You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'
      [1.] He is the beloved Son of the Father (John 3:35; John 3:35): The Father loveth the Son. The prophets were faithful as servants, but Christ as a Son; they were employed as servants, but Christ beloved as a son, always his delight,Proverbs 8:30. The Father was well pleased in him; not only he did love him, but he doth love him; he continued his love to him even in his estate of humiliation, loved him never the less for his poverty and sufferings.