Jean 12:37

37 Et bien qu'il eût fait tant de miracles devant eux, ils ne crurent point en lui.

Jean 12:37 Meaning and Commentary

John 12:37

But though he had done so many miracles before them
Openly, and in the presence of them; meaning those miracles which were done at Jerusalem, as those which brought Nicodemus to him, and to an acknowledgment of him as a teacher sent from God; and particularly the cure of the lame man at Bethesda's pool, the giving sight to the man that was born blind, by anointing his eyes with clay, and sending him to wash in the Pool of Siloam, and the raising Lazarus from the dead at Bethany, which was within two miles of Jerusalem, in the presence of many of them who were come there to comfort Martha and Mary. Yet

they believed not on him;
the miracles done by Christ before their eyes, which they could not deny, nor disprove, and were so many, and so great, were aggravations of their unbelief; and such indeed is the nature of that sin, and so deeply rooted is it, that the most powerful means, and mighty works, will not bring a person to believe in Christ, without the powerful and efficacious grace of God.

Jean 12:37 In-Context

35 Jésus leur dit: La lumière est encore avec vous pour un peu de temps; marchez pendant que vous avez la lumière, de peur que les ténèbres ne vous surprennent; car celui qui marche dans les ténèbres ne sait où il va.

36 Pendant que vous avez la lumière, croyez en la lumière, afin que vous soyez des enfants de lumière. Jésus dit ces choses, puis il s'en alla et se cacha d'eux.

37 Et bien qu'il eût fait tant de miracles devant eux, ils ne crurent point en lui.

38 Afin que la parole qu'Ésaïe le prophète avait dite fût accomplie: Seigneur, qui a cru à notre prédication, et à qui le bras du Seigneur a-t-il été révélé?

39 Aussi ne pouvaient-ils croire, parce qu'Ésaïe a dit encore: