John 8:12 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.” 13 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” 14 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. 15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 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.
As we have seen, this Gospel is a mix of miracles and messages which distinguish Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior of the world. John began the book with the disclaimer than many had not received Him for Who He really is. That was still the case here. He had come from God His Father and knew what He had been sent to do; these leaders were not from God, and had no clue that Jesus had been sent by Him, even though the messages and miracles bore witness to that. The two sides go on to have a war of words about who their father was, and he was not God. They were also not living like sons of Abraham their physical ancestor. They were living as children of the devil, refusing to seek after or live for God. It all goes to raise the question: "Spiritually speaking, who is your daddy?"
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