<p>12:49 <i>For I spoke not from myself, but the Father that sent me, He has given me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak</i>- Just as the Lord's miracles were revealed to Him by the Father ahead of time (5:30), so were the words which He should teach. To reject the Lord's words was to therefore reject God's word; and as the prologue states, &quot;the word was God&quot;. To reject His words is to reject Him. Judaism was so deeply into theism, it was so God centred, that such ideas were repugnant to them. But this is what they were doing by rejecting His word as it was in His Son. The &quot;commandment&quot; is singular, and parallels the singular <i>logos</i> or word of :48.</p>