Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent, х apesteilen (G649)] - 'Him whom He sent.' This lies at the threshold of all acceptable obedience, being not only the pre-requisite to it but the proper spring of it-in that sense it is the work of works, emphatically "the work of God."