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30. οἴδαμεν ὄτι οἶδας. We know that Thou knowest (comp. 2Co 12:2-3, where the A.V. is similarly capricious). Christ had spoken in the future tense (Joh 16:25): they speak in the present. They feel that His gracious promise is already coming true. He had shewn them that He had read their hearts (Joh 16:19); like Nathanael (Joh 1:50) and the Samaritan woman (Joh 4:29; Joh 4:39), and S. Thomas (Joh 20:28), they conclude that He knows all.
ἐν τούτῳ. Herein: see on Joh 4:37. His all-embracing knowledge is that in which their faith has root. The ὅτι is probably ‘that,’ not ‘because,’ as the context and S. John’s usage shew: Joh 13:35; 1Jn 2:3; 1Jn 2:5; 1Jn 3:19; 1Jn 3:24; 1Jn 5:2. The disciples’ ἀπὸ Θεοῦ implies a less intimate union between the Father and Jesus than either παρὰ τ. π. (Joh 16:27) or ἐκ. τ. π. (Joh 16:28). Their views of Christ are still very imperfect.