The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true — the Pharisees object to Jesus's testimony about himself, invoking the legal principle that a person's self-testimony cannot establish truth (echoing perhaps a rabbinic rule about witnesses). The objection assumes that only external witnesses can validate a claim, yet Jesus's entire Gospel has been about his self-revelation—his words and works bearing witness to his identity. The Pharisees' demand for external witnesses reveals their legal-institutional framework, which cannot accommodate the reality of divine self-disclosure.

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