John 8:42

42. Moral proof that God is not their Father; if He were, they would love His Son. Comp. John 15:23 and ‘Every one that loveth Him that begat loveth Him also that is begotten of Him’ (1 John 5:1). Here, as in John 8:19; John 5:46; John 9:41; John 15:19; John 13:36, we have imperfects, not aorists: contrast John 4:10; John 11:21; John 11:32; John 14:28.

ἐκ. τ. θ. ἐξῆλθον κ. ἥκω. I came out from God and am here from God among you. See on John 16:28, the only other place where ἐκ τ. Θ. ἐξῆλθον occurs: it includes the Divine Generation of the Son. In the highest and fullest sense He is ‘of God:’ if they were God’s children they would recognise and love Him.

οὐδὲ γάρ. Proof of His Divine origin: for not even of Myself have I come. ‘So far from having come from any other than God, I have not even come of My own self-determination.’