Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:23

23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath, I am from above: ye are of this world, I am not of this world .

Ye are not onely of an Earthly extraction, Creatures of the Earth, not descended from Heaven, as I am; but also of Earthly Spirits and Principles: You savour nothing that is sublime and Spiritual, and therefore you do not understand me: I tell you, I am not of this World. My Original is not from it, nor am I to determine my being in it. I shall dye, but I shall rise again from the dead, and Ascend into Heaven, where you cannot come. Still our Saviour asserts his Divine Nature; and the stress of all, he saith, lyeth there; their unbelief of which was the cause of all their Disputings and Errors. He had given them the greatest Evidence of it imaginable in the works which he had done in their sight, which were not onely above the Power of Nature, but such as God had never Authorized, or enabled any Creature to do; yet they being destitute of supernatural Grace, did not believe in him: And they were inexcusable, because that Grace was denyed them for their wilful Corruption and wickedness, which they might have avoided by the use of that common Grace which was not denyed them.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.31.