22. Cum ergo resurrexisset a 22. When therefore he was mortuis, recordati sunt risen again from the dead, his discipuli eius, quia hoc disciples remembered that he dicebat, et crediderunt had said this, and they scripturae, et sermoni quem believed the scripture, and dixit Iesus. the word that Jesus had said. 22. When Christ had risen His disciples understood the Scriptures, or rather they believed that they (see, _e.g._, Psalms iii. 6; xv. 10), and Christ’s present words, referred to His resurrection. 23. Cum autem esset 23. Now when he was at Ierosolymis in pascha in die Jerusalem at the pasch, upon festo, multi crediderunt in the festival day, many nomine eius, videntes signa believed in his name, seeing eius, quae faciebat. his signs which he did. 23. *Upon the festival day.* Rather during the festal time, which, at the Pasch, lasted a week, many believed in His name, that is to say, in Him, seeing the miracles which he wrought, and which were _proofs_ of His divine power. 24. Ipse autem Iesus non 24. But Jesus did not trust credebat semetipsum eis, eo himself unto them, for that he quod ipse nosset omnes. knew all men. 24. *Unto them*; _i.e._, all the Jews, or perhaps those very persons who believed in Him; because, as searcher of hearts (verse 25), He foresaw that they would not remain faithful followers. 25. Et quia opus ei non erat 25. And because he needed not ut quis testimonium perhiberet that any should give testimony de homine: ipse enim sciebat of man: for he knew what was quid esset in homine. in man. 25. He knew this, not by any external indications, but because He is the searcher of hearts. This is noted as another proof of Christ’s Divinity, because this knowledge of the secrets of the hearts of all men belongs to God alone. See 3 Kings viii. 39; 1 Paral. xxviii. 9; Job xlii. 2; Ps. vii. 10; Acts xv. 8. Some of the saints in special cases were able to read the hearts of certain individuals, but no one save God knows the hearts of all. CHAPTER III. 1‐21. *Nicodemus comes to Christ; their discourse.* 22‐36. *Christ begins to baptize; complaints of the Baptist’s disciples, and testimony of the Baptist to Christ’s divine origin, and to the necessity of faith in Him.* 1. Erat autem homo ex 1. And there was a man of the pharisaeis, Nicodemus nomine, Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a princeps Iudaeorum. ruler of the Jews. 1. This chapter is closely connected with the end of the preceding. Among the many who believed (ii. 23) was *a man of the Pharisees* (see i. 24). The sect, name, and dignity of the man are mentioned, because of his importance, and because of the importance of the discourse about to be narrated. *A ruler of the Jews*; that is to say, as we gather from vii. 45, 50, he was a member of the Sanhedrim.