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Joh 7:28. Ἔκραξεν, cried) with great earnestness, for the salvation of men; also on account of the great number of His auditors. Christ cried by no means often; Mat 12:19, “He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear His voice in the streets:” For which reason the cries, which He did utter, had a weighty cause in each instance. See presently after Joh 7:37, “In the last day-of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, If any man thirst, let him come to Me and drink;” Joh 11:43, “He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth;” Joh 12:44, “Jesus cried and said, “He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me;” Heb 5:7, “When He had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto Him that was able to save Him from death;” Mat 27:50, “Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.”-κἀμέ, both me) There are persons, who suppose irony to be employed here: but you will never find an instance of our Lord having employed irony. The speech of the Jews had had two parts, this man and the Christ: in reply to which at Joh 7:27, the speech of our Lord has also two parts, the “both Me” “and [I am not come] of Myself.” The former makes a concession, and leaves the question of knowledge concerning Jesus and His birth, regarded from an external point of view, in some measure where he found it; for His wont is never Himself to bring it forward; comp. 2Co 5:16, “Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more;” but He denies that they have a just [correct] knowledge of Himself as sent by the Father; comp. Joh 7:33, etc., “I go unto Him that sent Me;” and Joh 7:36, “What manner of saving is this that He said, Ye shall seek Me and shall not find Me, and where I am, thither ye cannot come;” chap. Joh 8:14, “Ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.”-καὶ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ) and yet I am not come of Myself, as ye suppose.-ἀληθινός, true) This truth is of more consequence than that truly; “Do the rulers know truly that this is the Christ?”-ὅν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε, whom ye know not) We must understand after this the clause which follows, that I am from Him, and that He has sent Me. The very demand of the Jews concerning Christ, expressed at Joh 7:27, was realized in Jesus, “When Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence He is.”