While their minds were balancing between doubt and faith, Jesus took up their thoughts and answered them thus: “Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but He that sent me is true, whom ye know not. But I know him; for I am from him, and he hath sent me.” They claimed a knowledge of what the origin of Christ should be, while they were in reality utterly ignorant of it, and were locked in spiritual blindness. If they had lived in accordance with the will of the Father, they would have known his Son when he was manifested to them. {2SP 342.2}

Medens de således vaklede mellem tvivl og tro, imødegik Jesus deres tanker og svarede dem således: "Ja, I kender mig og ved, hvorfra jeg er! og dog er jeg ikke kommen af mig selv, men han, der har sendt mig, er sanddru, han, som I ikke kender. Jeg kender ham; thi fra ham er jeg kommen, og han har udsendt mig." (28.,29.vers) De påstod, at de vidste, hvor Jesus kom fra, medens de i virkeligheden var aldeles uvidende derom og var indhyllede i åndeligt mørke. Dersom de havde levet i overensstemmelse med Faderens vilje, så ville de have kendt hans Søn, da han åbenbaredes for dem.