*But what he seeth* (βλέπει) *the Father doing*. “But what,” that is, not by Himself, _but_ together with the Father, “nisi” of the Vulgate being here equal to “sed.” See Matt. xii. 4; Gal. ii. 16. *For what things soever He doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.* St. Thomas on this verse says:—“Excludit in his tria circa potestatem suam: scilicet particularitatem (_quaecumque_), diversitatem (_haec_), et imperfectionem (_similiter_).” And St. Augustine on this verse says beautifully: “He does not say whatsoever the Father doeth, the Son does _other_ things like them, but the very same things. The Father made the world, the Son made the world, the Holy Ghost made the world. If the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, are one, it follows that one and the same world was made by the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Ghost. Thus it is the very same thing that the Son doth. He adds _likewise_, to prevent another error arising. For the body seems to do the same things with the mind, but it does not do them in a like way, inasmuch as the body is subject, the soul governing; the body visible, the soul invisible. When a slave does a thing at the command of his master, the same thing is done by both; but is it in a like way? Now in the Father and Son there is not this difference; they do the same things, and in a like way. Father and Son act with the same power; so that the Son is equal to the Father.” Since then the works of the Son as God are the works of the Father, if they blamed the Son for violating the Sabbath, they thereby blamed the Father also. And it is of the Son _as God_ there is question here; for as man, or as God‐man He could do many things “of Himself,” such as eating, walking on the waters, &c., which, of course, the Father never did; and, moreover, it would not be true to say that the Son as man does all that the Father does. 20. Pater enim diligit Filium, 20. For the Father loveth the et omnia demonstrat ei quae Son, and showeth him all ipse facit: et maiora his things which himself doth: and demonstrabit ei opera, ut vos greater works than these will miremini. he show him, that you may wonder. 20. Here is given the reason for the Son’s identity of operation with the Father. *For the Father loveth the Son*, and from all eternity communicateth to Him the one Divine power and operation, whereby He Himself doth all things; and that Divine power shall yet be _manifested_ by the Son in greater works than the healing of the paralytic, that you may wonder.