Ye have sent (υμεις απεσταλκατε). Emphatic use of υμεις (ye) and perfect active indicative of αποστελλω, official and permanent fa…

Ye sent unto John. See John 1:19.

He bare witness, and so forth. This testimony of John ought to have satisfied t…

Ye sent . . .—Both verbs are perfects. Better, therefore, You have sent; He has borne witness. The pronoun “ye” …

They were great Bible-readers, great students of the letter, but they would not come to Christ; and therefore the Scriptures themselves became a to…

St. John Chrysostom: He now brings proof for those high declarations about Himself. He answers an objection: If I bear wit…

“You have sent to John” is obviously a reference to the delegation sent from the Jewish rulers to John the Baptist when he was preaching in the Jud…

You sent to John. Before producing the testimony of God, he presses them with the answer of John, from which they could not honor…

You sent to John
The sanhedrim at Jerusalem made a deputation of priests and Levites to him, to know who he was, whe…

Our Lord returns to his declaration of the entire agreement between the Father and the Son, and declared himself the Son of God. He had higher test…

1. Having taught about the life-giving power of the Son, Jesus now confirms it. First, he confirms what he had said about the excellence of …