John 12:42-44

International Standard Version

⁴² Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue. ⁴³ For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

Judgment by Jesus’ Word

⁴⁴ Then Jesus said loudly, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also^[a] in the one who sent me.