John Chapter 19 verse 35 Holy Bible
And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe.
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And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.
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And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe.
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And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
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He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
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and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 35. - He that hath seen hath borne, and is now bearing, herein and hereby, witness, and his witness is veritable - the highest and surest kind of witness, that of direct observation, staggering, confounding the ordinary sense, but proving that the Son of God died in his human body - and he knoweth, by his own inward experience, that he saith true things, that ye also may believe. A vehement effort has been made to sever this testimony from the evangelist, and refer it to a third person ἐκεῖνος, and suppose that it took place during John's absence from the cross (so Weisse, Schweizer, Hilgenfeld, and others); but, as Meyer, Godet, etc., affirm there is no necessity whatever for such an interpretation. Ἑκεινος is used of the subject of the sentence when it is clear from the context that the speaker himself is that subject (see John 9:37). Concerning a third person, the writer could not have written, "He knoweth that he saith true things, that ye may believe," but rather, "We know that he saith true things, that we may believe." But John here speaks strongly of his own invincible conviction, and, as in John 21:24, it is here given to induce a stronger faith on the part of his readers - not of himself and his readers in the supernatural death, in the signs that accompanied it, adapted to convince the bystanders of its marvel, and to fill up the prophetic picture, Hilgenfeld, with strange perversity, urges that the clever forger of the narrative "falls out of his part" and forgets himself (see Luthardt on 'Authorship of the Fourth Gospel,' p. 180). The symbolical and allegorical explanations are numerous. E.g. Toplady's well-known hymn, "Rock of Ages," contains the words - "Let the water and the blood,From thy riven side which flowed,Be of sin the double cure,Cleanse me from its guilt and power."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true.--Comp. John 1:7. It may be better to render the word here, as elsewhere, by "witness," in order that we may get the full force of its frequent recurrence. The writer speaks of himself in the third person (comp. Introduction, p. 375), laying stress upon the specially important fact that it was an eye-witness--"he that saw it"--who testified to the fact, and one who therefore knew it to be true. The word rendered "true" in this clause is the emphatic word for "ideally true," which is familiar to the readers of this Gospel. (Comp. Note on John 1:9.) It answers to the idea of what evidence should be, because it is the evidence of one who himself saw what he witnesses.And he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.--The witness was ideally true, and therefore the things witnessed were actually true. He cannot doubt this, and he testifies it in order that others may find in these truths ground for, and the confirmation of, their faith.
