John 21:13 (WEB)
Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
Catechism · 1
“He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:30, 39-40, 41-43; Jn 20:20, 27; 21:9, 13-15.
Fathers and councils · 12
Jerome
“…is said to have hungered and thirsted, and to have gone frequently to various meals, except in celebrating the mystery whereby He represented His passion, orin proving the reality of His body is nowhere described as ministering to His appetite;who tells of purple-clad Dives in hell for his feasting, and says that…” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiv. 42; S. John xxi. 13.
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John Chrysostom
“But seeing that His form was altered, and full of much awfulness, they were greatly amazed, and desired to ask somewhat concerning it; but fear, and their knowledge that He was not some other, but the Same, checked the enquiry, and they only ate what He created for them with a greater exertion of power than before.” — editor's note: Ver. 13. “Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.” N.T.
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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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