“Is faith a work?”

When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into boats and went across to Capernaum to look for him. They found him on the other side of the sea and said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to e…

“You are the Son of God!” Few times did the men who knew Jesus dare to make a loud declaration of such high flights, and it took a slow agony on the cross so that in the end a Roman soldier might say perhaps with tears in his eyes: “Truly, this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39). How late he realized it! But what men said with modesty, reluctantly and very few times, the demons shouted it frequently and at the slightest provocation. Once the L…