Although “He [Jesus] came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.” (John 1:11), there were some who did believe. To ‘believe in His name’ means ‘to trust Him as a person knowing the integrity of His character and the authority of His commission’. Some people did that. They received Him as a man, they received His words as God’s, and, as they got to know Him, they validated who He was in the dynamic of their relationship with Him.