Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If I glorify myself (ean egw docasw emauton). Third-class condition with ean and first aorist active subjunctive (or future active indicative) of docazw.
It is my Father that glorifieth me (estin o pathr mou o docazwn me). The position and accent of estin mean: "Actually my Father is the one," etc.
Of whom ye say (on umeiv legete). The accusative of the person (on) with legete is regular (cf. John 10:36).
Your God (qeov umwn). So Aleph B D and apparently correct, though A C L W Delta Theta have hmwn (our God). The oti can be taken as recitative (direct quotation, hmwn, our) or declarative (indirect, that, and so umwn). The Jews claimed God as their peculiar national God as they had said in John 8:41. So Jesus turns this confession and claim against them.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 8:54:
John 1:14
John 11:4
Hebrews 5:5
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