Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. New Living Translation (This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you also may continue to believe.) English Standard Version He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. Berean Standard Bible The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. Berean Literal Bible And the one having seen has borne witness, and his testimony is true. And He knows that he is speaking truth, so that you also might believe. King James Bible And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. New King James Version And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe. New American Standard Bible And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. NASB 1995 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. NASB 1977 And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. Legacy Standard Bible And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. Amplified Bible And he (John, the eyewitness) who has seen it has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also [who read this] may believe. Christian Standard Bible He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth. Holman Christian Standard Bible He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he who saw testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he spoke the truth so that you also may believe. Contemporary English Version We know this is true, because it was told by someone who saw it happen. Now you can have faith too. Douay-Rheims Bible And he that saw it, hath given testimony, and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also may believe. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation The one who saw this is an eyewitness. What he says is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth so that you, too, will believe. Good News Translation The one who saw this happen has spoken of it, so that you also may believe. What he said is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth.) International Standard Version The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe, Literal Standard Version and he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true, and that one has known that he speaks true things, that you also may believe. Majority Standard Bible The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. New American Bible An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may [come to] believe. NET Bible And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe. New Revised Standard Version (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.) New Heart English Bible He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. Webster's Bible Translation And he that saw it, testified, and his testimony is true: and he knoweth that he speaketh truth, that ye may believe. Weymouth New Testament This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you also may believe. World English Bible He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. Young's Literal Translation 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jesus' Side is Pierced…34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. 35 The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 36Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”… Cross References John 15:27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name. John 21:24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who has written them down. And we know that his testimony is true. 1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands--this is the Word of life. 1 John 1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us. 1 John 1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. 3 John 1:12 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also testify for him, and you know that our testimony is true. Treasury of Scripture And he that saw it bore record, and his record is true: and he knows that he said true, that you might believe. he that. John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! John 21:24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: that ye. John 11:15,42 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him… John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. John 17:20,21 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; … Jump to Previous Bare Bears Belief Believe Borne Eye-Witness Order Record Speaketh Statement Telling Tells Testified Testifies Testimony Truth True. WitnessJump to Next Bare Bears Belief Believe Borne Eye-Witness Order Record Speaketh Statement Telling Tells Testified Testifies Testimony Truth True. WitnessJohn 19 1. Jesus is scourged, crowned with thorns, and beaten.4. Pilate is desirous to release him, 15. but being overcome with the outrage of the crowd, he delivers him to be crucified. 23. They cast lots for his garments. 25. He commends his mother to John. 28. He dies. 31. His side is pierced. 38. He is buried by Joseph and Nicodemus. (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. Verse 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, Greek The [one who]ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. saw [it] ἑωρακὼς (heōrakōs) Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear. has testified to this, μεμαρτύρηκεν (memartyrēken) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3140: To witness, bear witness, give evidence, testify, give a good report. From martus; to be a witness, i.e. Testify. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. testimony μαρτυρία (martyria) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 3141: Witness, evidence, testimony, reputation. From martus; evidence given. is ἐστιν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. true. ἀληθινὴ (alēthinē) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 228: True (lit: made of truth), real, genuine. From alethes; truthful. He ἐκεῖνος (ekeinos) Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed. knows οἶδεν (oiden) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate. that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. he is telling λέγει (legei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. [the] truth, ἀληθῆ (alēthē) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 227: Unconcealed, true, true in fact, worthy of credit, truthful. TRUE. so that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. you ὑμεῖς (hymeis) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. also καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. may believe. πιστεύητε (pisteuēte) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust. Links John 19:35 NIVJohn 19:35 NLT John 19:35 ESV John 19:35 NASB John 19:35 KJV John 19:35 BibleApps.com John 19:35 Biblia Paralela John 19:35 Chinese Bible John 19:35 French Bible John 19:35 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 19:35 He who has seen has testified (Jhn Jo Jn) |
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