<p>5:8 <i>For there are three who testify, the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three agree in one</i>- As noted on :7, this alludes to how John personally had recorded the testimony of spirit, water and blood in his account of the crucifixion and the outflow of water and blood from the Lord (Jn. 19:34,35).</p><p>Beholding the cross and the water and blood that flowed from it, John struggled with the inadequacy of human language: &ldquo;He that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true&quot; (Jn. 19:35). Years later he described himself, in allusion to this, as he &ldquo;who bare record in the past tense of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ&quot; (Rev. 1:2). He had earlier commented here that the Spirit, water and blood of the cross bore witness. John seems to be saying that the Lord&rsquo;s final death which he had witnessed was the word of God, the testimony of Jesus Christ. And in Rev. 1:2 (see note there) he is saying that as he had been a faithful witness to this, so now he would be of that further revelation he had now seen in the Apocalypse.</p>