<p>8:25 <i>They replied to him: Who are you? Jesus said to them: Even that which I have spoken to you from the beginning</i>- Most of His messages are hidden in His lifestyle and in the way He treated people. He left it to those who watched Him to see how the word was being made flesh in Him. In this sense Jesus' words really were eminently deeds. He was the word made flesh. When the Jews asked Him &ldquo;Who art you?&rdquo;, He replied: &ldquo;How is it that I even speak to you at all? I have many things to say&hellip;When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he&rdquo; (Jn. 8:25,28 RVmg.). Jesus didn&rsquo;t have to speak anything about Himself; He was the word made flesh, His deeds and above all His death would declare who He was. This self-proclamation that didn&rsquo;t require any self-advertisement or even self-explanation was so wonderfully unique to Jesus. Thus Peter says that a wife should convert her husband without needing to speak a word- and there we have something of the same idea.&nbsp;</p><p>We have here yet another allusion to the prologue. The word spoken from &quot;the beginning&quot; was the person of the Lord Jesus as exhibited and spoken from the beginning of His ministry- not of the present creation.</p>