John 3:2

2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

Ver. 2. We know ] But will not know. Hence they became sinners against the Holy Ghost,Matthew 12:23; Matthew 12:23 , &c. The devil that commits this sin every day, is full of objective knowledge, and thence hath his name. a

No man can do these miracles ] Those magicians of Egypt, Jannes and Jambres, did but cast a mist, and beguile the sight of Pharaoh and his followers. How Tyndale hindered the magician of Antwerp, that he could not do his feats, see Acts and Monuments, fol. 985.

a Δαιμων quasi Δαημων . Plato. Miracula a diabolo edita sunt praestigiae, imposturae, phantasmata, ludibria. Bacholcer.