“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father”— John 14:12.
CHRIST promised His disciples that if they believed, they should do even greater works than He had done—after He returned to the Father; and the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, came to abide with them forever (John 14:16). Pentecost was itself the first fulfillment of this, and, as the days went on, the truth of the promise was demonstrated more and more, as scores, hundreds, and even thousands (Acts 4:4), turned to the Lord through the ministry of Peter and John and the other apostles. Miracles were comparatively few, though they were wrought as occasion seemed to demand, but the greater works consisted in bringing the multitudes to repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. In this mighty work Peter and John had, during the earlier years of Christian testimony, the first place.
“Father, to Thee my soul I lift;
My soul on Thee depends;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From Thee alone descends.
We cannot speak one useful word,
One holy thought conceive,
Unless, in answer to our Lord,
Thyself the blessing give.
From Thee, through Jesus, we receive
The power on Thee to call.
In whom we are, and move, and live;
Our God is all in all.”
—Charles Wesley.