Matthew Poole and continuators on John 15:24

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen, and hated both me and my Father .

Our Saviour often appealeth to his works, both to own his Mission from God, and also to prove the Iews in excusable, in their not receiving and imbracing him: for which latter purpose he mentions them here, and saith, that he had done such works as no man did, and by his own Power and [illegible: 1 word] Christ did some works, as we do not read, that eve[illegible: 1 letter] man did; such as the multiplying of the loaves, the giving sight to those that were born blind, the healing of so many desperate diseases: And for such as he did, which God had also given men a power to do, he did them in a quite different manner from that in which men did them. Elisha raised the Shunamites child to life, but it was by Prayer▪ Peter cured the lame man, Acts 3.6. but it was in the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth. We read indeed of Christs praying at the raising of Lazarus; but his ordinary way, was by his word of command, which was a quite different way than that used by those men, by whom miracles had been wrought Besides, it is manifest, that the generality of the Iews did not look upon Christ as one sent from God, tho many of them did; and admit that there had been nothing in the miracles wrought by Christ, more than Elijah, or Elisha, or the Prophets had done; yet it had been sufficient for to have convinced them, that he acted by a Divine Power, and must be sent and Authoriz'd by and from God to do what he did. Now saith our Saviour, if I had not done before their faces, such works as no man could do but by a Power derived from God, and some such as God never authorized men to do; their sin had been nothing to what now it is:

but now they have understood, that I am sent from my Father; and knowing this, yet going on in their most malicious designs against me, they both declare an hatred and malice against my Father who sent me, and me as sent by him.