³² He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.^(A)

¹¹ “Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you^[a] do not receive our testimony.^(A)

¹⁵ I do not call you servants^[a] any longer, because the servant^[b] does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

¹¹ He came to what was his own,^[a] and his own people did not accept him.

²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”^(A)

² God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?^{(A) 3} “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” ⁴ But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”^{(B) 5} So, too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. ⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.^[a](C)

¹⁶ But not all have obeyed the good news,^[a] for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed^[b] our message?”^{(A) 17} So faith^[c] comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.^[d]

¹⁸ But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have:

¹⁹ Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,

²⁰ Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,

²¹ But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”^(E)

²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.^(A)

³³ Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified^[a] this, that God is true.^(A)