If simply being sent by God is what it means to come from heaven, then all the prophets are also bread from heaven.
The man who accepts Jesus’ testimony certifies that God is truthful [Joh 3:33-34]
Accepting Jesus’ words is saying God never lies
Jesus’ words are God’s words
If you don’t believe Jesus, you’re actually rejecting God
Jesus testifies to what He has seen and heard [Joh 3:32]. Unless one believes God dictated everything He said and did, this means that Jesus actually saw and heard things from God, before His incarnation.
God’s words aren’t just true information-wise, but His words carry power, and Jesus’ words are equal to God, because God gave Him the Spirit without measure
God’s words carry knowledge and power
Having the Spirit without measure—as Jesus has—means having access to unlimited knowledge and power.
In the same sermon where Jesus said He wouldn’t cast away those who came to him, He cast people away with His message [Joh 6:37].
This isn’t contradictory, what Jesus is saying is that those who TRULY seek Him, are those He won’t cast away. On the surface, many will come to Jesus—and He won’t send them away—not directly. He would however
put mechanisms in place that will weed them out. He didn’t drive away the people, He just preached a message that revealed that they weren’t truly seeking Him, and the proof of this was revealed in the fact that they left Him.
Jesus won’t ever reject those who are truly seeking Him.
A perfect man is one who seeks the honour of the one who sent him [Joh 7:18]
The Jews had an expectation that the Messiah would do many miracles [Joh 7:31].
The one who is to be judge is without sin. Sinlessness is required to be judge [Joh 8:7].
To deliver the world from the accuser—from sin, the accuser has to be driven away [Joh 8:10-11].
The accusers were driven away by Jesus pointing out their sins. In the same way, Jesus will call Satan’s sins to account and drive him out.
Jesus never explicitly said He was the Christ, yet He said to the Jews that He’s the same person He’s been claiming to be from the beginning [Joh 8:25].
This is the way of God. He doesn’t say things explicitly, He reveals enough for serious people to discern and make conclusions, but would hardly explicitly state things
God expects us to pay attention [Joh 42:18-20].
Jesus must continue to please the Father for the Father not to leave Him [Joh 8:29].
What did the Jews have in mind when they said they are Abraham’s seed and never in bondage to any man [Joh 8:33]?
The Jews were in bondage to Pharoah, oppressed by Midian, Philistia, etc.; sacked by Assyria and Babylon. How then do they say they’ve never been in bondage?
Note that they tie their claim to being Abraham’s children.
Jesus responds to them by saying they’re actually slaves who need freedom [Joh 8:35-36].
Jesus said that though they are members of God’s family, they won’t remain there forever, but that He—the Son—had power to give a place in the house.
According to Jesus’ judgment, those who don’t listen to God’s words are children of the devil [Joh 8:44-47].
God is going to set up those who don’t believe in the truth. He will send them a strong delusion that will make them commit very obvious sins [2Ths 2:10-12].
By saying they’re Abraham’s Children, the Jews were saying they were God’s children—members of His house.
We can deduce that one of the things Jesus wasn’t to achieve for us is permanence in God’s house [Joh 8:35-36].
Sin removes people from God’s house, but not immediately
Slavery to sin removes from the family—therefore sin isn’t a part of God’s house
Slavery to sin doesn’t stop from being a part of God’s family but will eventually remove one from the family—and it does this through death.
Cain wasn’t immediately removed from God’s presence in Eden, even thought he was already sinning.
Jesus’ working of miracles on the Sabbath [Joh 5; 9] wasn’t Him trying to provoke the Jews, but He was hinting to the fact that in the Sabbath of a thousand years (e., the Millennium), Israel would receive sight
and be delivered from paralysis.
To “give God the glory” is to tell the truth [Joh 9:24].
The same happened with Achan, when Joshua asked Achan to give God the glory.
The fold/sheep pen refers to nations [Joh 10:16].
Jesus didn’t decide to come by Himself, it was the Father who sent Him [Joh 10:18].
Jesus said He was sanctified and sent into the world by God, because [Joh 10:36], because they said He was just a man [Joh 10:33].
He was saying the reason He’s a man is because He was sent into the world.
The proof of Jesus’ sanctification is the power He has.