Homilies on the Gospel of John

“Which none other man did.”

And of this they themselves are witnesses, speaking in this way; “It was never so seen in Israel”; and, “Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind”; and the matter of Lazarus was of the same kind, and all the other acts the same, and the mode of wonder-working new, and all beyond thought. “Why then,” says one, “do they persecute both You and us?” “Because you are not of the world. If you were of the world, the world would love its own.” He first reminds them of the words which He spoke also to His own brethren; but there he spoke more by way of a reflection, lest He should offend them, while here, on the contrary, He revealed all. “And how is it clear that it is on this account that we are hated?” “From what was done to Me. For, tell Me, which of My words or deeds could they lay hold on, that they would not receive Me?” Then since the thing would be astounding to us, He tells the cause; that is, their wickedness. And He stays not here either, but introduces the Prophet, showing him proclaiming before of old time, and saying, that,