11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)Christ, having set the happiness of heaven before them as the end, here shows them himself as the way to it, and tells them that they were better acquainted both with the end they were to aim at and with the way they were to walk in than they thought they were: You know , that is, 1. “You may know; it is none of the secret things which belong not to you, but one of the things revealed ; you need n…
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