<p>14:11- see on 14:1.</p><p><i>Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake</i>- He wanted them to perceive the indwelling of the Father in Himself, and His mutual abiding in the Father, because this was the very thing which He was promising them- to share His relationship with the Father, to come to be where He now was with the Father (:3). The prayer of John 17 and the promises of the effect of the Comforter all speak of the same possibility.</p><p>As noted on 10:38, the Lord was willing to accept 'belief' if it was simply at the level of accepting that His miracles &quot;works&quot; were from God; in the hope that He could take such faith further. Yet here He seems to be saying that belief in Him as a person, was the same as believing in Him for the sake of His miracles. He as a personality, as a character, was the most powerful witness, at least equal to that witness provided by the miracles. To encounter Him without miracles ought to be persuasive enough, and we see this from the conversion of the Samaritan woman, who believed He was in the Father without seeing miracles.</p>