John 9:29

that God spake Literally, that God hath spoken, i.e. that Moses received a revelation which still remains. This is a frequent meaning of the perfect tense to express the permanent result of a past action. Thus the frequent formula -it is written" is strictly -it has been written," or -it standswritten:" i.e. it once was written, and the writing still remains. But this is perhaps one of those cases where the Greek perfect is best represented by the English aorist (see on John 8:29; John 8:10 for the converse).

we know not from whence he is We know not what commission He has received, nor who has sent Him. Comp. John 8:14 and contrast John 7:27. Once more He is compared with Moses, as in the synagogue at Capernaum (John 6:31-32).