Homilies on the Gospel of John

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father?”

That is, “I am seen in that Essence.”

“The words that I speak, I speak not of Myself,”

Do you see the exceeding nearness, and the proof of the one Essence?

“The Father that dwells in Me, He does the works.”

How, beginning with words, does He come to works? For that which naturally followed was, that He should say, “the Father speaks the words.” But He puts two things here, both concerning doctrine and miracles. Or it may have been because the words also were works. How then does He them? In another place He says, “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not.” How then says He here that the Father does them? To show this same thing, that there is no interval between the Father and the Son. What He says is this: “The Father would not act in one way, and I in another.” Indeed in another place both He and the Father work; “My Father works hitherto, and I work”; showing in the first passage the unvaryingness of the works, in the second the identity. And if the obvious meaning of the words denotes humility, marvel not; for after having first said, “Do you not believe?” He then spoke thus, showing that He so modeled His words to bring him to the faith; for He walked in their hearts.