[271] John 1:17; Gal. 3:19. [272] Rom. 3:10-19. [273] ch. 5:16, 18; Matt. 12:14. =18, 19. He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory.= _From_ (ἀπό) represents the remote cause; _out of_ (ἐκ) represents the more immediate cause. The former refers to what is general, the latter to what is special. See _Rob. Lex._, ἀπό. Every Christian teacher must speak _out of_ himself, _i. e._, out of his own experience of truth internally possessed and become a part of his nature; but no Christian teacher may speak, _from_ himself, _i. e._, of his own notions and by his own authority. The inward experience out of which he speaks is powerful only as it is derived from the Spirit of God. Egotism is the natural expression of him who speaks from himself, and has not the rhetorical skill to conceal the inherent weakness.--=But he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.= This is a general proposition. In so far as any one seeks the divine glory he is preserved both from error and from unrighteousness (Rom. 8:1, 2; 1 John 1:5, 7; 3:6). Christ is the only one who is absolutely true, and in whom is no unrighteousness, because he is the only one in whom there is no self-seeking.--=Did not Moses give you the law=, etc. The connection is well given by Alford: “There is a close connection with the foregoing. The will to do his will was to be the great key to a true appreciation of his teaching; but of this there was no example among _them_; and therefore it was that they were no fair judges of the teaching, but bitter opponents and persecutors of Jesus, of whom, had they been anxious to fulfil the law, they would have been earnest and humble disciples” (ch. 5:46).--=Why go ye about to kill me?= The reference is to the purposed assassination at a previous visit to Jerusalem (ch. 5:18), a purpose from which the Pharisees had evidently not relented (ch. 7:1). 20 The people answered and said,[274] Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? [274] ch. 8:48. 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. 22 Moses[275] therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but[276] of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. [275] Lev. 12:3. [276] Gen. 17:10. 23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because[277] I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? [277] ch. 5:8. 24 Judge[278] not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. [278] Deut. 1:16, 17.