Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on John/Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John/Book VI/Chapter 9

9.&#160; John I. 22.

&#8220;They said therefore unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us.&#160; What sayest thou of thyself?&#8221;&#160; This speech of the emissaries amounts to the following:&#160; We had a surmise what you were and came to learn if it was so, but now we know that you are not that.&#160; It remains for us, therefore, to hear your account of yourself, so that we may report your answer to those who sent us.