8:28 Then Jesus said, 1 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, 2 and I do nothing on my own initiative, 3 but I speak just what the Father taught me. 4 8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, 5 because I always do those things that please him.”
1 tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all
2 tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.
3 tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”
4 tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”
5 tn That is, “he has not abandoned me.”