<p>8:14- see on 1 Jn. 5:9.</p><p><i>Jesus answered and said to them: Even if I testify of myself, my witness is true. For I know from where I came and where I go; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I go to</i>- This appears to contradict His statement in 5:31 &quot;If I testify of myself, my witness is not true&quot; (the same words are used in the Greek). Likewise &quot;You do not know where I come from&quot; contradicts 7:28 &quot;You both know me, and know from where I am, and that I have not come of myself&quot;. Few commentators have engaged with these intentional paradoxes. I suggest the Lord is probing the fact that in their consciences, they knew He came from God. Their confidently proclaimed, quasi logical legalistic arguments were but a smokescreen to disguise their inner voice of conscience. So I suggest His sense is: 'Even if I am My own witness, My witness is true because both I and you know from where I came- from God'. &quot;You do not know where I come from&quot; is allusive to their own position expressed in 7:27: &quot;When Messiah comes, nobody knows from where He comes&quot;. Their claim to not know where He came from was in fact an admission that they accepted He was Messiah.</p>