He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
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Gill's Exposition
I seek not mine own glory,.... In his doctrine, or in his miracles; which showed that he was no impostor, but a true, faithful, and upright person; and though he was so very much reproached and…
Barnes' Notes
He that is of God - He that loves, fears, and honors God. Heareth God’s words - Listens to, or attends to the doctrines or commandments of God, as a child who loves his parent will regard and obey his…
Adam Clarke
He that is of God - Meaning probably himself: he who came from God, or was born of God - heareth the words of God - has the constant inspiration of his Spirit, speaks nothing but truth, and cannot…
Here Christ and the Jews are still at issue; he sets himself to convince and convert them, while they still set themselves to contradict and oppose him.
I. He here traces the difference between his…
Cambridge Bible
Christ answers His own question and at the same time gives a final disproof of their claim to call God their father (Joh 8:8).
heareth God's words Christ here assumes, what He elsewhere maintains…
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