ἔκραξεν. The word implies public teaching (John 7:28; John 7:37).

οὐ πιστ. εἰς ἐμέ. His belief does not end there; it must include more. This saying does not occur in the previous discourses; but in John 5:36 and John 8:19 we have a similar thought. Jesus came as His Father’s ambassador, and an ambassador has no meaning apart from the sovereign who sends him. Not only is it impossible to accept the one without the other, but to accept the representative is to accept not him in his own personality but the prince whom he personates. These words are, therefore, to be taken quite literally. Only here and John 14:1 does S. John use πιστεύειν εἰς, so frequent of believing on Jesus, of believing on the Father.

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