“If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me.” (John 10:37)

Before this saying, Jesus had said that I and my father are one. It is because of this saying the Jews picked up the rocks and stoned him to death.

Jesus did not change the saying. He continued to say, “But if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

Jesus has performed miracles such as turning water into wine in Galilee, healing the son of a royal official in the same place, curing the helpless paralytic in Jerusalem and the miracle of multiplication of bread in the Sea of Galilee etc. However the crowd still ignored Him only because Jesus did not behave like a king (“I am meek and humble”) and he did not come from a famous background (the son of Joseph the carpenter), for the people carried prejudice in their first impression which made them refuse to believe that Jesus is the Messiah. Nevertheless, Jesus still surely pointed out that what he has done originally comes from the will of his Father. People just looked at the surface but his disciples listened with humility towards God’s word. Jesus once prayed for his disciples, “I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.” (John 17:14)

If we just listen to the word of God but do not live it out, it makes us no difference from those non believers.