JOHN 10:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.”
Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father — Jesus makes faith contingent on evidence: if He does not perform the Father's works, there is no obligation to believe in Him. His works are the visible manifestation of His identity and mission, and they authenticate His claims.
Church Fathers on John 10:37
At this speech, I and My Father are one, the Jews could not restrain their rage, but ran to take up stones, after their hardhearted way: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, show their impious hatred by the stones, i.e. the words they cast at Him; as if they would drag Him down again from His throne to the cross.
Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I showed you from My Father, strewing that they had no just reason for their anger.
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