And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Ver. 5. He could do there no mighty work] He could not, because he would not. Note here the venomous nature of infidelity, that transfuseth, as it were, a dead palsy into the hands of omnipotence, disabling Christ, in a sort, to do such a man good. Christ by his absolute power can do all things: by his actual power he can do no more than he will do.