29.—because thou hast seen me.] Thy faith would have been more excellent, if, without such demonstrative evidence, thou hadst believed; and such is their faith, who have believed without it. Dr. Hammond. Jesus, in whom dignity and mildness were mixed in the most accurate proportion, spares His convert the additional confusion of a reproof; but gives him instruction, suitable to the occasion, necessary for himself, and useful to all the world ever after; that no great virtue could be shown by the mere admission of evidence which could scarcely be resisted, and consequently that no great recompense could be expected for it; but that the preserving a mind, open to embrace, and careful to seek after, such lower degrees of evidence, and less obvious kinds of it as our heavenly might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Anno DOMINI II. # CHAP. XXI. 32. — Receive ye the Holy Ghost:] He now gave them the Spirit, though the full effusion of it was reserved for the day of Pentecost. Abp. Newcome.