John 3:11 (WEB)
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.
Fathers and councils · 14
Hippolytus of Rome
“And again: “He who came down from heaven testifieth what He hath heard and seen.”” — editor's note: John iii. 11, 13.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…Himself saith, “As I hear, I judge” ( c. v. 30 ); and, “What I have heard from My Father, that I speak” ( c. xv. 15 ); and, “We speak that We have seen” ( c. iii. 11 ); and whatsoever other sayings He uttereth of the kind, are uttered not that we might imagine that He saith what He doth being taught of any, (it…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Thus also John crieth, saying beforehand, “He speaketh that He knoweth, and testifieth that He hath seen, and no man receiveth His testimony” ( c. iii. 32 ); and again Christ Himself, “We speak that We do know, and testify that We have seen” ( c. iii. 11 ), “and ye believe not.”” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- Haymo of HalberstadtCatena Aurea on John
Nicodemus cannot take in the mysteries of the Divine Majesty, which our Lord reveals, and therefore asks how it is, not denying the fact, not meaning any censure, but wishing to be informed: Nicodemus answered and…
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Forasmuch then as he still remains a Jew, and, after such clear evidence, persists in a low and carnal system, Christ addresses him henceforth with greater severity: Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
What think we? that our Lord wished to insult this master in Israel? He wished him to be born of the Spirit: and no one is born of the Spirit except he is made humble; for this very humility it is, which makes us to…
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Nevertheless He does not charge the man with wickedness, but only with want of wisdom, and enlightenment. But some one will say, What connexion hath this birth, of which Christ speaks, with Jewish doctrines? Thus…
Read the whole comment - Haymo of HalberstadtCatena Aurea on John
Why, it is asked, does He speak in the plural number, We speak that we do know? Because the speaker being the Only-Begotten Son of God, He would shew that the Father was in the Son, and the Son in the Father, and the…
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Or, the plural number may have this meaning; I, and they who are born again of the Spirit, alone understand what we speak; and having seen the Father in secret, this we testify openly to the world; and ye, who are…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
This is not said of Nicodemus, but of the Jewish race, who to the very last persisted in unbelief.
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They are words of gentleness, not of anger; a lesson to us, when we: argue and cannot converse, not by sore and angry words, but by the absence of anger and clamour, (for clamour is the material of anger,) to prove…
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That is: If ye do not believe that I can raise up a temple, which you have thrown down, how can ye believe that men can be regenerated by the Holy Ghost?
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Or thus: Be not surprised at His calling Baptism earthly. It is performed upon earth, and is compared with that stupendous birth, which is of the substance of the Father, an earthly birth being one of mere grace. And…
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 3:9–12 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 3:9–12 (2) (Catena Aurea).