John 8:16
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.
Webster's Revision
And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
World English Bible
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
Barnes's John 8:16 Bible Commentary
And yet, if I judge - If I should express my judgment of men or things. He was not limited, nor forbidden to do it, nor restrained by any fear that his judgment would be erroneous.
My judgment is true - Is worthy to be regarded.
For I am not alone - I concur with the Father who hath sent me. His judgment you admit would be right, and my judgment would accord with his. He was commissioned by his Father, and his judgment would coincide with all that God had purposed or revealed. This was shown by the evidence that God gave that he had sent him into the world.
Wesley's John 8:16 Bible Commentary
8:16 I am not alone - No more in judging, than in testifying: but I and the Father that sent me - His Father is in him, and he is in the Father, John 14:10,11; and so the Father is no more alone without the Son, than the Son is without the Father, Prov 8:22,23,30. His Father and he are not one and another God, but one God, (though distinct persons,) and so inseparable from each other. And though the Son came from the Father, to assume human nature, and perform his office as the Messiah upon earth, as God is sometimes said to come from heaven, for particular manifestations of himself; yet Christ did not leave the Father, nor the Father leave him, any more than God leaves heaven when he is said to come down to the earth.
