23 "Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man."
John 2:23-25
A very interesting and significant point emerges from the final verses of the chapter. They speak of many people believing in Christ because of the miracles He performed. This, John tells us at the close of the gospel record (20:31), was their whole point. But in 24 we are told that Jesus did not 'commit' Himself to these people. The word rendered 'commit' is the same as that translated 'believed' in 23, and we may translate thus: 'Many believed in His name but He did not believe in them'. This means that there is a belief in Christ that He is not impressed with and to which He is not prepared to commit Himself, not so much because He thinks it is not genuine, but because it does not go far enough; it is a belief that is merely a question of being impressed by Him (because of the miracles) but nevertheless a belief that does not involve commitment. It is significant that in 24 the AV renders the word 'commit' because it is the faith that commits one to Christ that is saving faith, and nothing less. This is a lesson of critical magnitude, and there is all the difference between salvation and eternal loss in the distinction that is made here. Is the faith in Christ that we have, the kind that has led us to a complete commitment of ourselves to Him? It is on these terms alone that we enter into the kingdom of God.