I want to hear of it. Hey there, I'm so glad you stopped by for this podcast. We hope so much we can serve you today.

I want you to hear verse 25 in the NAS, the New American Standard.

I have it down for those of you in class, it says.

And because he did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man,

for he himself knew what was in a man he did not need anyone to bear witness

our niv says give testimony alison what does the king james say testimony i think it does as well

n as takes it uh to say bear witness and there's a reason why i want you to hear it with those two words

it's all coming from the same greek word and it means all of those things that you see or both of those things we see translated. But here's what I want to pitch out to you. This is what I felt like the Lord was revealing to me. Pitching out this question, one very obvious answer and one not so obvious, why didn't Christ need anyone to bear witness concerning another? Well, it tells us he did not

need any man's testimony about man, for he knew it was in a man. So first of all, we know because he

knows and we don't. Because he knows and we don't. Now, why in the world does this come up here?

I think, what would cause John to say that right there?

I wonder if in that moment they'd been around so many people.

There were probably important people showing some interest in Christ at this point.

Nicodemus is going to come to him.

Wham, in just no time at all as it opens up in John chapter 3.

I wonder if some of the disciples were going now, okay, let me tell you about him.

May have been both positive and negative.

Let me take me, you know what?

You don't need to tell me about nothing.

Because I know exactly what is in a man.

I know things you couldn't possibly know, because he knows and we do not know. But here's

what really got me. When I began looking at those words in the NAS and again, they are absolutely

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