John 7:28

     28, 29. cried Jesus—in a louder tone, and more solemn, witnessing style than usual.

      Ye both, &c.—that is, "Yes, ye know both Myself and My local parentage, and (yet) I am not come of Myself."

      but he that sent me is true, &c.—Probably the meaning is, "He that sent Me is the only real Sender of any one."

John 8:26

     26, 27. I have many things to say and to judge of you; but he that sent me is true, &c.—that is, I could, and at the fitting time, will say and judge many things of you (referring perhaps to the work of the Spirit which is for judgment as well as salvation, Joh 16:8), but what I do say is just the message My Father hath given Me to deliver.

John 8:55

     55. I shall be a liar like unto you—now rising to the summit of holy, naked severity, thereby to draw this long dialogue to a head.

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