Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:28

28 Then said Jesus unto them, VVhen ye have lift up the Son of man , then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of my self , but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things .

It is your unhappiness, that while I am alive, and Preaching the Gospel to you, inviting you to Repentance, and Faith in me, as the true Messiah: You will not believe me to be indeed what I am; but you shall lift me upon the Cross (for that is meant by lifting up, as Chap. 12.32. and 3.14.) and when that time cometh, you shall know that I am

the Light of the World, as v. 12. For after that, the Gospel began to be Preached to all Nations. Or that I am the true Messiah, he whom the Father hath sent into the World. Some of you shall then know it by those Signs and Wonders, that shall attend my Death and Resurrection, and to your shame and confusion: others of you shall know it to your Eternal Joy and Salvation; believing on me then, whom you will not now acknowledg:

and that what I have done, I have onely done by Commission from my Father, not of my Self:

and that what I have taught, I have had in Commission from my Father to Teach.

Marginal references: Chap. 5.19, 30.; Chap. 3.11.