JOHN 10:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father — if the works are genuine expressions of God's power (healing the blind, raising the dead, etc.), then these works provide grounds for believing, even if personal faith in Jesus' words is withheld. The works evidence the Father-Son unity: the Father dwelling in the Son and the Son dwelling in the Father (meinō, abide or dwell) indicates an intimate, inseparable relationship. The works both demonstrate and manifest this indwelling unity.
Church Fathers on John 10:38
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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