John 5:44 BSB — MannaFest

John 5:44

How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

KJV

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

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Commentary

1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 3 (444)

He accuses the Pharisees of love of rule and of prizing honours from men, covertly hinting that they do exceeding ill, in unadvisedly putting the diseases of their own soul upon God Who can by no means know disease. Next He says that they, fast held by vain glory, thereby lose the fairest prize, meaning faith in Him: whereof Paul too speaketh clearly to us: for if (says he) I were yet pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

While ye receive honour - That is, while ye seek the praise of men rather than the praise of God. At the feast of pentecost, kept in commemoration of the giving the law from Mount Sinai, their sermons used to be full of the praises of the law, and of the people to whom it was given.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

How can ye believe, which receive honor, etc. - The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity, and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men! This is the ruin of millions.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Πῶς	Pōs	How	G4459 →
δύνασθε	dunasthe	are able	G1410 →
ὑμεῖς	humeis	you yourselves	G4771 →
πιστεῦσαι	pisteusai	to believe	G4100 →
δόξαν	doxan	glory	G1391 →
παρὰ	para	from	G3844 →
ἀλλήλων	allēlōn	one another	G240 →
λαμβάνοντες	lambanontes	receiving	G2983 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
δόξαν	doxan	glory	G1391 →
τὴν	tēn	that [is]	G3588 →
παρὰ	para	from	G3844 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
μόνου	monou	only	G3441 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
ζητεῖτε;¶	zēteite	you seek?	G2212 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
leads to
- Romans 12:10
  Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
- Galatians 5:26
  Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
- Ephesians 5:21
  Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
- Ephesians 4:2
  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
- 1 Peter 5:5
  Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Through
Romans 2:29
No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 30:6
  The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Philippians 3:3
  For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
Through
John 12:43
For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
leads to
- Luke 16:15
  So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.