John 20:31 (WEB)
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Catechism · 3
Sacred Scripture
“…on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."” — Catechism footnote: DV 11; cf. Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pt 1:19-21; 3:15-16
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“…the beginning this acknowledgment of Christ's divine sonship will be the centre of the apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as the Church's foundation.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Th 1:10; Jn 20:31; Mt 16:18.
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“What is written in the Gospels was set down there "so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 20:31.
Fathers and councils · 22
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…saying: “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have eternal life in His name,”—foreseeing these blasphemous systems which divide the Lord, as far as lies in their power, saying that He was formed of two different substances.” — editor's note: John xx. 31.
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Tertullian
“And so He showed, of course, that He was not the Father, but the Son; and elsewhere He is expressly called “the Christ, the Son of God,” and not the Father.” — editor's note: John xx. 31.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore also does this Gospel, at its very termination, intimate that these things were ever written, if it be not, to use its own words, “that ye might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?”” — editor's note: John xx. 31.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“The three Gospels already mentioned having come into the hands of all and into his own too, they say that he accepted them and bore witness to their truthfulness; but that there was lacking in them an account of the deeds done by Christ at the beginning of his ministry.” — editor's note: No writer before Eusebius’ time, so far as is known, assigned the reason given by him for the composition of John’s Gospel. Jerome, de vir. ill. chap. 9,…
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Ambrose of Milan
“He is called the Word, the Son, the Power of God, the Wisdom of God.” — editor's note: S. John i. 1, 14; xx. 31; Rom. i. 4; S. Matt. xxviii. 18; 1 Cor. i. 24; Col. ii. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Let us see what is the purpose which he confesses;—But these things are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.” — editor's note: St. John xx. 31.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Consider the mercy of the Lord, how for the sake of one soul, He exhibits His wounds. And yet the disciples deserved credit, and He had Himself foretold the event. Notwithstanding, because one person, Thomas, would…
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You ask; If He entered by the shut door, where is the nature of His body? (ubi est modus corporis.) And I reply; If He walked on the sea, where is the weight of His body? The Lord did that as the Lord; and did He,…
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Jesus then comes Himself, and does not wait till Thomas interrogates Him. But to shew that He heard what Thomas said to the disciples, He uses the same words. And first He rebukes him; Then saith He to Thomas, Reach…
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He might, had He pleased, have wiped all spot and trace of wound from His glorified body; but He had reasons for retaining them. He shewed them to Thomas, who would not believe except he saw and touched; and He will…
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We are, as I know not how, afflicted with such love for the blessed martyrs, that we would wish in that kingdom to see on their bodies the marks of those wounds which they have borne for Christ’s sake. And perhaps we…
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Our Lord gave that flesh to be touched which He had introduced through shut doors: wherein two wonderful, and, according to human reason, contradictory things appear, viz. that after the resurrection He had a body…
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Our body also in that resurrection to glory will be subtle by means of the action of the Spirit, but palpable by its true nature, not, as Eutychius says, impalpable, and subtler than the winds and the air.
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Thomas saw and touched the man, and confessed the God whom he neither saw nor touched. By means of the one he believed the other undoubtingly: Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.
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He who had been before unbelieving, after touching the body shewed himself the best divine; for he asserted the twofold nature and one Person of Christ; by saying, My Lord, the human nature, by saying, My God, the…
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He saith not, Hast touched me, but, hast seen me; the sight being a kind of general sense, and put in the place often of the other four senses; as when we say, Hear, and see how well it sounds; smell, and see how…
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But when the Apostle says, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, (Heb. 11:1) it is plain that things which are seen, are objects not of faith, but of knowledge. Why then is it…
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He uses the past tense, the future to His knowledge having already taken place by His own predestination.
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If any one then says, Would that I had lived in those times, and seen Christ doing miracles! let him reflect, Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
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Here He means the disciples who had believed without seeing the print of the nails, and His side.
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John having related less than the other Evangelists, adds, And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book. Yet neither did the others relate all, but only…
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Catechism §442.
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Cited together in Catechism §442.
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Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §105.
Cited together in Catechism §442.
Cited together in Catechism §442.
Cited together in Catechism §442.