Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostombelievers there, ib.; first object of His miracles to save souls, 124; why attended the feasts,125; rewarded perseverance in the paralytic at Bethesda, 126; did not require faith before sightfrom strangers, 129; His reasons for concealing Himself, 130; used different modes of defense,ib.; why dwelt on the sins of some whom He cured, not of others, 132; claimed not the meritof His own cure, 132; showed His Omniscience in His words to the paralytic, ib.; defends Hishealing on the Sabbath by revealing His Equality with the Father, 133; appealed at need nowto His Humanity, now to His Deity, ib.; did really make Himself equal to the Father, 134, 152;had shown it by breaking the sabbath, 133, 145; has power to act, but not apart from the Father,134; used lower expressions of His Deity to persuade the indisposed, 135; but joined withthem such as imply His Godhead, 136; differs from the Father only in His Sonship, 137; HisEquality with God proved by His being Judge, ib.; used lower expressions of Himself toconciliate the Jews, ib.; but the higher to guard us from heresy, 138; His honor connected withHis Father's essentially, ib.; why spoke of being "sent," 139; His condescension led men toreceive the higher doctrines, ib.; appeal to his raising the dead, ib.; why spoke much of theJudgment, ib.; to be Judge, because Son of God, 140; His care in propounding the Judgmentand the Resurrection, 140, 141; confirms His future predictions by His past, 140; shows Hisagreement with the Jewish Prophets, 141; His unanimity and identity with the Father, ib.; HisWill and the Father's one, ib.; addressed His words to men's suspicions, ib.; proves His justice,speaking humanly, from His self-denial, ib.; did not remind of sin, but blotted it out, 142; Hiswitness of Himself, in what senses, true and not true, 143; replies to the secret objections ofthe Jews, 144; His threefold witness, ib.; refutes the Jews by their own faith in John, ib.; yetinconstancy to him, 145; the witness of His works, ib.; His doctrine of the Deity, 146; appealsto the witness of Scripture, ib.; His commands, and mammon's, 147; His motive for reasoningwith the Jews was to save them, 148; rejected for Antichrist, ib.; why spoke not clearly ofAntichrist, 149; appealed to God's witness in that of Moses, ib.; why told not in what placeMoses prophesied of Him, ib.; avoided contention, 150; teaches us to retire from the bustleof life, 151; showed His freedom from the Law, by absenting Himself from a Passover, ib.;His diligence in instructing the disciples, ib.; His preparation for His miracles, ib.; why Heemployed things created in His miracles, 152, 153; gave thanks for our example, and to showHis submission to God, 153; why performed His greater miracles without, His lesser with,prayer, ib.; by fleeing from the multitude, teacheth contempt of the world, 154; why left thedisciples alone, 155; showed His Power on the sea, but only for a moment, ib.; why repeatedHis miracles, ib.; several reasons for what He did on the sea, 156; His passage of the seasuperior to that of Moses, 156; His timely severity, 157; really requires good works, 158;rebuked inattention in Martha, ib.; "sealed," that is, certified by the Father, 159; referredunbelievers to the Father, 160; in what sense the Bread of Life, 161; His Will one with theFather's, 162; declared not His Birth to unbelievers, 164, 165; His "Drawing" implies man'scoming, 164; spoke mysteriously of His Flesh to rouse attention, 165; taught in synagogues,to show His agreement with Jehovah, 169; eating His Flesh, how a hard saying, ib.; howdetained the Twelve, 170; His wisdom in reproving Judas secretly, 171; would not flatter theTwelve, ib.; proved His Godhead and Manhood now in seeking, now in avoiding, the Jews,173; unbelief and envy of His brethren, ib.; why He went up to Jerusalem secretly, 174, 176;His foreknowledge of His time, 175; acted as a man, to prove His Incarnatian, and to trainothers, 176; the power of His teaching, 177; His doctrine, His and not His, because one with762