“And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.”
And I seek not mine own glory: as there is one that seeketh and judgeth — Jesus states he does not seek his own glory; rather, there is 'one that seeketh and judgeth' (perhaps the Father, or God in general). Jesus's mission is not self-promotion but the Father's glory and judgment. By not defending himself, he demonstrates this commitment: he is indifferent to honor or disgrace, focused only on the Father's will. This is the pattern established in 7:18: true teaching seeks not the teacher's glory but God's.
Church Fathers on John 8:50
Whenever our Lord said any thing of lofty meaning, the Jews in their insensibility set it down madness: Then answered the Jews and said to Him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?
But how, we may ask, when the Samaritans denied a future life, and the immortality of the soul, could they dare to call our Savior, Who had preached so much on the resurrection and the judgment, a Samaritan? Perhaps they only mean a general rebuke to Him for teaching, what they did not approve of.
The Samaritans were hated by the Jews; they lived in the land that formerly belonged to the ten tribes, who had been carried away.
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