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Joh 12:44. Ἰησοῦς, Jesus) This is the epilogue and recapitulation, given in the Gospel of John, of the public discourses of Christ. On this account He says in Joh 12:48-49, I have spoken, as of a thing past.-ἔκραξε, He cried) eagerly desiring the salvation of men. [The words from Joh 12:44-50, “He that believeth on Me,” etc., He spake in the very act of departure (Joh 12:36, ‘departed’), when He was now by this time removed from the men by a considerable interval: wherefore He is said to have cried, no doubt in order that those very persons, with whom He had spoken, might hear, not excluding the rest, who were then standing in the temple. John mentioned His hiding Himself previously (though really subsequent to Joh 12:44-50), Joh 12:36, inasmuch as referring to the words, “Yet a little while,” etc, Joh 12:35-36, “While ye have light, believe in the light.”-Harm., p. 450.]-οὐ πιστεύει εἰς ἐμέ, he does not believe [merely] on Me) His belief is not directed to Me alone: 1Pe 1:21, “Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.” Christ refers and delegates all things to the Father.-ἀλλʼ εἰς, but on) Faith in the Son is also at the same time faith in the Father, because the Father sent the Son, and because the Son and the Father are one; with which comp. ver. foll., “He that seeth Me, seeth Him that sent Me;” ch. Joh 14:9, etc., “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,” etc.