Matthew Henry Commentary


Matthew Henry Commentary
"The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am [the] Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." — John 10:31-38 (ASV)
Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim Him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him.
Whom the Father sends, He sanctifies. The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, only those whom He makes holy.
The Father was in the Son, so that by divine power He performed His miracles; the Son was so in the Father, that He knew the whole of His mind.
This we cannot by searching find out to perfection, but we may know and believe these declarations of Christ.