NOTES for Ин 7:1-30

Here we have an example of how certain knowledge and convictions can cloud our eyes and distort the “right” view of life—the view filled with the Holy Spirit, which sees everything happening around us and judges it properly. We see people whose certainty that Christ's place of origin was unknown hid Jesus from them. Having stopped at this point and pulled the “handbrake,” they no longer see anything else. They neither hear His words nor become convinced by looking at His works. This is precisely why Jesus tells them, “He who sent Me is true, and Him you do not know.” For knowing the Lord presupposes carrying out His will in the Spirit, and Christ was sent to earth by the Father's will for the redemption of sins and the conversion and sanctification of many.