Cyril of Alexandria

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

“"Doth then," will haply one say of those who think contrary to the doctrines of the Church, "the Son know how to judge aright, only for this reason, that the Father is with Him when He does so?”

“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

“For they who indeed suppose Christ to be of Joseph, or of fornication, and who know not that the Word beamed forth of God the Father, how will they not with reason hear, Neither Me do ye know nor My Father?”

He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

“CHAPTER III. That no work of Jewish might was the Suffering on the Cross, nor did Christ die from the tyranny of any, but Himself of His own will suffered this for us that He might save all.”

Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

“Here he clearly shows what he means by "above" and "below." The Pharisees would have understood what he said in a bodily way, thinking the "above" and "below" were localities. That is why our Lord clarifies what he had previously said so obscurely.”

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak…

“And of Myself I do nothing, but as the Father taught Me, I speak these words. CHAPTER V. That not inferior in Might and Wisdom to God the Father is the Son, yea rather His very Wisdom and Might.”

He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

“Herein He shows clearly that He interprets the Counsel of God the Father, Himself having none other than is in Him (how could He?”

So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

“He demandeth of those who believe a disposition established and fixed and prepared for the abode of that good which they had once chosen. And this is faith in Him.”

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“This saying of Jesus persuades those who believe to leave behind worship that is according to the law.”

“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”

“They laugh at the promise of our Saviour, rather they even take it ill, as though they were insulted.”

Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

“We must here understand that certain are of God, not as though begotten of His Essence (for that were foolish), nor yet according to what is said through Paul, All things are of God (for since He is Creator and Maker of all things who…”

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

“Gentle is the word, but nevertheless very pointed. For most emphatically does He say, I have not a devil, and putting Himself in contradistinction to them, He shows that He is free from their railing and that it is true of them.”

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

“Herein is that seen to be clearly true which is said through Peter of the Saviour, Who when He was reviled reviled not again, suffering He threatened not but delivered Himself to Him That judgeth righteously.”

“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste…

“Abraham died and the prophets died and THOU sayest, If any keep My saying, he shall not taste death for ever.”

Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”

“Overshadowed in this too is the speech of the Jews and clearly big with some deep meaning: for what again do they here say, conceiving after the manner of men, yet bitter things according to their inward scope?”

You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you.

“But I know Him and keep His Word. As far as belongs to the first contact of the words before us, we say this, that Christ is speaking again as man and abasing Himself to our level, not rejecting at its proper time servant-befitting guise.”

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“That not from sins of the soul prior to birth do bodily sufferings befal any, nor yet does God bring the sins of their fathers upon any, punishing those who have nothing sinned, but brings righteous doom upon all.”

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

“Shall we then think that Christ is now not at all in the world, or do we believe that He, having ascended to heaven after His restoration to life from the dead, no longer dwells among those in this present life?”

Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”

“Hard indeed to be believed are such surpassing wonders, and that [which exceeds man's experience], from whatever source it comes, finds the intellect to be intolerant of it, and is scarcely treated with honour when convincingly forced upon people's minds.”

He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash.

“He appears still to be ignorant that the Saviour is by nature God, for otherwise he would not have spoken of him so unworthily.”

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

“They bring the man to the rulers, not that they might learn what had been done to him, and admire it; for it was not likely that men travailing with extreme envy against our Saviour Christ could ever be pleased by any such thing; but…”

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

“When the blessed Evangelist is making it manifest to us that they were immoderately vexed at the making of clay on the sabbath, he fitly hints at the absurdity of the thing, by adding: Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made…”

Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.”

“But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.”

So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?”

“And he said, He is a prophet. They receive a sharp arrow into their hearts, who do not admit fair and just reasoning, and are eager to seek that only which gratifies their malice.”

His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.

“They acknowledge as true that which was in no wise doubtful and for which it was hardly likely they would suffer anything disagreeable; for they say that they recognise their own offspring, and do not deny what really was the case at his birth, but…”

He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”

“The benefit which the man formerly blind had received from Christ appears to have been twofold: his understanding was in some way enlightened at the same time as his bodily eyes, and as he possesses the, light of the physical sun in his fleshly eyes…”