A more expanded version of this verse says, “If any man is willing to do His will (God’s pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God, or whether I am speaking from Myself and My own accord and on My own authority.” We read in verse 15b – 16: “How is it that this Man (Jesus) has learning (so versed in the sacred Scriptures and in Theology) when He has never studied? Jesus answered them by saying, “My teaching is not My own, but His Who sent Me.” John 8: 28: says, “Jesus therefore said, “When you lift up the Son of Man (Jesus), then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.”1 John 2: 23: says, “Whoever denies the Son (Jesus) does not have the Father (God); the one who confesses the Son Has the Father also.” It is very important to note that Jesus, as in these verses, always reverted to His coming, His words, and His actions, as being those He received directly from the Father, making Himself the Messenger and Fulfillment of the Father’s Divine Will for those who would believe. We also receive great wisdom from Jesus for discernment in John 7: 18 + 24, as He says, “He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He (Jesus) who is seeking the Glory of the One Who sent…
