=15, 16. Ye judge according to the flesh.= They therefore rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah, because he did not come with the earthly pomp, or bring the earthly deliverance, which they had expected.--=I judge no one.= Yet his fan is in his hand; and even while he lived he was sifting the wheat from the tares. He judges not; the world is self-judged and self-condemned. Every soul that rejects the light doth thereby write its own condemnation. “Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19).--=Yet if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.= Comp. ch. 5:30. The Spirit of the Father, given without measure to Christ, makes his spiritual judgments absolutely without error. In the measure in which this spirit is received and followed by the disciple, it similarly makes the disciple’s judgments true. See Matt. 16:19, note; John 20:22, 23. 17 It is also written[316] in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. [316] Deut. 17:6; 19:15. 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father[317] that sent me beareth witness of me. [317] ch. 5:37. 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye[318] neither know me, nor my Father: if[319] ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. [318] verse 55; chaps. 16:3; 17:25. [319] ch. 14:7, 9. 20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury,[320] as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for[321], his hour was not yet come. [320] Mark 12:41. [321] ch. 7:30.