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Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
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Belief in Jesus is Belief in God
Commentators unanimously explain that Jesus's statement, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me," is not a contradiction. Rather, it means that faith doesn't stop with Jesus but extends directly to God the Father. Scholars like Albert Barnes and the Expositor's Bible Commentary highlight the inseparable union between the Father and the Son, meaning to trust one is to trust the other.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jesus cried and said. John does not say where or when this was; it is probable, however, that it was a continuation of t…
Cried and said (εκραξεν κα ειπεν). First aorist active indicative of κραζω, to cry aloud, and second aorist active of defective ve…
19th Century
Anglican
Jesus cried and said.—Compare Notes on John 7:28; John 7:37. This forbids our understanding these words as any…
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Baptist
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am …
Jesus equated belief in him with belief in God (cf. John 14:1). The Father and the Son are inseparable; though they are two personalitie…
16th Century
Protestant
And Jesus cried. The purpose of Christ, in this statement, is to encourage his followers to a proper and unshaken steadfastness of faith; …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Jesus cried and said Upon this occasion, on account of the prevailing hardness and unbelief of the Jewish nation, an…
Our Lord publicly proclaimed that everyone who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent h…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Evangelist described the failure of those who did not believe at all. Here he explains the failure of those who believed in secret …
