Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Comment: As a surgeon I used different words and different concepts to talk to my patient and my peers about the same situation. Here we see something similar. Jesus is talking about His Father, the First Person of the Trinity, who sent Him, Jesus, to bring the light giving message from Heaven. The Pharisees are on a different wavelength and see Jesus as making up His teaching without any proof that He has the authority to do so. Jesus claims that God is His Father and God’s proof of His message is that He fulfils the scripture. The Pharisees reply that they have no idea who his Father is; Certainly not God and they doubted Joseph! Jesus said to them that they didn’t know God and they didn’t know who He really was. The Pharisees and Jesus were arguing from two very different starting points.
Prayer: Open my eyes to see Your truth as You Creator God have revealed it!
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