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.