26. Multa habeo de vobis 26. Many things I have to loqui, et iudicare: sed qui me speak and to judge of you. But misit, verax est: et ego quae he that sent me is true; and audivi ab eo, haec loquor in the things I have heard of mundo. him, these same I speak in the world. 26. Some explain thus: I have many things to say of you, and to condemn in you, _but with this only will I charge you now_, namely, that you are guilty of incredulity, since He who sent Me is true (truthful), and I speak His words, and yet you refuse to believe in Me. But the ellipsis here is not sufficiently obvious; and, hence, we prefer to understand thus: I have many things, &c., but My judgments will be just, and such as cannot be gainsaid. 27. Et non cognoverunt quia 27. And they understood not Patrem eius dicebat Deum. that he called God his father. 27. The Greek is: _They knew not that He spoke to them of the Father_. 28. Dixit ergo eis Iesus: Cum 28. Jesus therefore said to exaltaveritis Filium hominis, them: When you shall have tunc cognoscetis quia ego sum, lifted up the son of man, then et a meipso facio nihil, sed shall you know that I am he, sicut docuit me Pater, haec and that I do nothing of loquor: myself, but as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak. 28. *Lifted up.* The reference is to Christ’s crucifixion as is clear from xii. 32, 33. The substance of Christ’s prediction is, that after His death they will come to recognise Him as God. We know how truly this prediction was fulfilled, not merely in the centurion and his soldiers (Matt. xxvii. 54), and in the crowd that returned from Calvary, striking their breasts (Luke xxiii. 48), but all along from that time through the preaching of the Apostles. On the Father’s teaching the Son, see above on v. 19, 20. 29. Et qui me misit, mecum est 29. And he that sent me is et non reliquit me solum, quia with me, and he hath not left ego quae placita sunt ei, me alone: for I do always the facio semper. things that please him. 29. *For.* “The word seems to be used as in Luke vii. 47, to indicate the sign of the truth of the statement made, and not to give the ground of the fact stated” (Westc.). 30. Haec illo loquente, multi 30. When he spoke these crediderunt in eum. things, many believed in him. 31. Dicebat ergo Iesus ad eos, 31. Then Jesus said to those qui crediderunt ei Iudaeos: Si Jews who believed him: If you vos manseritis in sermone meo, continue in my word, you shall vere discipuli mei eritis: be my disciples indeed. 31. Christ here lays down the test by which His disciples are to be known. It is only when we accept His words, and conform our works thereto, that we can be truly said to be His disciples.