Jesus bears witness of Himself.

Witnessing plays a severe role in controversial matters—the more credible the witness, the more his testimony gains in importance and necessity.

John the Apostle recorded a significant testimony of Christ that we should know and not bypass in our faith. Jesus said to the Jews, “If I bear witness of myself alone, my testimony is not true. But there is someone else who testifies about me, and I know that his testimony about me is true” (Jn. 5:31-32).

Jesus is doing the right thing in acting like the Messiah, rightly so according to the laws of the day. In Jewish law, a judgment could only take effect when two witnesses attested to the facts of the offense. This regulation was known to the Jews from the book of Moses, which we call Deuteronomy. It says: “One witness will be of no value in any guilt or crime committed; on the testimony of two or three witnesses, the decision will depend” (Deut. 19:15).
Jesus knows and recognizes these regulations as legal standards, and he attempts to prove that he is sent from God through several testimonies:
1. the testimony of John the Baptist
2. by his works and miracles
3. 2. the witnesses of Jesus, the miracles of the Jews, the testimonies of Jesus, the testimonies of Jesus, the
4. by God himself, who is his crowning witness

The works that Jesus does are the works of God, and the Father’s voice calls for faith in Jesus Christ, as anyone unbiased knows.

From this, it follows that everything that is of the nature of authority among the Jews, such as the prophets, the Law of Moses, John the Baptist, and even God Himself, testifies that Jesus Christ is God’s ambassador. Here we must remember that he who rejects such testimony is outside the law; his judgment is false and invalid. Centuries and now millennia have changed nothing for some.
Even in our environment, some people try to place Jesus in some group they have created, only to not have to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their God and Lord. So they say of Christ that he did not exist at all, which is denied by Josephus Flavius, the Jewish historian, Pliny, and others who accurately captured in their works the time that we believers also say Christ lived among us.
Others want to assign Jesus to the philosophers, others to the reformers. Some consider Jesus a politician and a man like us in general, but with a higher intellect for his time. But we know that Jesus cannot be classified anywhere. He is not a social agitator nor a dreamy thinker. He is God’s ambassador; he is the agent of salvation. Therefore, his words apply to us, too, that we should believe and be saved.

In Turin, Italy, in 1976, Vitoria Messori’s book was published by the SEI (Societa Editrice Internazionale) under the title H y p o t e s of J e s s I o n . By October 1988, this book had already been published in 18 languages and 33 editions in Italian. The number of copies has reached one and a half million. Few Catholic books have achieved such success in such a short time. It engages in a severe and severe evaluation of the critical hypotheses about the “mysterious Palestinian.”
He concludes that of all the possible and impossible hypotheses about Jesus, the one from the Gospels that is correct is the hypothesis that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ the Son of God. In the book, the author describes his honest and unbiased research. He convincingly shows that all the hypotheses about Jesus have already been told, that all the objections have already been refuted, but they are being raised and refuted again. He has pointed out that some conjectures do not deserve a “scientific hypothesis.”

For us, the teachings of Christ are the teachings that show us the way to eternal bliss. With St. Paul, let us continue to repeat today, “I know whom I have believed, and I am sure.” (2 Tim. 1:12). The great certainty that can endure all things for Christ’s sake that can move mountains, and this is for us the testimony that Jesus speaks of Himself in the Gospel.

The testimony of Christ is unshakable when we have given ourselves wholly and entirely to Him.