John 5:38

38. ‘And hence it is that ye have no inner appropriation of the word’—seeing that ye have never received it either by hearing or vision. Ὁ λόγος is not a fresh testimony different from φωνή and εἶδος: all refer to the same—the witness of Scripture to the Messiah.

ὅτι ὃν�. Because whom He sent: see on John 1:33. Proof of the previous negation. One who had the word abiding in his heart could not reject Him to whom that word bears witness. 1 John 2:14; 1 John 2:24.

τούτῳ ὑμεῖς. In emphatic opposition. See on John 1:12; John 6:30; John 3:32.