Joh 7:28-29 | RWP | e4.org | And I am not come of myself ( κα απ' εμαυτου ουκ εληλυθα ). Κα here="and yet." Jesus repeats the claim of verse and also in ; ; ; . Whom ye know not ( ον υμεις ουκ οιδατε ). Jesus passes by a controversy over the piece of popular theology to point out their ignorance of God the Father who sent him. He tersely agrees that they know something of him. Jesus says of these Jews that they know not God as in , .

‏ John 7:28-29

And I am not come of myself ( κα απ' εμαυτου ουκ εληλυθα ). Κα here="and yet." Jesus repeats the claim of verse 17 and also in 5:30; 8:28; 12:49; 14:10.

Whom ye know not ( ον υμεις ουκ οιδατε ). Jesus passes by a controversy over the piece of popular theology to point out their ignorance of God the Father who sent him. He tersely agrees that they know something of him. Jesus says of these Jews that they know not God as in 8:19, 55.

I know him ( εγω οιδα αυτον ). In contrast to the ignorance of these people. See the same words in 8:55 and the same claim in 17:25; Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22 (the Johannine aerolite). "These three words contain the unique claim of Jesus, which is pressed all through the chapters of controversy with the Jews" (Bernard). Jesus is the Interpreter of God to men (Joh 1:18).

And he sent me ( κακεινος με απεστειλεν ). First aorist active indicative of αποστελλω, the very verb used of Jesus when he sent forth the twelve (Mt 10:5) and used by Jesus again of himself in Joh 17:3. He is the Father's Apostle to men.