For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
      First, The inducement to it: The Father loveth the Son; he declared, This is my beloved Son. He had not only a good will to the undertaking, but an infinite complacency in the undertaker. Christ was now hated of men, one whom the nation abhorred (Isaiah 49:7); but he comforted himself with this, that his Father loved him.