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Joh 5:42. Ἔγνωκα ὑμᾶς, I have you in my knowledge [I know you]) By this ray of light He penetrates the hearts of His hearers. He means this: I know [novi, οἶδα] the Father, Joh 5:32, “There is another that beareth witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesseth of Me is true;” and I have known [cognovi, I am aware] that you are strangers to Him. Jesus spake this with great compassion. It is not for My sake, but for yours, He saith, I grieve.-ἀγάπην, the love) by which I am recognised as the Son of the Father’s love, Joh 5:20, “the Father loveth the Son,” and which would teach you to seek glory from God alone. [Things divine are not distinguished from things alien to God, save only by this love: Joh 5:43, “I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”-V. g.]-ἐν ἐαυτοῖς, in yourselves) This expression has an emphasis, and contains the cause why the Jews need to be sent back [referred] to the men, who in Scripture testify concerning Christ.