John 10:37-39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If I do not the works of my Father, &c. When I claim the character of the Son of God, I do not expect to be credited merely on my own affirmation: if I do not such glorious works as could not be performed by any but a divine agent, believe me not: but if I do If it be apparent that I do such works, though you believe not me, and are regardless of my own testimony in the case, yet, at least, believe the works; and let their evidence remove the prejudices you have entertained; that ye may know, &c ., that the Father is in me, and I in him Namely, by such a union as abundantly justifies the expression which seems to give you such peculiar offence. In other words, Though ye do not believe what I say concerning my personal dignity, on my own authority, you ought to believe it on account of my miracles, which are plainly of such a kind, that it is impossible for any deceiver to perform them; they are the works of God himself, and therefore you ought to consider them as such. Therefore they sought again to take him For this defence was so far from pacifying them, that they were rather the more enraged at him through it. But he escaped out of their hand Withdrew himself, as he had done before, in an extraordinary manner. See John 8:59; Luke 4:30.