Monday, January 21, 2008


SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #105

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all men, And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man. (John 2:23-25)

DIFFERENT WAYS OF RECEIVING GRACE: Our Lord's miracles served to increase the faith of the disciples, who perceived in His action in the Temple the fulfillment of the prophecy that the Messiah would be full of zeal for the house of God. The miracle and our Lord's direct testimony to His own Divinity were likewise a grace for the Jews who happened to be in the outer court of the Temple. The grace of faith was offered to them, and they resisted it: they would not believe, and demanded a fresh miracle in confirmation of the first. God gives His grace to all men. But man has the power of resisting it.

[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)

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