30 Yeshua continued explaining to the religious leaders, “I don’t do anything in isolation. Whenever I hear from him, only then do I judge and my judgement is correct and impartial because I’m not imposing my desires, but the desire of the one who sent me.

31 “If I just testified about myself, my testimony would not be correct or even valid. 32 However it’s another one that’s testifying about me, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33 [ref]You sent people out to question Yohan and his testimony was true. 34 but I don’t even need any testimony that comes from people, because I am teaching you how to be saved. 35 Yohan was a bright and shining light and you appreciated it for a short time. 36 But I have a stronger testimony than Yohan’s because the father has entrusted works to me to complete, and which I’m already doing and which clearly show that the father sent me here. 37 [ref]And since he sent me, he himself has testified about me. You people have never listened to his voice, nor have you ever seen him! 38 And his way of thinking is obviously not in your minds, because you don’t believe the one that he sent. 39 You look in the Jewish scriptures because you suppose that they’ll lead you to eternal life. Those very scriptures testify about me coming, 40 yet you refuse to come to me in order to receive life.

41 “I’m not getting any praise from people 42 but I do know that you people don’t actually love God in your hearts. 43 I have come with my father’s authority and you don’t accept me, but if someone came claiming their own authority, you’d happily accept them. 44 How could you possibly believe when you just accept acclamations from each other, but don’t even seek praise from the only God. 45 But don’t be assuming that I’ll be accusing you all in front of the father. No, the one who’ll accuse you is Moses because he’s the one that you’re hoping to please. 46 The trouble is that if you actually believed what Moses wrote, you would believe me, because Moses was writing about me. 47 But since you don’t really believe his writings, you’re not at all likely to believe me.”