John 12:27 (WEB)
“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time’? But I came to this time for this cause.
Catechism · 2
Man
“But "soul" also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 10:28; 26:38; Jn 12:27; 2 Macc 6 30.
Jesus Died Crucified
“No, for this purpose I have come to this hour."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 12:27.
Fathers and councils · 36
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Her anguish, again, was indicated when He said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death;” her fear by the words, “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me;” and her perplexity, too, when He said, “And what I shall say, I know not.”” — editor's note: John xii. 27. The Valentinians seem, for their own purposes, to have added οὐκ οἶδα to this text.
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Tertullian
“Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause is it that I am come to this hour; only, O Father, do Thou glorify Thy name”—in which He spake as the Son.” — editor's note: John xii. 27, 28.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.6Discourse III
“Chapter XXIX.—Texts Explained; Twelfthly, Matthew xxvi. 39; John xii. 27, &c. Arian inferences are against the Regula Fidei, as before.” — the author cites it
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John Damascene
““Wherefore the Lord said: Now is My soul troubled.” — editor's note: St. John xii. 27.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“For when it wishes to indicate any suffering or perturbation affecting Him, it indicates it under the name of soul; as when it says, “Now is My soul troubled;” and, “My soul is sorrowful, even unto death;” and, “No man taketh My soul from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.”” — editor's note: John xii. 27.
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“And again, “Now is my soul troubled.”” — editor's note: John xii. 27.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…arguments and citations from the divine Scripture of the text “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me” and that other, “Now is my soul troubled” and other like passages, how would you dispose of his objections?” — editor's note: John xii. 27
Read the whole comment“This is the more inexcusable when the Lord points out at one time that the body was being offered, at another that the soul was being troubled.” — editor's note: John xii. 27
Read the whole comment“And again “Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life for the sheep,” and again “Now is my soul troubled” “my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death” and of His body He says “The bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world,”…” — editor's note: John xii. 27
Read the whole comment“Father save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour.”” — editor's note: John xii. 27
Read the whole comment“…and “Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me,” the hunger, the thirst, and the strengthening by an angel; His saying “Now is my soul troubled,” and “my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death,” and all similar passages belonging to the manhood of the Christ.” — editor's note: John xii. 27
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Ambrose of Milan
“Christ saith: “My soul is troubled.”” — editor's note: S. John xii. 27.
Read the whole comment“Then, indeed, He was moved by a loving sister’s tears, for they touched His human heart,—here by secret grief He brought it to pass that, even as His death made an end of death, and His stripes healed our scars, so also His sorrow took away our sorrow.” — editor's note: It is a very beautiful doctrine of the Fathers that Christ submitted to the conditions and experiences of our life in order to restore and sanctify and endue…
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Augustine of Hippo
“And finally he appends the statement, which appears also in Matthew and Mark, on the subject of the destined overthrow of the temple.” — editor's note: [Many harmonists insert at this point the events narrated in John xii. 20–50. Augustin does not express an opinion in regard to this passage.—R.]
Read the whole comment“There, too, he reports the remarkable words which were spoken again on the subject of the light which enlightens and makes men the children of light.” — editor's note: John xii. 20–50.
Read the whole comment“Father, save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour.”” — editor's note: Chap. xii. 27.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“…heaven and earth, and see with the inner sight what the Lord meant when He spoke of His coming Passion: “The hour is come that the Son of man may be glorified:” and below He says, “Now is My spirit troubled.” — editor's note: S. John xii. 23; Ibid. 27, 28, 30–32. The reading omni (all things) will not escape notice in v. 32.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
“Now if you refuse to allow what is said, Now is My soul troubled; (John 12:27) and, I have power to lay it (My life) down, (ib. 10:18) to be said of the rational soul, still how will you interpret, Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend My spirit?” — the author cites it
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To our Lord’s exhortation to His disciples to endurance, they might have replied that it was easy for Him, Who was out of the reach of human pain, to talk philosophically about death, and to recommend others to bear…
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I hear Him say, He that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal; and I am ravished, I despise the world; the whole of this life, however long, is but a vapour in My sight; all temporal things…
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As He draws near to the Cross, His human nature appears, a nature that did not wish to die, but cleaved to this present life. He shews that He is not quite without human feelings. For the desire of this present life…
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Lastly, let the man who would follow Him, hear at what hour he should follow. A fearful hour has perhaps come: a choice is offered, either to do wrong, or suffer: the weak soul is troubled. Hear our Lord. What shall…
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i. e. What but something to confirm My followers? Father, save Me from this hour.
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He teaches thee Whom thou shouldest call on, whose will prefer to thine own. Let Him not seem to fall from His greatness, because He wishes thee to rise from thy meanness. He took upon Him man’s infirmity, that He…
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As if He said, I cannot say why I should ask to be saved from it; For for this cause came I unto this hour. However ye may be troubled and dejected at the thought of dying, do not run away from death. I am troubled,…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
When God speaks audibly, as He does here, but no visible appearance is seen, He speaks through the medium of a rational creature: i. e. by the voice of an Angel.
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I have glorified it, i. e. before I made the world; and will glorify it again, i. e. when Thou shalt rise from the dead. Or, I have glorified it, when Thou wast born of a Virgin, didst work miracles, wast made…
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The voice though loud and distinct, soon passed off from their gross, carnal, and sluggish minds; only the sound remaining. Others perceived an articulate voice, but did not catch what it said: Others said, An Angel…
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i. e. It did not come to tell Him what He knew already, but them what they ought to know. And as that voice did not come for His sake, but for theirs, so His soul was not troubled for His sake, but for theirs.
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The voice of the Father proved what they were so fond of denying, that He was from God. For He must be from God, if He was glorified by God. It was not that He needed encouragement of such a voice Himself, but He…
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The judgment at the end of the world will be of eternal rewards and punishments. But there is another judgment, not of condemnation, but of selection, which is the one meant here; the selection of His own redeemed,…
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What kind of judgment it is by which the devil is cast out, I will explain by an example. A man demands payment from his debtors, beats them, and sends them to prison. He treats with the same insolence one who owes…
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What is this all that He draweth, but that from which the devil is cast out? He does not say, All men, but, All things; for all men have not faith. He does not mean then all mankind, but the whole of a man, i. e.…
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Why then did He say above, that the Father drew men? (c. 6:46.) Because the Father draws, by the Son who draws. I shall draw, He says, as if men were in the grasp of some tyrant, from which they could not extricate…
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If I be lifted up from the earth, He says, i. e. when I shall be lifted up. He does not doubt that the work will be accomplished which He came to do. By His being lifted up, He means His passion on the cross, as the…
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 60.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 60.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on John 2:18–22 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 66.
Cited together in Catechism §363 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §607 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Catechism §607.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on John 2:18–22 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on John 2:18–22 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 60.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 60.