John 8:14-17 Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know from where I came, and where I go… The question indicates assumed ignorance of Christ's meaning, or a scornful fling at His ever imagining that God was His Father. How different to the child-like simplicity of Philip (John 14:8)! Their earthborn idea was, "If you are visible, can't we see something of your Father?" They ask about the Father, He replies as to Himself; and when asked about Himself He (vers. 25-27) replies concerning the Father. The primitive Christians were called atheists because they could not show their God. In every age the sneering challenge is repeated. At Orleans the Papists asked the Huguenots in the flames, "Where is now your God?" Mary Queen of Scots, having by French mercenaries forced Protestants into the bleak hills, cried, "Where is John Knox's God?" In Fotheringay Castle she had time to answer her own question. Parallel Verses KJV: Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. |
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