God in flesh; knows hearts; salvation from the Jews; ask in my name

Who is doing these things? Is it not God? For God was in flesh, and the creation was in a way angered together with him when he was insulted.

From John’s Gospel: “But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people, and because he had no need that anyone should testify about the human; for he himself knew what was in the human.” Of God it is written that “he who alone forms their hearts”; and he himself says something similar. So if he knows all things and knows what is in the human, how would he not be God as the one who searches hearts and kidneys?

“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” Do you hear that he says salvation is from the Jews? Yet we have enrolled God as Savior. For he has saved us “not an elder, not an angel, but the Lord himself,” according to the Scriptures. He is named Christ Jesus, having come to be from the Jews according to the flesh; and Jesus is interpreted “salvation.” So he himself is the salvation from the Jews. Therefore even if the Word has become flesh and has taken hold of Abraham’s seed, he is God also with the flesh.

“Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these he will do, because I am going to my Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do.” He says he is going to the Father, though the Son exists as God by nature and is himself the one who fills all things. So he goes in a human way…