MARY, OUR MOTHER

SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #397

Jesus answered them: "Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you 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, you are gods?' If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken: Do you say of him whom the Father hath 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, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father." They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.
(John 10:32-39)

OUR LORD'S DIVINITY is proved in several ways in this chapter. It is proved: 1. by His own distinct testimony, 2. by His miracles, 3. by the holiness of His life.

2. THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD'S MIRACLES: Our Lord appealed to His wonderful works as a proof of His divine power, and as a means whereby the Jews might know that "the Father was in Him and He in the Father." This shows us that our Lord's chief aim in working miracles was to induce men to believe in His divine mission and in the truth of His doctrine. Even as He spoke, He confirmed His testimony by a fresh miracle, disappearing from the midst of His infuriated enemies when they were on the point of laying hands on Him.

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