Joh 8:15-16 | RWP | e4.org | After the flesh ( κατα την σαρκα ). According to the standards of the flesh ( ). The Baptist had said: "There stands one among you whom ye know not" ( ). The Light of the World had come, but they loved darkness rather than light ( ), because the god of this age had blinded their thoughts so that they could not see the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God ( ).

‏ John 8:15-16

After the flesh ( κατα την σαρκα ). According to the standards of the flesh (2Co 5:16). The Baptist had said: "There stands one among you whom ye know not" (Joh 1:26). The Light of the World had come, but they loved darkness rather than light (3:19), because the god of this age had blinded their thoughts so that they could not see the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God (2Co 4:4).

Yea and if I judge ( κα εαν κρινω δε εγω ). "And even if I pass judgment." Condition of third class again.

True (althin). See 1:9 for αληθινος, genuine, soundly based (cf. δικαια in 5:30), "satisfying our perfect conception" (Westcott), not merely true ( αληθες ) in the particular facts (verse 14).

For I am not alone ( οτ μονος ουκ ειμ ). Jesus now takes up the technical criticism in verse 13 after justifying his right to speak concerning himself.

But I and the Father that sent me ( αλλ εγω κα ο πεμψας με πατηρ ). See 16:32 for a like statement about the Father being with Christ. It is not certain that πατηρ is genuine here (omitted by Aleph D, but in B L W), but the Father is clearly meant as in 7:18, 33. Jesus gives the Father as the second witness.