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NASB | John 5:37 "And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 5:37 "And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form [His majesty and greatness--what He is like]. |
Bible Question: Does this mean that all previous hearings of God's voice and His O.T. appearings were accually from God the Son? What about God's voice at Jesus's baptism, and at the transfiguration? |
Bible Answer: This verse is part of a lengthy discourse between Jesus and the Jewish leaders who were persecuting Him for healing on the Sabbath (verse 16 of John 5).Clearly their hearts were hardened against Jesus and all He claimed to be. Now let's parse the two sentences that comprise verse 37. The first statement is: "And the Father who sent Me, He has born witness of Me." Jesus is clearly saying that it was the Father who, at His baptism for example, said "This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased." Now the second statement, apart from the first, would seem to say that at no time has God's voice been heard by human ears. But we know that this cannot be the right way to view this second statement of Jesus. God spoke many times and in many ways to the Old Testament prophets and Jesus is not saying that the Father did not. What is being said is that the self-righteous Jews are so spiritually deaf and spiritually blinded that they "have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form." And then Jesus continues to develop his case against their hypocrisy and spiritual poverty when he says in the next sentence (verse 38), "You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent." Jesus was so fond of using the expression, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." In this passage Jesus makes it quite clear that these Jewish leaders had never heard the voice of God, even though their Creator had provided them with ears to hear. And what a lesson that is for us to ponder in our own hearts! --Hank |
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