Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Christ, after discoursing on some high truth, commonly retires immediately, to give time to the fury of people to abate, during His absence. Thus He did now: He went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized. He went there that He might recall to people’s minds, what had gone on there; John’s preaching and testimony to Himself.
Mark their reasoning, John did no miracle, but this Man did; wherefore He is the superior. But lest the absence of miracles should lessen the weight of John's testimony, they add, But all things that John spoke of this Man were true. Though hedid no miracle, yet every thing he said of Christ was true, whence they conclude, if John wasto be believed, much more this Man, who has the evidence of miracles. Thus it follows, And many believed in Him.
