John 8:16

John 8:16

14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but ^ayou do not know where I come from and where I am going.

15 ^aYou judge according to the flesh; ^bI judge no one.

16 And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for ^aI am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me.

17 ^aIt is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

18 I am One who bears witness of Myself, and ^athe Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.”

19 Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, ^a“You know neither Me nor My Father. ^bIf you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”

20 These words Jesus spoke in ^athe treasury, as He taught in the temple; and ^bno one laid hands on Him, for ^cHis hour had not yet come.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, etc.—Ye not only form your carnal and warped judgments of Me, but are bent on carrying them into effect; I, though I form and utter My judgment of you, am not here to carry this into execution—that is reserved to a future day; yet the judgment I now pronounce and the witness I now bear is not Mine only as ye suppose, but His also that sent Me. (See on John 5:31-32). And these are the two witnesses to any fact which your law requires.

John 8:13-19

bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true—How does He meet this specious cavil? Not by disputing the wholesome human maxim that "self-praise is no praise," but by affirming that He was an exception to the rule, or rather, that it had no application to Him.

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