The Jewish leaders had sent a high level delegation to investigate John the Baptist. ‘Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
[Doesn’t the Old Testament contain main instances of human prophets testifying to the coming of Christ? How can the Lord say that he does not accept the testimony of men when he ordained that testimony in his word? Christ is concerned to teach that the reality of his divine Sonship cannot rest on a mere human testimony or else God has become dependent on man. The nature of truth insists that it must always be the other way round – human testimony must rest on the far greater divine testimony in order to establish it. Only the Father could give a witness that was fully sufficient and that Christ rested entirely on.]