predetermined mind.--=Ye will not come unto me.= Though the Scriptures which they searched so diligently contained testimony to a suffering and saving Messiah, they would not come to him. They were as one who reads a guide-board, but goes not whither it points.--=That ye might have life.= The object of Christ’s coming was to give life; the object of coming to Christ is to receive life (ch. 10:10). The kind of life imparted by him and to be received by us is indicated in Ephes. 2:10; Gal. 5:22, 23. 41 I receive not honour from[200] men. [200] verse 34; 1 Thess. 2:6. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. =41, 42. I receive not honor from men.= It is true that at his name every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess him to be Lord, but _to the glory of God the Father_ (Phil. 2:10, 11). As the Christian lets his light shine that men may glorify Christ, so Christ’s light glorifies the Father. Moreover, this honor is not derived from men. What was said on the meaning of the original on ver. 34 (see note there) is equally applicable here. From men (παρά) indicates the original source. Christ’s glory comes _from_ the Father (Phil. 2:9); human voices do but echo the divine voice.--=I know you.= As no man ever knows his fellow-men. For illustration of Christ’s divine insight into the hearts of men, see Matt. 9:4; John 2:24; Heb. 4:13.--=That ye have not the love of God in you.= They who were condemning Christ for a violation of the ceremonial law of the Sabbath were themselves guilty of violating the first and great commandment Of the law (Deut. 6:5). 43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which[201] receive honour one of another, and seek[202] not the honour that _cometh_ from God only? [201] ch. 12:43. [202] Rom. 2:10.