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Joh_5:32. Another is He who bears witness of me. This is understood either of John the Baptist (Chrysostom, Theophylact, Nonnus, Euthymius Zigabenus, Erasmus, Grotius, Paulus, Baumgarten Crusius, de Wette, Ewald) or of God (Cyril, Augustine, Bede, Rupertius, Beza, Aretius, Cornelius a Lapide, Calovius, Bengel, Kuinoel, Lücke, Tholuck, Olshausen, Maier, Luthardt, Lange, Hengstenberg, Brückner, Baeumlein, Godet). The latter is the right reference; for Jesus Himself, Joh_5:34, does not attach importance to John’s witness, but rather lays claim, Joh_5:36-37, only to the higher, the divine witness.
καὶ οἶδα , ὅτι , κ . τ . λ .] not a feeble assurance concerning God (de Wette’s objection), but all the weightier from its simplicity, to which the very form of the expression is adapted ( ἡ μαρτυρία , ἣν μαρτυρεῖ περὶ ἐμοῦ ), and, moreover, far too solemn for the Baptist’s testimony. On μαρτυρίαν μαρτυρεῖν , comp. Isa_3:11-12; Isa_3:25; Plato, Eryx. p. 399 B; Dem. 1131. 4.