They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

 He meant something which affected himself. In his heart the inner voice of God spoke, and that voice left him in no doubt as to who he was and what he was sent to do. Jesus did not regard himself as having himself chosen his task. His inner conviction was that God had sent him into the world to live and to die for men. 