John 15:13 (WEB)
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Catechism · 4
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“In every liturgical action the Holy Spirit is sent in order to bring us into communion with Christ and so to form his Body. the Holy Spirit is like the sap of the Father's vine which bears fruit on its branches.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 15:1-17; Gal 5:22.
Man
“In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 16:25-26; Jn 15:13; Acts 2:41
Jesus Died Crucified
“By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 13:1; 15:13.
“At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered his life to his Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 10:17-18; 15:13; Heb 9:14; 1 Jn 4:10.
Fathers and councils · 35
Eusebius of Caesarea
“He showed this by the fullness of his love, being well pleased even to lay down his life in defense of the brethren.” — editor's note: Compare John xv. 13.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.12Conference XI
“And once more: “Ye are My friends, if ye do whatever I command you.”” — editor's note: S. John xv. 13.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(John 15:13.)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““And fulfil all Thy counsel,” not only that whereby Thou didst lay down Thy life for Thy friends, that the corrupted grain might rise again to more abundance; but that also whereby “blindness in part hath happened unto Israel, that the fulness of the Gentiles might enter in, and so all Israel might be saved.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“…for the brethren, which is the perfection of love, even as our Lord saith: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends:” this the holy martyrs, then, considering, despised their lives here, that they might find them there, following our Lord’s words when He said, “He that loveth…” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Attend a little: to what it is perfected, ye have heard; the very end of it, and the very measure of it is what the Lord hath put before us in the Gospel: “Greater love hath no man,” saith He, “than that one lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Above he had said up to what point charity is perfected: what the Lord saith in the Gospel, “Greater love than this hath no man, that one lay down his life for his friends,” this same had the apostle also said: “As He laid down His life for us, we ought also to lay down our lives for the brethren.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“For Jesus had no need to come but because of charity: as indeed the charity we are commending is that which the Lord Himself commendeth in the Gospel, “Greater love than this can no man have, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 12, 13
Read the whole comment“For our Redeemer says, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13
Read the whole comment“For “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13
Read the whole comment“For this He testified when He said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: Chap. xv. 13.
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John Chrysostom
“For since he had heard, “Greater love than this hath, no man,” he straightway sprang forward, insatiably eager and desirous to reach even to the highest pitch of virtue.” — editor's note: the words occur later, c. xv. 13
Read the whole comment““So that I ought rather to be admired on this account, for I lay down My life for you.”” — editor's note: Ver. 13. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” N.T.
Read the whole comment““For greater love hath no man than this,” He saith, “that one lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 13.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Greater love than this has no man, than that one should lay down his life for his friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 12, 13.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Having said, If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, He shews what commandments they are to keep: This is My commandment, That ye love one another.
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But when all our Lord’s sacred discourses are full of His commandments, why does He give this special commandment respecting love, if it is not that every commandment teaches love, and all precepts are one? Love and…
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Where then love is, what can be wanting? where it is not, what can profit? But this love is distinguished from men’s love to each other as men, by adding, As I have loved you. To what end did Christ love us, but that…
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The highest, the only proof of love, is to love our adversary; as did the Truth Himself, who while He suffered on the cross, shewed His love for His persecutors: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Having said, This is My commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you, it follows, as John saith in his Epistle, that as Christ laid down His life for us, so we should lay down our lives for the…
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But whoso in time of tranquillity will not give up his time to God, how in persecution will he give up his soul? Let the virtue of love then, that it may be victorious in tribulation, be nourished in tranquillity by…
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From one and the same love, we love God and our neighbour; but God for His own sake, our neighbour for God’s. So that, there being two precepts of love, on which hang all the Law and the Prophets, to love God, and to…
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A friend is as it were a keeper of the soul. He who keeps God’s commandments, is rightly called His friend.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Great condescension! Though to keep his Lord’s commandments, is only what a good servant is obliged to do, yet, if they do so, He calls them His friends. The good servant is both the servant, and the friend. But how…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
As if He said, The servant knoweth not the counsels of his lord; but since I esteem you friends, I have communicated my secrets to you.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
But how did He make known to His disciples all things that He had heard from the Father, when He forebore saying many things, because He knew they as yet could not bear them? He made all things known to His…
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Or all things which He heard from the Father, which He wished to be made known to His servants; the joys of spiritual love, the pleasures of our heavenly country, which He impresses daily on our minds by the…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
All things, i. e. all things that they ought to hear. I have heard, shews that what He had taught was no strange doctrine, but received from the Father.
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But let no one who has attained to this dignity of being called the friend of God, attribute this superhuman gift1 to his own merits: Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Ineffable grace! For what were we before Christ had chosen us, but wicked, and lost? We did not believe in Him, so as to be chosen by Him: for had He chosen us believing, He would have chosen us choosing. This…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
They are chosen then before the foundation of the world, according to that predestination by which God foreknew His future acts. They are chosen out of the world by that call whereby God fulfills what He has…
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Observe, He does not choose the good; but those, whom He hath chosen, He makes good: And I have ordained you that ye should go, and bring forth fruit. This is the fruit which He meant, when He said, Without Me ye can…
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I have set you,i. e. have planted you by grace, that ye should go by will (volendo not in Vulg.); to will being to go in mind, and bring forth fruit, by works. What kind of fruit they should bring forth He then…
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Love then is one fruit, now existing in desire only, not yet in fulness. Yet even with this desire whatever we ask in the name of the Only-Begotten Son, the Father giveth us: That whatsoever ye shall ask the Father…
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Cited together in Catechism §614.
Cited together in Catechism §614.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
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Cited together in Catechism §363 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §609.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 12:4–7 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 12:4–7 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 12:4–7 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 12:4–7 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §614.
Cited together in Catechism §609 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §609.