{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-773","native_reference":{"book_number":110,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":39,"verse_to":39},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them.\" For they were the more perfect among His disciples, who came to Him not only because of His miracles, but through His teaching also. The grosser sort the miracles attracted, but the better reasoners His prophecies and doctrines; and so they who were taken by His teaching were more steadfast than those attracted by His miracles. And Christ also called them \"blessed,\" saying, \"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.\" But that these here mentioned were not real disciples, the following passage shows, for it saith, \"Jesus did not commit Himself unto them.\" Wherefore? \"Because He knew all things,\" \"And needed not that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.\" The meaning is of this kind. \"He who dwells in men's hearts, and enters into their thoughts, took no heed of outward words; and knowing well that their warmth was but for a season, He placed not confidence in them as in perfect disciples, nor committed all His doctrines to them as though they had already become firm believers.\" Now, to know what is in the heart of men belongs to God alone, \"who hath fashioned hearts one by one,\" for, saith Solomon, \"Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts\"; He therefore needed not witnesses to learn the thoughts of His own creatures, and so He felt no confidence in them because of their mere, temporary belief. Men, who know neither the present nor the future, often tell and entrust all without any reserve to persons who approach them deceitfully and who shortly will fall off from them; but Christ did not so, for well He knew all their secret thoughts.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF John 24.1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"57f6ecac9e76f6909ec282735e3d3659b291ada092a4a494f419836af4506391","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":773,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4ba6298a98e65843a609e79c5c688882e909e7e959c528a22f99f14b676d6384","translator":null,"work":null}