‘Jesus answered and said to them, “This is God's work, that you put your full trust in the One Whom He has sent”.

Jesus now came to the main issue. Let their minds concentrate on Him. Let them recognise that He was God's ‘sent One'. Let them respond to His words and teaching. Let them open their hearts to the work of the Spirit. That was the ‘work' which God desired of them then and there, that they hear and believe and respond. Concentration on Him was the work that God required until their faith was aroused and fixed on Him and His saving work. Belief itself is, of course, not a ‘work'. It is a response of heart on seeing and coming to know the truth. No one can make himself truly believe. As Jesus will point out, it has to be given them by the Father. But He is pointing out that without that true belief all else is meaningless.

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