But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
Ver. 37. But though he had done, &c.] The evangelist being now by course of the history to pass on to the description of Christ's death and passion, thinks good first to remove this dead Amasa (the Jews' unbelief) out of the way (that none might stop or step aside for it), by assigning the true cause thereof, their own unmalleable obstinance.