—another passage:

“My Father is more exalted and greater than I.”

He also said:

“As my Father has commanded me, so I act; I am the vine and my Father is the vinedresser.”

John likewise states:

“Just as the Father possesses life in His very essence, He has granted the Son to possess life in his own person.”

He then commented:

“The one who bestows is, without doubt, distinct from the recipient, and the agent is different from the object acted upon.”

He continued:

“The Messiah said in the Gospel of John: ‘If I alone bore witness on my own behalf to the truth of my claim, my testimony would be invalid. Yet another bears witness for me: I testify concerning myself, and my Father who sent me testifies for me.’”

And the Messiah said to the Children of