Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
Christ is no private man giving testimony for His own advantage. He proceeds from God, not from the world, and His doctrine is divine and not subject to human judgment. The Jews ought to have submitted to God's only ambassador promised them in the Law, regardless of His humble flesh.
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Here Christ affirms His Godhead and praises the Father as His witness. Before He spoke to their limited grasp of His humanity alone; now He stands and declares Himself divine, needing no confirmation but His Father's agreement with Him.
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Amid the blazing golden lamps of the treasury at tabernacles, when all Jerusalem danced in joy, Christ proclaims in the most absolute sense: I am the Light of the World. The Baptist was a burning lamp sent to witness to that Light; but He alone is the true Light that lightens every man coming into the world, the Messiah promised of old.
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Commenting on John 8:12-59