Here again we have a series of simple sentences, the precise meaning of which and their connexion with one another cannot be determined with certainty. See on John 7:33. The following seems to be the drift of the verse: -I have very much to speak concerning you, very much to blame. But I keep to My immediate task of speaking to the world those truths which before the world was I heard from God that cannot lie, Who sent Me:" i.e. Christ will not desist from teaching Divine truth in order to blame the Jews. It is as the Truth and the Light that He appears in these discourses.

which I have heard of him Better, what I heard from Him, these things I speak unto the world, i.e. precisely these and nothing else. Comp. John 8:39.

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