26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. …
Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-30)Christ here gives fair warning to the careless unbelieving Jews to consider what would be the consequence of their infidelity, that they might prevent it before it was too late; for he spoke words of terror as well as words of grace. Observe here, I. The wrath threatened (John 8:21): Jesus said again unto them that which might be likely to do them good. He continued to teach, in kindness to those…
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