John 20:19 (WEB)
When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
Catechism · 4
Jesus and Israel
“Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction", but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews",” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:19; 2:18; 5:10; 7:13; 9:22; 18:12; 19:38; 20:19.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“Far from showing us a community seized by a mystical exaltation, the Gospels present us with disciples demoralized ("looking sad"” — Catechism footnote: 1 Lk 24:17; cf. Jn 20:19.
“Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ's humanity can no longer be confined to earth, and belongs henceforth only to the Father's divine realm.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:9, 16-17; Lk 24:15, 36; Jn 20:14, 17, 19, 26; 21:4.
"He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"
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“Christ's body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Lk 24:31; Jn 20:19, 26.
Fathers and councils · 35
Jerome
“Moreover, if we deny the identity of His body because He entered though the doors were shut, and this is not a property of human bodies, we must deny also that Peter and the Lord had real bodies because they…” — editor's note: S. John xx. 19.
Read the whole comment“For Jesus has entered in through the closed doors, and in His sepulchre—a new one hewn out of the hardest rock—no man is laid either before Him or after Him.” — editor's note: Joh. xx. 19.
Read the whole comment“And if from our Lord’s entering in through closed doors you strive to prove that His body was spiritual and aerial, He must have had this spiritual body even before He suffered; since—contrary to the nature of heavy bodies—He was able to walk upon the sea.” — editor's note: Joh. xx. 19.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Mark
“But there were some there who did not believe; when these then were sitting at meat, (as Mark says,) and were still speaking, (as Luke relates,) “The Lord stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you;” [Luke 24:36] as Luke and John [John 20:19] say.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“And when He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side.”” — editor's note: John xx. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“By the mountains themselves it was said to the Church, “Peace be with you;” and the mountains themselves in proclaiming peace to the Church did not divide themselves against Him from whom they received peace, that truly, not feignedly, they might proclaim peace.” — editor's note: John xx. 19.
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John Chrysostom
“…afraid, (which thing itself especially made their yearning greater,) He then, when it was evening, presented Himself before them, and that very marvelously.” — editor's note: Ver. 19. “Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came…
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Leo the Great
“…of these and other miracles, when the disciples were harassed by bewildering thoughts, and the Lord had appeared in their midst and said, “Peace be unto you,” that what was passing through their hearts might not be their fixed opinion (for they thought they saw a spirit not flesh), He refutes their thoughts so…” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 36: S. John xx. 19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Such is the meaning of the phrase, “Peace to thee.”” — editor's note: [A primitive form of Christian salutation, borrowed from the great Example. John xx. 19.]
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
The disciples, when they heard what Mary told them, were obliged either to disbelieve, or, if they believed, to grieve that He did not count them worthy to have the sight of Him. He did not let them however pass a…
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Wherein is shewn the infirmity of the Apostles. They assembled with doors shut, through that same fear of the Jews, which had before scattered them: Came Jesus, and stood in the midst. He came in the evening, because…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Or because He waited till all were assembled: and with shut doors, that he might shew how that in the very same way he had risen again, i. e. with the stone lying on the scpulchre.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Some are strongly indisposed to believe this miracle, and argue thus: If the same body rose again, which hung upon the Cross, how could that body enter through shut doors? But if thou comprehendest the mode, it is no…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The shut door did not hinder the body, wherein Divinity resided. He could enter without open doors, who was born without a violation of His mother’s virginity.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
It is wonderful that they did not think him a phantom. But Mary had provided against this, by the faith she had wrought in them. And He Himself too shewed Himself so openly, and strengthened their wavering minds by…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
And because their faith wavered even with the material body before them, He shewed them His hands and side: And when He had said this, He shewed them His hands and His side.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The nails had pierced His hands, the lance had pierced His side. For the healing of doubting hearts, the marks of the wounds were still preserved.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
And what He had promised before the crucifixion, I shall see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, is now fulfilled: Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The glory, wherewith the righteous shall shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father, i. e. in Christ’s body, we must believe to have been rather veiled than not to have been there at all. He accommodated His…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
All these things brought them to a most confident faith. As they were in endless war with the Jews, He says again, Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on John
A repetition is a confirmation: whether He repeats it because the grace of love is twofold, or because He it is who made of twain one.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
At the same time He shews the efficacy of the cross, by which He undoes all evil things, and gives all good things; which is peace. To the women above there was announced joy; for that sex was in sorrow, and had…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
The Father sent the Son, appointed Him to the work of redemption. He says therefore, As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you; i. e. I love you, now that I send you to persecution, with the same love wherewith…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
We have learnt that the Son is equal to the Father: here He shews Himself Mediator; He Me, and I you.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Having then given them confidence by His own miracles, and appealing to Him who sent Him, He uses a prayer to the Father, but of His own authority gives them power: And when He had said thus, He breathed on them, and…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
That corporeal breath was not the substance of the Holy Ghost, but to shew, by meet symbol, that the Holy Ghost proceeded not only from the Father, but the Son. For who would be so mad as to say, that it was one…
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But why is He first given to the disciples on earth, and afterwards sent from heaven? Because there are two commandments of love, to love God, and to love our neighbour. The spirit to love our neighbour is given on…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Some say that by breathing He did not give them the Spirit, but made them meet to receive the Spirit. For if Daniel’s senses were so overpowered by the sight of the Angel, how would they have been overwhelmed in…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The love of the Church, which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, remits the sins of those who partake of it; but retains the sins of those who do not. Where then He has said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost,…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
We must understand that those who first received the Holy Ghost, for innocence of life in themselves, and preaching to a few others, received it openly after the resurrection, that they might profit not a few only,…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
A priest though he may have ordered well his own life, yet, if he have not exercised proper vigilance over others, is sent to hell with the evil doers. Wherefore, knowing the greatness of their danger, pay them all…
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Didymus, double or doubtful, because he doubted in believing: Thomas, depth, because with most sure faith he penetrated into the depth of our Lord’s divinity.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
It was not an accident that that particular disciple was not present. The Divine mercy ordained that a doubting disciple should, by feeling in his Master the wounds of the flesh, heal in us the wounds of unbelief.…
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But why does this Evangelist say that Thomas was absent, when Luke writes that two disciples on their return from Emmaus found the eleven assembled? We must understand that Thomas had gone out, and that in the…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
As to believe directly, (ἁπλῶς) and any how, is the mark of too easy a mind, so is too much enquiring of a gross one: and this is Thomas’s fault. For when the Apostle said, We have seen the Lord, he did not believe,…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Catechism §643.
Cited together in Catechism §643.
Cited together in Catechism §643 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §643.
Cited together in Catechism §643.
Cited together in Catechism §643.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:14–18 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.