John 3:11 Commentary and Bible Study

We are only saying the things – he is speaking perhaps of John the Baptist as well of himself, the two noticeable preachers at this point of the narrative – that have stood in front of your eyes for years, things that we know and that we have proved. ‘And ye receive not our witness.’ That goes back to the beginning of the Gospel of John. ‘They came unto his own, and his own received not.’ Nicodemus and the Pharisees are among those who had not received this testimony by faith.