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You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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Commentators emphasize that Christian witness is a divine-human partnership. The Holy Spirit testifies supernaturally (v. 26), and believers testify experientially (v. 27). As one scholar puts it, the relationship is reciprocal: the disciples' witness is powerless without the Spirit, and the Spirit's witness is restricted without the disciples' testimony. Believers are privileged to be 'co-witnesses' with the Holy Spirit.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ye also shall bear witness. You shall be witnesses to the world to urge upon them the evidences that the Lord Jesus is the Messiah.
And ye also bear witness (κα υμεις δε μαρτυρειτε). Present active indicative or imperative (do ye bear witness), same form of μαρτ…
19th Century
Anglican
And you also shall bear witness.—The tense is present, and you also bear witness; or, and you also are witne…
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Baptist
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
May we all bear witness insofar as we have been wit…
In response to this attitude of hatred, there must be a continuing witness to the love and grace of Christ. The last two verses of this chapter def…
16th Century
Protestant
And you also bear testimony. Christ means that the testimony of the Spirit will not be of such a nature that the apostles will ha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall also bear witness That is, of Christ; of all the things he did in Jerusalem, and in the land of the Je…
The blessed Spirit will maintain the cause of Christ in the world, despite the opposition it faces. Believers, taught and encouraged by His influen…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, when our Lord said that the Jews would persecute His disciples, He gave the reason that they did not know the One who sent Hi…
