<p>3:11 <i>Truly, truly, I say to you: We speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen; and you do not welcome our witness</i>- Note how the Lord changes pronouns: &ldquo;<i>I</i> say to you, <i>We</i> speak&hellip;&rdquo;. He clearly identifies the preaching of His followers with His own witness. We are the branches, we make up the vine, we make up the Lord Jesus. Thus He spoke of &quot;we...&quot; to mean 'I...' here, such was the unity He felt between Himself and His men who witnessed for Him. He asked Saul &quot;Why persecutest thou <i>me</i>?&quot; (Acts 9:4), again identifying Himself with His people.&nbsp;But this leads us to wonder whether John is not also speaking here; for the Gospel records are transcripts of the original teaching of the Gospel by, e.g., John and his team. The only other time we encounter the term &quot;our witness&quot; is again in John's writings, describing his own witness as &quot;our witness&quot; in 3 Jn. 12. The &quot;you&quot; who are addressed as not receiving the witness would connect with those Jews referenced in the prologue, who saw the light but remained in the darkness through not accepting it. In this case, John is here addressing that category, the &quot;you who do not welcome / receive our witness&quot;, in the hope of converting even them. But primarily of course, the reference is to Nicodemus. He accepted that Jesus of Nazareth was clearly &quot;from God&quot; because of the miracles, but he did not really accept the witness of the Gospel- for it asked too much of him. And here we have a direct attack upon all nominal, surface level Christianity that refuses to openly come out for the One who lived and died for them. Quiet, private admission that He was &quot;of God&quot; is not enough; and this is a theme in John's Gospel. In his context, the tendency was to inwardly accept the truths of Jesus as God's prophet, but remain within the synagogue system acting as if they were Jews and not Christians.</p>