John 10:37 (WEB)
If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
Catechism · 3
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 10:31-38.
Jesus and Israel
“In presenting with divine authority the definitive interpretation of the Law, Jesus found himself confronted by certain teachers of the Law who did not accept his interpretation of the Law, guaranteed though it was by the divine signs that accompanied it.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 37-38; 12:37.
“Jesus asked the religious authorities of Jerusalem to believe in him because of the Father's works which he accomplished.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 10:36-38.
Fathers and councils · 28
Tertullian
“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, even if ye will not believe me, still believe the works; and know that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”” — editor's note: Vers. 34–38.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“‘Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from My Father, for which of those works do ye stone Me?” — editor's note: John x. 32–38
Read the whole comment“Whence also He cried to the unbelieving Jews; “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not.” — editor's note: John x. 37, sq.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…and glory and worship being due to the Only-begotten God as the Author of life, Who doeth the works of the Father, as the Lord Himself saith in the Gospel, and Who falls short of no excellence in all knowledge of that which is good, I know not how they have been so perverted by malignity and jealousy of the…” — editor's note: S. John x. 37
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“If I do not the works of my father believe me not…that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”” — editor's note: John x. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. Observe the variation in 34, and the omission in 38.
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John Chrysostom
“For by these He justifieth Himself, saying, “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not; but if I do, if ye believe not Me, believe the works.” ( c. x. 37, 38.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“But now He doth the contrary, saying, “If I do not the works of Him that sent Me, believe Me not.” ( c. x. 37.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“In another place He saith, “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not.” ( c. x. 37.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…this opinion, but again confirmed it, saying, “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works.”” — editor's note: John x. 37, 38.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…the virtue of His nature, which is exactly similar, the Son has frequently called His own works the works of the Father, saying, I do the works of My Father: so when He intended to send the Paraclete, as He often promised, He said sometimes that He was to be sent from the Father, in that He was piously wont to…” — editor's note: John x. 37.
Read the whole comment“If I do not the works of the Father, believe Me not; but if I do, and ye will not believe Me, believe the works, that ye may know and be sure that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” — editor's note: St. John x. 34–38.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord had said, If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not, teaching them to see the Father in Himself in that He did the works of the Father; that through perceiving the power of His nature they might understand the nature of that power which they perceived.” — editor's note: St. John x. 37.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But if I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, and ye will not believe me, believe the works, and know that the Father is in me, and I in Him.”” — editor's note: John x. 34–38.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
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.
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The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, shew 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.
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Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I shewed you from My Father, shewing that they had no just reason for their anger.
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Healing of the sick, teaching, miracles. He shewed them of the Father, because He sought His Father’s glory in all of them. For which of these works do ye stone Me? They confess, though reluctantly, the benefit they…
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This is their answer to the speech, I and My Father are one. Lo, the Jews understood what the Arians understand not. For they are angry for this very reason, that they could not conceive but that by saying, I and My…
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The Jew saith, Thou being a man, the Arian, Thou being a creature: but both say, Thou makest Thyself God. The Arian supposes a God of a new and different substance, a God of another kind, or not a God at all. He…
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Our Lord did not correct the Jews, as if they misunderstood His speech, but confirmed and defended it, in the very sense in which they had taken it. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
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i. e. the Law given to you, I have said, Ye are Gods? (Ps. 82:6) God saith this by the Prophet in the Psalm. Our Lord calls all those Scriptures the Law generally, though elsewhere He spiritually distinguishes the…
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Before proving that He and His Father are one, He answers the absurd and foolish charge brought against Him, that He being man made Himself God. When the Law applied this title to holy men, and the indelible word of…
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Or sanctified, i. e. in begetting, gave Him holiness, begat Him holy. If men to whom the word of God came were called gods, much more the Word of God Himself is God. If men by partaking of the word of God were made…
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Or, sanctified, i. e. set apart to be sacrificed for the world: a proof that He was God in a higher sense than the rest. To save the world is a divine work, not that of a man made divine by grace.
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Or, we must consider this a speech of humility, made to conciliate men. After it he leads them to higher things; If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not; which is as much as to say, that He is not inferior…
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What place hath adoption, or the mere conception of a name then, that we should not believe Him to be the Son of God by nature, when He tells us to believe Him to be the Son of God, because the Father’s nature shewed…
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The Son doth not say, The Father is in Me, and I in Him, in the sense in which men who think and act aright may say the like; meaning that they partake of God’s grace, and are enlightened by His Spirit. The…
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Cited together in Catechism §591.