospel-of-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}