Thus He used to speak to them after some of His glorious deeds, after the Transfiguration or after some miraculous healing, so that this would serve as a lesson for us, so that we would not be proud and boasting, but would think about the last hour. But the feeble nature of man hardly accepts even such amazing and clear lessons. One day, when He was speaking to His disciples about His impending sufferings and death, the thought came to them: which of them would be greater? (cf. Luke 9:46). And He spoke to them on purpose about His sufferings and death, always after some kind of His glory, in order to teach them humility and humiliation and the fear of God. Oh, God, how weak they were, who stood so close to the Source of universal and heavenly glory!

He sees the past of people and knows their fates. He said to the paralytic in Bethesda, after He had healed him: "Behold, you are healed; sin no more, lest something worse happen to you. It is clear from this that the Lord saw into the past life of the paralytic patient and learned the cause of his illness. And the reason was his sin. Wherefore he saith unto him, Sin no more.

He sees into the past of a young man born blind. His apostles, seeing with Him this blind beggar in front of the luxurious temple of Solomon, asked Him: "Rabbi! Who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind? To the great amazement of the disciples, Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents have sinned, but this is so that the works of God may be manifested in him, that is, that He, as the Messiah and Savior of the world, may open his eyes, which is what happened.

Penetrating with His clairvoyant mind into the distant horizons of the past, He says to the Jews about the forefather Abraham: Abraham your father was glad to see My day; and he saw and rejoiced (John 8:56). This is a mystery that is incomprehensible to us.

He prophesied to the Apostles: "All of you will be offended in Me this night, that is, all will flee for their lives, and they will leave Him alone, which came to pass."

To Peter He prophesied: Verily I say unto thee, that this night, before the crows, thou shalt deny Me three times. This came true, despite Peter's assurances that he would not deny Him.

He knew from the beginning that Judas would betray Him. Jesus knew from the beginning who the unbelievers were and who would betray Him (John 6:64). And again, on another occasion, St. John writes that Jesus knew the betrayer: "Have I not chosen you twelve? but one of you is the devil" (John 6:70). And again in another place: "He knew His betrayer" (John 13:11). And when they gathered together at the Supper, He said to the betrayer, "What you do, do quickly." It was as if the Lord was in a hurry to leave this life as soon as possible and go over to His Father. But none of those who sat at table understood why He had said this to him.

No one knew; He was the only one who knew. No one saw; He alone saw what they concealed in themselves yesterday, today and tomorrow.

He amazes the Samaritan woman with the knowledge of her whole life: "You have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband." And to the woman's question where it is proper to pray to God: in Jerusalem or Samaria, the Seer answers her: believe me, that the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. And this was literally fulfilled.

He saw Satan falling down: "I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning" (Luke 10:18).

He always sees His Father in heaven and does what is pleasing to the Father: the Son can do nothing of Himself unless He sees the Father doing. When He expresses His desire in His thoughts or prayers, the heavens are opened before Him and He freely communicates with His Father and the holy angels. If He had only willed to be in trouble, the Father would have sent Him more than twelve legions of angels (Matt. 26:53).

At the zenith of His glory, He stuns with the foresight of His death: when a pious woman in Bethany poured precious perfumes on His feet, some of the materialists present, among them the Jews first, murmured. Then Jesus answered them, "Leave her: why do you trouble her? She preceded the anointing of My body for burial.

He sees the heights of heaven. He sees the depths of hell. He sees the distances of time; sees and distances of spaces. He saw the rich man in hell and Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham.

And returning from Bethany to Jerusalem, He said to His disciples, "Go to the opposite village; when you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied up, on which no man has ever sat down; when you have untied him, bring him in; And if anyone asks you, Why do you loose it? say to him thus: the Lord has need of him. Those who were sent went and found as He had told them (Luke 19:30-32).