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

NPNF (V1-14)St. ChrysostomChrist, 56; in what sense knew not Christ, 57; why believed not after the descent of the Spiriton Jesus, 60; malice of, contrasted with the candor of Nathanael, 71; were not profited byrelationship to Christ, 75; provoked to hear of Christ's Equality with God, 81; their wickednessin requiring a sign in the temple, ib.; sinned by vainglory, 98; weaned from idolatry by gradualteaching, 106; had been rejected, long before Christ, 108; their inattention contrasted with thecare of the woman of Samaria, 110, 114; did not attend to the Word, and hindered others, 110;preferred to the Samaritans because purer in faith, 115; and their spiritual fathers, 116; butinferior to Christians, ib.; did not enquire to learn, but to mock, 117; their envy of the paralytic'scure, 130; their faith hindered by vainglory, 136, 148; really believed in John the Baptist, 144;but only for a season, 145; rejected God's witness to Christ, in rejecting that of the Scriptures,146; convicted of not loving God, 148; and of excessive pride, ib.; rejected Christ for Antichrist,ib.; how to be accused by Moses, 149; their gluttony made them affected by the miracle ofthe loaves, 153, 157, 159; their ingratitude and hypocrisy in mentioning the Manna, 160;incredulous because disappointed of their lust, 161; fled from Christ's spiritual doctrine, 164;led astray by unlawful curiosity, 166; their rage against Christ was from fear, 176; theirwickedness in wondering at, not obeying, His word, 177; subverted the Law by their conduct,178; confuted out of the Law itself, ib.; those who saw most of Christ's miracles hated Himmost, 180; their inconsistency, ib.; in what sense knew and knew not Christ, 180, 181; notreally ignorant, 71, 110, 181; how sought Christ "in a little while," 181; their contempt ofGentiles, 182; their malice in pretending ignorance, 185, 188; imperfect faith of some of them,192; carried texts of Scripture on their dress, 193; erred, because they had not the fear of God,ib.; their insensibility to the bondage of sin, ib.; were in bondage repeatedly, 194; differedfrom us, as servants from sons, ib.; hindered from believing, by reliance on their descent, 195;proved children of the devil, from envy and murder, ib.; contracted unlawful marriages, 196;alien from God and from Abraham, ib.; their blasphemy, that Christ had a devil, 197, 198;trust in Abraham only, 198; knew not the Father, ib.; malice of, towards the blind man atSiloam, 205, 207; labor to depreciate the miracle, ib.; subtlety and hypocrisy of their questions,208; neither Moses' nor Christ's disciples, 209; asked questions of Christ, not to learn, but tosilence Him, 222; their wickedness in rejecting the greater witness of His works, and demandingwords, 223; provoked by Christ's claiming coequality with God, 224; thought to save, butruined themselves, by slaying Christ, 239; did not escape the Romans, 241; deserted by theSpirit after the Crucifixion, ib.; their wickedness in plotting at a Passover, 242; ruined bycovetousness, 243; the people believed, the rulers rejected Christ, 244; design to kill Lazarus,245; really understood Christ's meaning, 251; but misconstrued it deliberately, ib.; still indarkness, ib.; their unbelief foretold, 252; opposed both God and Moses, in Christ, 283; theirunbelief, worldly pride, ib.; absurdity of their scruple to enter Pilate's palace, 310; in whatsense could not put any to death, ib.; their madness in preferring Barabbas, 313; made toconfess their own downfall, 315; why wished to slay Jesus by crucifying, ib.; spoiled by successfrom the beginning, 316; fulfilled the prophecy unconsciously, 317; madness of, proclaimedby the Title on the Cross, ib.; their obduracy to the last, 319.John Baptist, St., spoke as sent from God, 25; why sent to witness to Christ, 26; inferior to Christ,ib.; confessed his inferiority, 45; reverenced by the Jews, 44; praised by Josephus, ib.;, taughtfrom heaven, 45; prepared the Jews for Christ by degrees, ib.; how "after" Christ, ib.; inexternals superior to Christ, 55; preferred to Christ by the Jews, ib.; why questioned by the773