Discovery BoxJohn 7:16 
Context7:16 So Jesus replied, 1 “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 2
John 7:28
Context7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, 3 cried out, 4 “You both know me and know where I come from! 5 And I have not come on my own initiative, 6 but the one who sent me 7 is true. You do not know him, 8
1 tn Grk “So Jesus answered and said to them.”
2 tn The phrase “the one who sent me” refers to God.
3 tn Grk “the temple.”
4 tn Grk “Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying.”
5 sn You both know me and know where I come from! Jesus’ response while teaching in the temple is difficult – it appears to concede too much understanding to his opponents. It is best to take the words as irony: “So you know me and know where I am from, do you?” On the physical, literal level, they did know where he was from: Nazareth of Galilee (at least they thought they knew). But on another deeper (spiritual) level, they did not: He came from heaven, from the Father. Jesus insisted that he has not come on his own initiative (cf. 5:37), but at the bidding of the Father who sent him.
6 tn Grk “And I have not come from myself.”
7 tn The phrase “the one who sent me” refers to God.
8 tn Grk “the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.”
