<p>18:8 <em>Jesus answered: I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way</em>- So often we read that the Lord told the Jews that He was God's Son, but they refused to believe. The same words are found in 10:25: &quot;I told you and you believed not&quot;. And so it was now; the Lord had told them, shown them through the theophany that &quot;I am&quot;, but they refused to believe. He had set up a situation whereby they were going to do to Him what they knew was wrong, and they knew He realized that. And so He asks them for a small favour- to let the disciples go free. Again, His understanding of human psychology was magnificent. He so knew and knows us, and we can therefore in all ways be assured that His judgment will be just, and will take into total account every psychological nuance and factor when judging us.</p>