For no man doeth anything in secret.

No prophet and inspired teacher. Such. teacher, they urge, seeks the multitudes and there, in the most public manner, exhibits his supernatural power.

If thou do these things.

If implies that they were doubters. The next verse affirms that they were unbelievers. While the counsel of these brothers, from. worldly point of view, might seem wise, it is in another form the same counsel offered by the devil in the second temptation, and spurned by our Lord.

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