John 8:25

The Jewes do captiously reply to his discourse, enquiring who he was that had laid so absolute a necessity upon them to beleeve on him. He answers, that he was even the same he had declared to them since the beginning that he began to preach; to wit, the Sonne of God and Saviour of the world, And by this he declares that their unbeliefe would be so much the more hainous, as it could not slow from ignorance, they being so often informed of the truth. Doctrine, 1. As it is the lot of Christ and his servants, to have their doctrine, and threatnings in the name of the Lord, entertained with reproach; so also will their persons be mistaken and set at naught; for, such was Christs lot, they scofte at his doctrine, ver. 22. and now they do in contempt enquire, who art thou? their blinde eyes not discerning his glory through the vail of his humiliation. And herein his people must resolve to share with him, 1 Joh 3 1 2. As the truth of God is, in all ages and tunes, unchangably the same; So it is the duty of the messengers thereof, to be constant in preaching of it, and not to change their note, whatever contradiction and opposition they meet with; Therefore doth he, notwithstanding all their malice, give this answer, even the same that I said unto you from the beginning, as not minding to change his note. 3. Albeit men may hear much which they sleight and forget; Yet the Lord will not forget to reckon with them according to what they have heard, whatever use they have made of it; Therefore he doth not expressely answer to their question, but remits them to what he had said, to let them see that all of it would be laid on their account, to aggravate their obstinate unbeliefe.