ny to the proper cauſe : He who doth thoſe things which none but God can do, muſt needs be God, or impowred by God to do ther. þ This is the way for you to know, be perſuaded and to believe, That the Father is in me by his mighty Divine working Power, C/. 14-10. The Fat l-r that awelle:h in me, he doth the works; and I work in,and ryugether with him. This Phraſe, The Father is in me, and I in him teacheth us three things concerning Chriſt. 1. His Oneneſs in Nature and Effence with the Father. 2. His Perſonal diſtinQtion from his Father ; here »re two menrioned, The Fa:her and Me. None can pro: perly be ſaid to be in himſelf. 3. The moſt perfe&t, and 1ntimate, in dwelling of on: of the Perſons in the Holy Trinity, in the other.
4 If 1 do ſuch works & can be done by no Jeſs than a Divine being beyond the Power and ability of all Creatures ; then, vou will not give credit to any bare affirmations of my ſelf, 1fay I am the Son of God ; yer believe the thing for the
39 * Therefore they ſought again to take him / : but
3” he eſcaped out of their hand m.
/ Becauſe he (aid, that the Father was in Him, and He in the Fa-
ther, by which they well enough underſtood, that he afferted an union with the Father ; they did not again go about to ſtone him, as they did before ; he had ſufficiently Ropped their mouths,as to their impvtation o© Blaſphemy ; bur they ſeek to apprehend him, with a deſign ( no doubt ) to carry him before the Sanhearim, ( their great Cou:t, which had Cogniſance of thoſe things.) »» Bur as he had once and again b-fors. ſo he now again eſcapeth out of their hands : whether bv darkning the Air before their Eyes, or (as ſome would have ir ) making his Body inviſiule, by his Divine Power ; or what other way, the Scripture tells us nor, and it is great raſhneſs co de-
S. FO HN
« We read of a Woman, Luke 7. 29. that came behing Ons © viour while he was at dinner, in the Houſe of $:30y the Pharif,” brought an Alabaſter box of Ointment, ſtood at his Feer behin] wa weeping, waſhing his Feet with her tears,and wiping them wich ws hair; bur it appears by the ſtory, ſhe had been before 2 - Sinner. We read of another Woman, Marthew 26. 6, » 14. 3. that poured a box of Ointment on our Saviours head was at dinner in the Houſe of Simox the Leper : Bur we in thoſs ty Evangeliſts, read nothing of her waſhing his feet with her tors, wiping them with her hair ; but in the next Chapter of this Gy . ver. 3- we have a ſtory, which ( whether it be the fame withihe ether or no, I cannot tell ) is that doubtleſs to which this Verſe > ferrerh : The Names and circumſtances much agree, There _ other Martes, ( for Mary was a very ordinary name among ray but this was that Mary which is mentioned, Chap. 12. 3. that aiointeg the Lord *with Ointment, &*c. It was her brother was Sick
3 Therefore his ſiſters ſent unto him, ſaying, Lord,
behold, he whom thou loveſt, 1s ſick w.
w Chrift ( as was ſaid before ) ſeemeth to have been very familiar at the Houſe of theſe two Siſters, and ofren ro have made them his Hoſtefſes ; and if it ſhould appear by this Verſe, that in thoſe vigt; he had ſh2wed particular kindnefles to this their brother Latary who was now Sick, this makes them ſtile their Brother, him 2», thou loweſt, They plead no merits either of their own or his; ty only plead with him for his own goodneſs and love. Nor do the expreſs in particular, what they deſired for their Brother, thouph ir 15eaſily underſtood by their repreſentation of his ſtate and op.
ition.
4 When Jeſus heard that, he ſaid, This ſicknek is
notorious Mar} as be
termine.
40 And went away again beyond Jordan, into the
place where John at firſt baptized » : and there he a- bode 0.
# Chriſts time was not yet come when he ſhould be berrayed,and
Crucified ; it was yet three months and more toit ; He ſaw the Jews; at Jeruſalem were in ſuch a rage and fury, that there was no ſtaying in that Place : He goes beyond Jordan to Bethabara, where he found 7h at firſt Baptizing, John 1. 28. before he Baptized in Enur near Salim, Chap. 3. 23. See the Notes on John 1. 28. Poflibly he choſe thar place, as being a place where 704; had been preparing a way for him, by turning mens hearts in ſome meaſure for receiving the Gnſpel, and pointing ont Chriſt to his Diſciples, as the Lamb of God who taketh away the fins of the World. o How long he abode there, we cannot tell; probably, till he took his laſt journey from Galilee to Jeruſalem, of which the other Evangeliſts ſpake , Marth. 20. 17, Mark to. 32, Inte 18, 31+ What he did in Galilee during theſe thre - months, 704n reports not, only ſaith,
41 And many reſorted unto him, and ſaid, John did
no miracle p : but all things that John ſpake of this man were true 7q.
p God fo ordered it in the Wiſdom of his Providence, that though
Elijah and Eliſha under the Law wronght Miracles, by which they confirmed their Divine Mifſton ; yet John coming immediately be. fore Chriſt, as his Meſſcnger and Forerunner, wrought none ; that f the Glory of Chriſt in working Miracles when he came, might be more clear and evident. This made the People, that came to Chriſt while he was in Galilee, ſay thus amongſt themſelves, We pid a great Veneration to Fehn the Baptiſt, yet he never did thoſe thirgs which Chrift hath done. 9 And whatſoever John told us of this Pe:-| ;v of his Father - which was to be manifeſted in his raiſing of Li ſon, hath proved true; Re hath done,and doth greater things than ever ; 24:2« from the dead; we muſt not judge of Chriſts love tous, by John did, and is in the Judgment of ſenſe to be preferred beforei his more external diſpenſations of Providence ; nor judge that he him : ſhould we not now believe in him ? John toid us he was the ' Aari- -o7 love us, becauſe he doth not preſently come in to our help, Lamb of God, who takes away the fins of the World, and told us zr mes, and in ſuch ways and methods as we would thinkrer much more concerning him, which our Eyes ſee is true. |
42 And many believed on him there -. 7 Some b:lieved on him, as ſuch whom Fohn Baptiſt had ſpoken
him to be: _ poſſibly believed on bim 11 the fenſe mentioned, Chap. 2. 23. Not to the ſaving of their Souis, but as one ſent of God, ..: mo -.-Q3 i Galile; a great Prophet, no ordinary Man. The rage of Men ſhall not khin- corre he I RnneT, Sur m1 Porn or | der the p:ogrels of the Goſpel.
CHAP. XI.
Lazarus being ſick at Bethany, his Siſters ſend for Chrift, 1-—6. Who