John 21:12 (WEB)
Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
Catechism · 1
“The Lord's Supper is its center, for there the whole community of the faithful encounters the risen Lord who invites them to his banquet:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 21:12; Lk 24:30.
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John Chrysostom
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Jerome
“And immediately it is added,“And no one durst ask Him, Who art Thou? for they knew that He was the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ib. 12.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The fishing being over, our Lord invites them to dine: Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.
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John does not say that He ate with them, but Luke does. He ate however not to satisfy the wants of nature, but to shew the reality of His resurrection.
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The bodies of the just, when they rise again, shall need neither the word of life that they die not of disease, or old age, nor any bodily nourishment to prevent hunger and thirst. For they shall be endowed with a…
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No one dared to doubt that it was He, much less deny it; so evident was it. Had any one doubted, he would have asked.
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He means that they had not confidence to talk to Him, as before, but sat looking at Him in silence and awe, absorbed in regarding His altered and now supernatural form, and unwilling to ask any question. Knowing that…
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Mystically, the fried fish is Christ Who suffered. And He is the bread that came down from heaven. To Him the Church is united to His body for participation of eternal bliss. Wherefore He says, Bring of the fishes…
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By holding this last feast with seven disciples, he declares that they only who are full of the sevenfold grace of the Holy Spirit, shall be with Him in the eternal feast. Time also is reckoned by periods of seven…
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Inasmuch, however, as He did not converse with them regularly, or in the same way as before, the Evangelist adds, This is now the third time that Jesus shewed Himself to His disciples, after that He was risen from…
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Which has reference not to manifestations, but to days; i. e. the first day after He had risen, eight days after that, when Thomas saw and believed, and this day at the draught of fishes; and thenceforward as often…
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We find in the four Evangelists ten occasions mentioned, on which our Lord was seen after His resurrection: one at the sepulchre by the women; a second by the women returning from the sepulchre; a third by Peter; a…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Catechism §1166.