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John 12

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Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea · Chapter 12

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John 12:1–11

John 12:12–19

  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 — The Law enjoined, that on the tenth day of the first month a lamb or a kid should be shut up in the house, and be kept to the fourteenth day of the same month, on the evening of which day it was sacrificed. In…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 — See how great was the fruit of His preaching, and how large a flock of the lost sheep of the house of Israel heard the voice of their Shepherd: On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (2) — They shewed now at last that they thought Him greater than a prophet: And went forth to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel, that cometh in the name of the Lord.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (2) — Hosanna is a simple exclamation, rather indicating some excitement of the mind, than having any particular meaning; like many interjections that we have in Latin.vatican.va
  • Bede on John 12:12–19 — It is a compound of two words; Hosi is shortened into save; Anna a mere exclamation, complete. Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord here is the name of God the Father; though we may…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (3) — This is what more than any thing made men believe in Christ, viz. the assurance, that He was not opposed to God, that He came from the Father. The words shew us the divinity of Christ. Hosanna is, Save us; and…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (3) — It were a small thing to the King eternal to be made a human king. Christ was not the King of Israel, to exact tribute, and command armies, but to direct souls, and bring them to the kingdom of heaven. For Christ…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 12:12–19 — The Jews, when they called Him King of Israel, dreamed of an earthly king. They expected a king to arise, of more than human greatness, who would deliver them from the government of the Romans. But how did our Lord…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (4) — John relates the matter briefly, the other Evangelists are more full. The ass, we read in them, was the foal of an ass on which no man had sat: i. e. the Gentile world, who had not received our Lord. The other ass,…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (4) — He did this prophetically, to figure the unclean Gentiles being brought into subjection to the Gospel; and also as a fulfilment of prophecy.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (5) — This act of our Lord’s is pointed to in the Prophets, though the malignant rulers of the Jews did not see in it any fulfilment of prophecy: As it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion, behold thy King cometh sitting…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (5) — Or thus: Whereas they had had wicked kings, who had subjected them to wars, He saith to them, Trust Me, I am not such as they, but gentle and mild: which He shewed by the manner of His entrance. For He did not enter…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (6) — i. e. When He shewed the power of His resurrection, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things unto Him, i. e. those things that were written of Him.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (6) — Our Lord had not then revealed these things to them. Indeed it would have been a scandal to them had they known Him to be King at the time of His sufferings. Nor would they have understood the nature of His kingdom,…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 12:12–19 (2) — See then the consequences of our Lord’s passiona. It was not to no purpose that He had reserved His greatest miracle for the last. For the resurrection of Lazarus it was that made the crowd believe in Him. The people…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:12–19 (7) — The crowd was disturbed by the crowd. (Turba turbavit turbam) But why grudgeth that blind crowd, that the world should go after Him, by Whom the world was made?vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:12–19 (7) — The world means here the crowd. This seems to be the speech of that part who were sound in their faith, but dared not profess it. They try to deter the rest by exposing the insuperable difficulties they would have to…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 12:12–19 (3) — As if they said, The more you attack Him, the more will His power and reputation increase. What use then of these attempts?vatican.va

John 12:20–26

  • Bede on John 12:20–26 — The temple at Jerusalem was so famous, that on the feast days, not only the people near, but many Gentiles from distant countries came to worship in it; as that eunuch of Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, mentioned…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 — The time being now near, when they would be made proselytes. They hear Christ talked of, and wish to see Him: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:20–26 — Lo! the Jews wish to kill Him, the Gentiles to see Him. But they also were of the Jews who cried, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. So behold them of the circumcision, and them of the uncircumcision,…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (2) — As being the elder disciple. He had heard our Saviour say, Go not into the way of the Gentiles; (Matt. 10:5) and therefore he communicates with his fellow-disciple, and they refer the matter to their Lord: And again…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:20–26 (2) — Listen we to the voice of the corner stone: And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Did He think Himself glorified, because the Gentiles wished to see? No. But He…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 12:20–26 (2) — He Himself, of the seed of the Patriarchs, was sown in the field of this world, that by dying, He might rise again with increase. He died alone; He rose again with many.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (3) — He illustrates His discourse by an example from nature. A grain of corn produces fruit, after it has died. How much more then must the Son of God? The Gentiles were to be called after the Jews had finally offended;…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:20–26 (3) — This may be understood in two ways: 1. If thou lovest it, lose it: if thou wouldest preserve thy life in Christ, fear not death for Christ. 2. Do not love thy life here, lest thou lose it hereafter. The latter seems…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (4) — He loveth his life in this world, who indulges its inordinate desires; he hateth it, who resists them. It is not, who doth not yield to, but, who hateth. For as we cannot bear to hear the voice or see the face of…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 12:20–26 — It were harsh to say that a man should hate his soul; so He adds, in this world: i. e. for a particular time, not for ever. And we shall gain in the end by so doing: shall keep it unto life eternal.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:20–26 (4) — But think not for an instant, that by hating thy soul, is meant that thou mayest kill thyself. For wicked and perverse men have sometimes so mistaken it, and have burnt and strangled themselves, thrown themselves…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (5) — This present life is sweet to them who are given up to it. But he who looks heavenwards, and sees what good things are there, soon despises this life. When the better life appears, the worse is despised. This is…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:20–26 (5) — But what is it to serve Christ? The very words explain. They serve Christ who seek not their own things, but the things of Jesus Christ, i. e. who follow Him, walk in His, not their own, ways, do all good works for…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (6) — So then death will be followed by resurrection. Where I am, He says; for Christ was in heaven before His resurrection. Thither let us ascend in heart and in mind. If any man serve Me, him will My Father honour. This…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:20–26 (7) — He says, My Father will honour him, not, I will honour him; because they had not yet proper notions of His nature, and thought Him inferior to the Father.vatican.va

John 12:27–33

  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 — To our Lord’s exhortation to His disciples to endurance, they might have replied that it was easy for Him, Who was out of the reach of human pain, to talk philosophically about death, and to recommend others to bear…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 — I hear Him say, He that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal; and I am ravished, I despise the world; the whole of this life, however long, is but a vapour in My sight; all temporal things…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (2) — As He draws near to the Cross, His human nature appears, a nature that did not wish to die, but cleaved to this present life. He shews that He is not quite without human feelings. For the desire of this present life…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (2) — Lastly, let the man who would follow Him, hear at what hour he should follow. A fearful hour has perhaps come: a choice is offered, either to do wrong, or suffer: the weak soul is troubled. Hear our Lord. What shall…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 12:27–33 — i. e. What but something to confirm My followers? Father, save Me from this hour.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (3) — He teaches thee Whom thou shouldest call on, whose will prefer to thine own. Let Him not seem to fall from His greatness, because He wishes thee to rise from thy meanness. He took upon Him man’s infirmity, that He…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (3) — As if He said, I cannot say why I should ask to be saved from it; For for this cause came I unto this hour. However ye may be troubled and dejected at the thought of dying, do not run away from death. I am troubled,…vatican.va
  • Gregory the Great on John 12:27–33 — When God speaks audibly, as He does here, but no visible appearance is seen, He speaks through the medium of a rational creature: i. e. by the voice of an Angel.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (4) — I have glorified it, i. e. before I made the world; and will glorify it again, i. e. when Thou shalt rise from the dead. Or, I have glorified it, when Thou wast born of a Virgin, didst work miracles, wast made…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (4) — The voice though loud and distinct, soon passed off from their gross, carnal, and sluggish minds; only the sound remaining. Others perceived an articulate voice, but did not catch what it said: Others said, An Angel…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (5) — i. e. It did not come to tell Him what He knew already, but them what they ought to know. And as that voice did not come for His sake, but for theirs, so His soul was not troubled for His sake, but for theirs.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (5) — The voice of the Father proved what they were so fond of denying, that He was from God. For He must be from God, if He was glorified by God. It was not that He needed encouragement of such a voice Himself, but He…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (6) — The judgment at the end of the world will be of eternal rewards and punishments. But there is another judgment, not of condemnation, but of selection, which is the one meant here; the selection of His own redeemed,…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (6) — What kind of judgment it is by which the devil is cast out, I will explain by an example. A man demands payment from his debtors, beats them, and sends them to prison. He treats with the same insolence one who owes…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (7) — What is this all that He draweth, but that from which the devil is cast out? He does not say, All men, but, All things; for all men have not faith. He does not mean then all mankind, but the whole of a man, i. e.…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:27–33 (7) — Why then did He say above, that the Father drew men? (c. 6:46.) Because the Father draws, by the Son who draws. I shall draw, He says, as if men were in the grasp of some tyrant, from which they could not extricate…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:27–33 (8) — If I be lifted up from the earth, He says, i. e. when I shall be lifted up. He does not doubt that the work will be accomplished which He came to do. By His being lifted up, He means His passion on the cross, as the…vatican.va

John 12:34–36

John 12:37–43

John 12:44–50

  • John Chrysostom on John 12:44–50 — Because the love of human praise prevented the chief rulers from believing, Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me: as if to say, Why are ye afraid to believe on…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 — He signifies to them that He is more than He appears to be, (for to men He appeared but a man; His Godhead was hid.) Such as the Father is, such am I in nature and in dignity; He that believeth on Me, believeth not…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:44–50 (2) — He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me: as if He said, He that taketh water from a stream, taketh the water not of the stream, but of the fountain. Then to shew that it is not possible…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (2) — Whereby it is evident, that He found all in darkness. In which darkness if they wish not to remain, they must believe in the light which is come into the world. He says in one place to His disciples, Ye are the light…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:44–50 (3) — And to shew that He does not let His despisers go unpunished, from want of power, He adds, And if any man hear My words and believe not, I judge him not.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (3) — i. e. I judge him not now. He does not say, I judge him not at the last day, for that would be contrary to the sentence above, The Father hath committed all judgment unto the Son. (5:22) And the reason follows, why…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:44–50 (4) — But that this might not serve to encourage sloth, He warns men of a terrible judgment coming; He that rejecteth Me, and heareth not My words, hath one that judgeth him.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (4) — Mean time they waited to know who this one was; so He proceeds: The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day. He makes it sufficiently clear that He Himself will judge at the last day. For…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (5) — I judge him not; the word that I have spoken shall judge him: for I have not spoken of Myself. The word which the Son speaks judges, because the Son did not speak of Himself: for I have nut spoken of Myself: i. e. I…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (6) — e I ask then how we shall understand this, I will not judge, but the word which I have spoken will judge? Yet He Himself is the Word of the Father which speaketh. Is it thus? I will not judge by My human power, as…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 12:44–50 (5) — Or, I judge him not, i. e. I am not the cause of his destruction, but he is himself, by despising my words. The words that I have just said, shall be his accusers, and deprive him of all excuse; the word that I have…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (7) — When the Father gave the Son a commandment, He did not give Him what He had not: for in the Wisdom of the Father, i. e. in the Word, are all the commandments of the Father. The commandment is said to be given,…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 12:44–50 — Since the Son is the Word of the Father, and reveals completely what is in the mind of the Father, He says He receives a commandment what He should say, and what He should speak: just as our word, if we say what we…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 12:44–50 (8) — If life everlasting is the Son Himself, and the commandment is life everlasting, what is this but saying, I am the commandment of the Father? And in the same way in the following; Whatsoever I speak therefore, even…vatican.va

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