<p>16:30- see on Jn. 15:16-19.</p><p><em>Now we are sure that you know all things, and do not need anyone to question you. By this we believe you came from God</em>- They do not say to the effect that 'Ah, now we understand everything'. They realized they did not, but were now satisfied that the Lord did understand and know all things. And here we have comfort to us in our questioning of Him; the comfort is not that we know the answers, but that there are answers, and He holds them. &quot;By this we believe you came from God&quot; may be reported as another example of a confessional formula; the hint is to readers and listeners to make the same confession in their hearts.</p><p>The words of the Lord Jesus were the words which He had 'heard' from the Father. But this doesn't mean that He was a mere fax machine, relaying literal words which the Father whispered in His ear to a listening world. When the disciples finally grasped something of the real measure of Jesus, they gasped: &quot;You do not even need that a person ask you questions&quot; (Jn. 16:30). They had previously treated Jesus as a Rabbi, of whom questions were asked by his disciples and then cleverly answered by him. They finally perceived that here was more than a Jewish Rabbi. They came to that conclusion, they imply, not by asking Him questions comprised of words and hearing the cleverly ordered words that comprised His answers. The words He spoke and manifested were of an altogether higher quality and nature than mere lexical items strung together. Here was none other than the Son of God, the Word made flesh in person.</p>