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I have many things, etc.
The connection of thought seems to be as follows: “I being such as my words show me to be, I must declare the whole message of Him by virtue of my essential union with whom I speak. Many things I have to declare and judge, and you may turn a deaf ear to them; nevertheless, I must speak the whole truth, the things which I have heard from Him who sent me and who is true.”
I speak to the world (λέγω εἰς τὸν κοσμὸν)
The best texts read λαλῶ, which emphasizes not what Christ says (which would be λέγω), but the fact that He speaks. See on Mat 28:18. The use of the preposition εἰς here is peculiar. Literally, “I speak into the world;” so that my words may reach and spread through the world. See for a similar construction 1Th 2:9; 1Th 4:8; Heb 2:3. So Sophocles, where Electra says, κήρυσσέ μ' εἰς ἅπαντας proclaim me to all: so that the report of me may reach all ears (“Electra,” 606).