31 If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 38 You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent. 39 You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
31 “Mimi nikijishuhudia mwenyewe, ushuhuda wangu si kweli. 32 Yuko mwingine anayenishuhudia; nami najua ya kuwa ushuhuda wake anaonishuhudia ni kweli. 33 Ninyi mlituma watu kwa Yohana, naye akanishuhudia kweli. 34 Lakini mimi siupokei ushuhuda kwa wanadamu; walakini ninasema haya ili ninyi mpate kuokoka. 35 Yeye alikuwa taa iwakayo na kung’aa, nanyi mlipenda kuishangilia nuru yake kwa muda. 36 Lakini ushuhuda nilio nao mimi ni mkubwa kuliko ule wa Yohana; kwa kuwa zile kazi alizonipa Baba ili nizimalize, kazi hizo zenyewe ninazozitenda, zanishuhudia ya kwamba Baba amenituma. 37 Naye Baba aliyenipeleka amenishuhudia. Sauti yake hamkusikia wakati wo wote, 38 wala sura yake hamkuiona. Wala neno lake hamnalo likikaa ndani yenu, kwa kuwa ninyi hammwamini yule aliyetumwa na yeye. 39 Mwayachunguza maandiko, kwa sababu mnadhani kwamba ninyi mna uzima wa milele ndani yake; na hayo ndiyo yanayonishuhudia. 40 Wala hamtaki kuja kwangu mpate kuwa na uzima.”