What would happen if Jesus testified on His own behalf?
Who was one of the other (human) witnesses of Jesus?
Does Jesus need the testimony of humans? Why does He mention them?
How does Jesus describe John? Were the people excited about him?
Who is the greater witness than John? Why?
Has anyone personally seen God?
Why don’t the people have God’s word living in them either?
Where do the people think they can find eternal life?
But what really can be found in the Scriptures?
What were the people unwilling to do?
Who does Jesus not receive honor from?
What are the people lacking?
Whose name does Jesus come in?
Do they receive Him?
Who do they receive?
If you seek the honor of another besides God, what can you not do?
Will Jesus accuse us before the Father?
Who accuses the people? Why?
Who did Moses really write about?

Thought Questions

Name the witnesses Jesus speaks of for him in this section.
How is God the Father a witness of Jesus when we haven’t seen the Father or heard His voice? (Hint: verse 38). Do you study and have faith in the Old Testament, even books like Leviticus?
What can we learn from God about His Son through the writings of books like Leviticus, which Moses wrote? Or is it all outdated and irrelevant to us today? What does verse 46 tell us? Was Jesus only talking to the Jews here, or all of us as well?
Name some things that you have read in the writings of Moses that you think are speaking of Jesus–His government, justice, and character. Can you think of some things that even describe, in metaphor, His life and death on earth?
Which do you think is more reliable: the witness of God through all of the writings of the Old Testament, or the witness of one person speaking for himself (verse 43)?

My prayer is:
that I would be open to studying the Old Testament more, and believe the words of Moses and the other prophets;
and to read the Old Testament with the understanding that it speaks of Jesus as a testimony to Him.