John 5:30

Verse 30. Of mine own self. See Joh 5:19. The Messiah, the Mediator, does nothing without the concurrence and the authority of God. Whatever he does, he does according to the will of God. As I hear I judge. To hear expresses the condition of one who is commissioned or instructed. Thus (Joh 8:26), "I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him;" Joh 8:18, "As the father hath taught me, I speak those things." Jesus here represents himself as commissioned, taught, or sent of God. When he says, "as I hear," he refers to those things which the Father had showed him Joh 5:20--that is, he came to communicate the will of God; to show to man what God wished man to know. I judge.