A harmony upon the the three Evangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentary…A harmonie vpon the the three Euangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentarie…

37 And the father that sent me, he hath testified of me: neither did you ever hear his voice, nor see his shape. 38 And you have not his word abiding in you: because you believe not him whom he sent. 39 Search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me. 40 And you will not come unto me, that you may have life.

37 And the father that sent me, he hath testified of me: neither did you euer heare his voyce, nor see his shape. 38 And you haue not his word abiding in you: because you beleeue not him whom he sent. 39 Search the scriptures, because you thinke that in them you haue eternall life: and they are they that testifie of mee. 40 And you wil not come vnto mee, that you may haue life.

37 And he that sent me. This is falsely restrained unto the voice heard in his baptism. For he saith in the Pretertence that his father hath testified, that he may give them to understand that he cometh not abroad unknown, because God had marked him long ago in the law & the Prophets, so that he brought with him his marks, whereby he might be known. Therefore I do interpret it, that God did testify of his son, so often as he put the old people in hope of salvation, or promised the perfect restoring of the kingdom of Israel. So that the Jews ought to have conceived the form and image of Christ out of the scriptures before he was manifested in the flesh. In that they contemn him being present, & so consequently do reject him, they do thereby declare that they have no taste of the law: which thing Christ doth also cast in their teeth. They did boast of the knowledge of the law as if they had bin brought up in Gods bosom. Neither have ye heard his voice. After that Christ, hath complained that he is not received, he inveigheth sorer against their blindness. In that he: saith, that they never heard the voice of god, nor never saw his shape, they are metaphorical speeches. wherein he teacheth briefly that they were aliens from the knowledge of God. For as men do make known themselves by their voice & countenance: so God uttereth his voice in the voice of the Prophets, & in the Sacraments he doth as it were put upon him a visible form, whereby he may be known, according to our slender capacity. But he that doth not know God in his lively image, he doth sufficiently bewray by this, that he worshippeth no power, but that which he himself hath framed. Therefore