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But if I do (ei de poiō). Condition again of the first class, assumed as true, but with the opposite results.
Though ye believe not me (kan emoi mē pisteuēte). Condition now of third class, undetermined (but with prospect), “Even if you keep on (present active subjunctive of pisteuo) not believing me.”
Believe the works (tois ergois pisteuete). These stand irrefutable. The claims, character, words, and works of Jesus challenge the world today as then.
That ye may know and understand (hina gnōte kai ginōskēte). Purpose clause with hina and the same verb ginōskō repeated in different tenses (first gnōte, the second ingressive aorist active subjunctive, that ye may come to know; then the present active subjunctive, “that ye may keep on knowing”). This is Christ’s deepest wish about his enemies who stand with stones in their uplifted hands to fling at him.
That the Father is in me, and I in the Father (hoti en emoi ho patēr kagō en tōi patri). Thus he repeats (Joh 10:30) sharply his real claim to oneness with the Father as his Son, to actual deity. It was a hopeless wish.