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We in John 3:11

From: Collected Writings By: Frederick George Patterson

John 3:11

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Q. “We speak,” etc. (John 3:11¹¹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (John 3:11)). Whom does the Lord associate with Himself to make “we”?

A. There is nothing peculiar in the use of the plural here. The Lord speaks as personating the divine teaching of which He was the exponent, using the “we” in contrast with that other of which Nicodemus was the representative, as He refers to by “Ye receive not,” etc. The “we” and the “ye” stand in contrast in the same verse, though the Lord, as one person, spoke personally to Nicodemus as another.

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