“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
The Jews gather to do battle with gracious words against spiteful ones. This feast, though not divine but human in origin, gave Christ eight days to improve for good purposes. Solomon's porch became His courtroom, where He observed the sanhedrim and stood ready to answer any who sought Him.
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Commenting on John 10:22-38
25. I have told you. Our Lord Jesus “Nostre Seigneur Jesus.” does not conceal that he is the Christ, and yet he does not teach them as if they were willing to learn, but rather reproaches them with obstinate malice, because, though they had been taught by the word and works of God, they had not yet made any progress.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not,.... He had often said, what amounted to it, in his ministry and doctrine; as that God was his Father, and he was the light of the world, and the good shepherd, and the like; but they gave no heed nor credit to his words, even though he told them, that unless they believed he was...