John 10:38 (WEB)
But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
Catechism · 3
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“They invite belief in him.” — Catechism footnote: cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 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 · 40
Gregory of Nyssa
“For He ‘is in the Father,’ as our Lord has told us; “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,” each of course being in the other in two different senses; the Son being in the Father as the beauty of the image is to be found in the form from which it…” — editor's note: John x. 38.
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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
“For the Lord did not then fashion Himself to be God, nor indeed is a made God conceivable, but He manifested it by the works, saying, ‘Though ye believe not Me, believe My works, that ye may know that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: John x. 38. not to the letter.
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“And the Son, being the proper Offspring of the Father’s Essence, reasonably says that the Father’s attributes are His own also; whence suitably and consistently with saying, ‘I and the Father are One,’ He adds, ‘that ye may know that I am in the Father and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: John x. 30, 38; xiv. 10.
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“…saying, Though ye believe not Me, beholding Me clad in a human body, yet believe the works, that ye may know that “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.”” — editor's note: John x. 38; xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.7Discourse III
“For Truth is loving unto men and cries continually, ‘If because of My clothing of the body ye believe Me not, yet believe the works, that ye may know that “I am in the Father and the Father in Me,” and “I and the Father are one,” and “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”’” — editor's note: John x. 38, 30; xiv. 9; cf. §5, n. 3.
Read the whole comment “‘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
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John Damascene
“…and I work: and this, What things soever He seeth the Father doing, these also doeth the Son likewise: and this, If ye believe not Me, believe My works: and this, The work which I do bear witness concerning Me: and this, As the Father raised up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom He…” — editor's note: Ibid. x. 38.
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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.
Read the whole comment“And “I and my Father are one” and “I am in the Father and the Father in me,” and the blessed Paul in his epistle to the Hebrews says “Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by…” — editor's note: John x. 38transposed.
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Ambrose of Milan
“So again, when you read, “The Lord rained from the Lord,” acknowledge the unity of Godhead, for unity in operation doth not allow of more than one individual God, even as the Lord Himself has shown, saying: “Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or believe Me for the very works’ sake.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 38; xiv. 11.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore also the Lord Himself says: “If ye believe not Me, believe at least the works.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 38.
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Augustine of Hippo
“In Him then have we the Father, because He is in the Father, and the Father in Him, and He and His Father are One.” — editor's note: John x. 30, 38.
Read the whole comment“For when he says, Another thing, he contradicts Him who says in his hearing, “I and my Father are One.”” — editor's note: Ver. 38, unum; lit. “one thing or substance.”
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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
Read the whole comment“…elsewhere, where He saith, “If ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me.” ( c. x. 38.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Ver.” — 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
“Citing the greatest instances of His power, it brings within the range of faith’s understanding that saying, in itself beyond our comprehension, I in the Father and the Father in Me, which Christ utters concerning Himself.” — editor's note: St. John x. 38.
Read the whole comment“It is no rending or severance, for He that begat is without passions, and He that was born is the Image of the invisible God and bears witness, The Father is in Me and I in the Father.” — editor's note: St. John x. 38.
Read the whole comment“He, therefore, being the perfect Father’s perfect Son, the Only-begotten Offspring of the unbegotten God, who has received all from Him Who possesses all, being God from God, Spirit from Spirit, Light from Light, says boldly, The Father in Me, and I in the Father.” — editor's note: St. John x. 38.
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“We have thus, it seems to me, more than answered the irreverence of those who refer to a unity or agreement of will such words of the Lord as, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father, or, The Father is in Me and I in the Father, or, I and the Father are One, or, All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 38.
Read the whole comment“Yet another example, I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me, and, The Father is greater than I. The One is in the Other: recognise, then, the divinity of God, the Begotten of God: the Father is greater than He: perceive, then, His acknowledgment of the Father’s authority.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 11; cf. x. 38.
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Leo the Great
““This is My Son,” “through Whom all things were made, and without Whom was nothing made” because all things that I do He doth in like manner: and whatever I perform, He performs with Me inseparably and without difference: for the Son is in the…” — editor's note: S. John i. 3: and below, cf. x. 38: and again Phil. ii. 6.
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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.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
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.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
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.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
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…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
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…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
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,
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
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…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
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.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
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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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Catechism §591.
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Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
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Cited together in Against Eunomius I.38.
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Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 3.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.15.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.15.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.38.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.15.
Cited together in Catechism §591.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.15.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.15.
Cited together in Catechism §591.