“"I receive not honor from men." That is, "I need it not": "My nature," He saith, "is not of such a kind as to need the honor which is from men, for if the sun can receive no addition from the light of a candle, much farther am I from needing the honor which is from men." "Why then," asks some one, "sayest thou these t…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 41
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42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
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40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
41I receive not honour from men.
— John 5:42 —
43I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?