John Chapter 14 verse 11 Holy Bible
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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Have faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have faith in me because of what I do.
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Believe *me* that I [am] in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.
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Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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believe me, that I `am' in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.
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John 14 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Believe me when I say that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, on the ground of my simple affirmation. My words are spirit and life, and carry their own evidence with them. Christ is not here antithetically contrasting (as Lange suggests) words and works, as though the words were his, and the works the Father's; but he is appealing to their spiritual intuition of truth which is legible by its own light as eternal and Divine, and then reminding them that they may fail in transcendental vision and fall back on reason and its processes, which will come nearer to their understanding - Or else (εἰ δὲ μή), if it be after all that you cannot take my words as the Father's words, as the utterance of the Divine thought, believe me - believe that I am in the Father, etc. - by reason of the very works which are the witness of the Father's power, holiness, and love. In this last appeal he turns from Philip to the whole group of the apostles. Miracles are, if not primary evidence, secondary and convincing evidence, where the eye has been blinded by the mists of doubt, and the vision of the Father confused and withheld by lack of inward purity. Moreover, by Christ's ἔργα are meant, not merely the supernatural portents, but all the work of his life, all the healing of souls, all the conversion of souls, all the indubitable issues of his approach to the heart of man. The great ἔργον is salvation from sin, the gift of righteousness, and the life where before there was moral death (see notes, Vers. 19,20; John 10:37, 38).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Believe me that I am in the Father.--He passes now from Philip, and addresses Himself to the whole body of the apostles. He claims from them a personal trust in Himself, which should accept His statement that He and the Father were immanent in each other.Or else believe me for the very works' sake.--If they cannot receive the truth on the testimony of His word, He will take lower ground with them. He will place before them the evidence He had placed before the Jews. Let them, if they will not hear Him, believe on account of the very works which He had done. (Comp. Note on John 5:19-20; John 10:37-38.)
