<p>3:32 <i>What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness</i>- &quot;We&quot; testify what &quot;we&quot; have seen and heard (:11); and John later writes that &quot;we&quot;, he and his fellow disciples, testified to their converts what they had seen and heard (s.w. 1 Jn. 1:1,3). &quot;No one&quot; may mean 'very few'; the majority preferred the darkness. Or it could be that :32 is the recorded speech of John the Baptist, lamenting that although many had been baptized, not one of his disciples was accepting the testimony of what he had seen and heard at the Lord's baptism- the statement that Jesus of Nazareth was Messiah and Son of God. But John picks up these words later in 1 Jn. to show that in fact all was not lost, as John had felt in his depression. For John and the disciples had received his testimony, and passed it on to their converts. In this case, John the Baptist would be a true Elijah-type prophet, for he too felt that he alone was faithful, when there in fact another 7000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal. Indeed, the next verse :33 is John the Gospel writer's comment to the effect that actually, some did receive his witness.</p>