John 7:28

Ye both know me. Jesus did not deny the facts concerning His earthly parentage. Nor did He stop to argue their point of theology. Instead He expostulated with them concerning their ignorance of God, and again asserted that He had not come on His own authority (see on vs. 15, 16). He was known to the people in human form, but He wished them to know also concerning His divinity and Sonship with God.

True. Gr. alethinos (see on eh. 1 :9).

Whom ye know not. The Jews had a greatly distorted picture of the character of the heavenly Father. Centuries of stubbornness and rebellion had prevented them from seeing God as He really was, a kind and merciful Father. They thought of Him as cruel and exacting, and in many respects not too different from the heathen deities worshiped by neighboring nations. Through Jesus, God had chosen to correct this misconception. As men beheld Him whom God had sent they were to obtain a picture of what the Father was like (see on ch. 1:18). Jesus declared, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (ch. 14:9). In rejecting Jesus, the Jews rejected the Father’s revelation of Himself and so continued on in their ignorance of the Father.