believe the works -Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29); but it is better to have the faith that comes with sight than none at all.

that ye may know, and believe The better reading probably is, that ye may come to know and continually know; -attain to knowledge and advance in knowledge in contrast to your state of suspense" (John 10:24). In the Greek it is the aorist and present of the same verb -to come to know, perceive, recognise:" the aorist denotes the single act, the present the permanent growth. The apparent awkwardness of having the same verb twice in the same clause has probably caused a large number of authorities to substitute another verb in the second case. But the change of tense is full of meaning, especially in reference to the Jews. Many of them attained to a momentary conviction that He was the Messiah (John 2:23; John 6:14-15; John 7:41; John 8:30; John 10:42; John 11:45); very few of them went beyond a transitory conviction (John 2:24; John 6:66; John 8:31).

the Father is in me, and I in him For -in Him" read with the best authorities in the Father. An instance of the solemnity and emphasis derived from repetition, so frequent in this Gospel.

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