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John 18

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Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea · Chapter 18

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John 18:1–2

  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:1–2 — The discourse, which our Lord had with His disciples after supper, and the prayer which followed, being now ended, the Evangelist begins the account of His Passion. When Jesus had spoken these words, He came forth…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:1–2 (2) — A contention took place between them, which of them was the greater, as Luke relates. He also said to Peter, as Luke adds in the same place, Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:1–2 (3) — When Jesus had spoken these words, shews that He did not enter before He had finished speaking.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:1–2 — But why does not John say, When He had prayed, He entered? Because His prayer was a speaking for His disciples’ sake. It is now night time; He goes and crosses the brook, and hastens to the place which was known to…vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:1–2 — Over the brook Cedron, i. e. of cedars. It is the genitive in the Greek. He goes over the brook, i. e. drinks of the brook of His Passion. Where there was a garden, that the sin which was committed in a garden, He…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:1–2 (2) — That it might not be thought that He went into a garden to hide Himself, it is added, But Judas who betrayed Him knew the place: for Jesus often resorted thither with His disciples.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:1–2 (4) — There the wolf in sheep’s clothing, permitted by the deep counsel of the Master of the flock to go among the sheep, learned in what way to disperse the flock, and ensnare the Shepherd.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:1–2 (3) — Jesus had often met and talked alone with His disciples there, on essential doctrines, such as it was lawful for others to hear. He does this on mountains, and in gardens, to be out of reach of noise and tumult.…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:1–2 — Judas knew that at the feast time our Lord was wont to teach His disciples high and mysterious doctrines, and that He taught in places like this. And as it was then a solemn season, he thought He would be found…vatican.va

John 18:3–9

  • Glossa Ordinaria on John 18:3–9 — The Evangelist had shewn how Judas had found out the place where Christ was, now he relates how he went there. Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:3–9 — It was a band not of Jews, but of soldiers, granted, we must understand, by the Governor, with legal authority to take the criminal, as He was considered, and crush any opposition that might be made.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 — But how could they persuade the band? By hiring them; for being soldiers, they were ready to do any thing for money.vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:3–9 — They carry torches and lanterns, to guard against Christ escaping in the dark.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 (2) — They had often sent elsewhere to take Him, but had not been able. Whence it is evident that He gave Himself up voluntarily; as it follows, Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon Him, went forth,…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:3–9 (2) — He asks not because He needed to know, for He knew all things that should come upon Him; but because He wished to shew, that though present, they could not see or distinguish Him: Jesus saith unto them, I am He.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 (3) — He Himself had blinded their eyes. For that darkness was not the reason is clear, because the Evangelist says that they had lanterns. Though they had not lanterns, however, they should at least have recognised Him by…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:3–9 (2) — As soon then as He said unto them, I am He, they went backtward. Where now is the band of soldiers, where the terror and defence of arms? Without a blow, one word struck, drove back, prostrated a crowd fierce with…vatican.va
  • Gregory the Great on John 18:3–9 — Why is this, that the Elect fall on their faces, the reprobate backward? Because every one who falls back, sees not where he falls, whereas he who falls forward, sees where he falls. The wicked when they suffer loss…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 (4) — Lastly, lest any should say that He had encouraged the Jews to kill Him, in delivering Himself into their hands, He says every thing that is possible to reclaim them. But when they persisted in their malice, and…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:3–9 (3) — They had heard at the first, I am He, but had not understood it; because He who could do whatever He would, willed not that they should. But had He never permitted Himself to be taken by them, they would not have…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 (5) — As if to say, Though ye seek Me, ye have nothing to do with these: lo, I give Myself up: thus even to the last hour does He shew His love for His own.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:3–9 (4) — He commands His enemies, and they do what He commands; they permit them to go away, whom He would not have perish.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:3–9 (6) — The Evangelist, to shew that it was not their design to do this, but that His power did it, adds, That the saying might be fulfilled which He spoke, Of them which Thou hast given Me, have I lost none. He had said…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:3–9 (5) — But were the disciples never to die? Why then would He lose them, even if they died then? Because they did not yet believe in Him in a saving way.vatican.va

John 18:10–11

John 18:12–14

  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:12–14 — Every thing having been done that could be to dissuade the Jews, and they refusing to take warning, He suffered Himself to be delivered into their hands: Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:12–14 — They took Him Whom they did not draw nigh to; nor understood that which is written in the Psalms, Draw nigh unto Him, and be ye lightened. (Ps. 34:5. accedite ad eum, Vulg.) For had they thus drawn nigh to Him, they…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:12–14 — In exultation, to shew what they had done, as if they were raising a trophy.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:12–14 (2) — Why they did so, he tells us immediately after: For he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year. Matthew, in order to shorten the narrative, says that He was led to Caiaphas; because He…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:12–14 — In order that, while our Lord was condemned by his colleague, he might not be guiltless, though his crime was less. Or perhaps his house lay in the way, and they were obliged to pass by it. Or it was the design of…vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:12–14 — Josephus relates that this Caiaphas bought the high priesthood for this year. No wonder then if a wicked high priest judged wickedly. A man who was advanced to the priesthood by avarice, would keep himself there by…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:12–14 (2) — That no one however might be disturbed at the sound of the chains, the Evangelist reminds them of the prophecy that His death would be the salvation of the world: Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews,…vatican.va

John 18:15–18

John 18:19–21

  • John Chrysostom on John 18:19–21 — As they could bring no charge against Christ, they asked Him of His disciples: The high priest then asked Jesus of His disciples; perhaps where they were, and on what account He had collected them, he wished to prove…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:19–21 — He asks Him moreover of His doctrine, what it was, whether opposed to Moses and the law, that he might take occasion thereby to put Him to death as an enemy of God.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:19–21 — He does not ask in order to know the truth, but to find out some charge against Him, on which to deliver Him to the Roman Governor to be condemned. But our Lord so tempers His answer, as neither to conceal the truth,…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:19–21 — There is a difficulty here not to be passed over: if He did not speak openly even to His disciples, but only promised that He would do so at some time, how was it that He spoke openly to the world? He spoke more…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:19–21 (2) — He refers here to the prophecy of Esaias; I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. (Isa. 45:19)vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:19–21 (2) — Or, He spoke in secret, but not, as these thought, from fear, or to excite sedition; but only when what He said was above the understanding of the many. To establish the matter, however, upon superabundant evidence,…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:19–21 (2) — For what they had heard and not understood, was not of such a kind, as that they could justly turn it against Him. And as often as they tried by questioning to find out some charge against Him, He so replied as to…vatican.va

John 18:22–24

  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:22–24 — When Jesus had appealed to the testimony of the people by, an officer, wishing to clear himself, and shew that he was not one of those who admired our Lord, struck Him: And when He had thus spoken, one of the…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:22–24 — This shews that Annas was the high priest, for this was before He was sent to Caiaphas. And Luke in the beginning of his Gospel says, that Annas and Caiaphas were both high priests.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:22–24 — Here is fulfilled the prophecy, I gave my cheek to the smiters. Jesus, though struck unjustly, replied gently: Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou Me?vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:22–24 (2) — As if to say, If thou hast any fault to find with what I have said, shew it; if thou hast not, why ragest thou? Or thus: If I taught any thing unadvisedly, when I taught in the synagogues, give proof of it to the…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:22–24 (2) — What can be truer, gentler, kinder, than this answer? He Who received the blow on the face neither wished for him who struck it that fire from heaven should consume him, or the earth open its mouth and swallow him;…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:22–24 — What should they do then but either disprove, or admit, what He said? Yet this they do not do: it is not a trial they are carrying on, but a faction, a tyranny. Not knowing what to do further, they send Him to…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:22–24 (3) — Thinking that as he was more cunning, he might find out something against Him worthy of death.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:22–24 (3) — He was the one to whom they were taking Him from the first, as Matthew says; he being the high priest of this year. We must understand that the pontificate was taken between them year by year alternately, and that it…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:22–24 — Sent Him bound, not that He was bound now for the first time, for they bound Him when they took Him. They sent Him bound as they had brought Him. Or perhaps He may have been loosed from His bonds for that hour, in…vatican.va

John 18:25–27

  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:25–27 — After the Evangelist has said that they sent Jesus bound from Annas to Caiaphas, he returns to Peter and his three denials, which took place in the house of Annas: And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. He repeats…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:25–27 — Or, He means that the once fervid disciple was now too torpid, to move even when our Lord was carried away: shewing thereby how weak man’s nature is, when God forsakes him. Asked again, he again denies: They said…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:25–27 (2) — Here we find Peter not at the gate, but at the fire, when he denies the second time: so that he must have returned after he had gone out of doors, where Matthew says he was. He did not go out, and another damsel see…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:25–27 (2) — But neither did the garden bring back to his memory what he had then said, and the great professions of love he had made: Peter then denied again, and immediately the cock crew.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:25–27 (3) — Lo, the prophecy of the Physician is fulfilled, the presumption of the sick man demonstrated. That which Peter had said he would do, he had not done. I will lay down my life for Thy sake; but what our Lord had…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:25–27 (3) — The Evangelists have all given the same account of the denials of Peter, not with any intention of throwing blame upon him, but to teach us how hurtful it is to trust in self, and not ascribe all to God.vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:25–27 — Mystically, by the first denial of Peter are denoted those who before our Lord’s Passion denied that He was God, by the second, those who did so after His resurrection. So by the first crowing of the cock His…vatican.va

John 18:28–32

  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 — The Evangelist returns to the part where he had left off, in order to relate Peter’s denial: Then led they Jesus to Caiaphas (a Caiapha Vulg.) unto the hall of judgment: to Caiaphas from his colleague and father in…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:28–32 — The prætorium is the place where the prætor sat. Prætors were called prefects and preceptors, because they issue decrees.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (2) — Either then for some urgent reason Caiaphas proceeded from the house of Annas, where both had been sitting, to the prætorium of the governor, and left Jesus to the hearing of his father in law: or Pilate had…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (3) — According to Matthew, When the morning came, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate. (Mat. 27:1, 2) But He was to have been led to Caiaphas at first. How is it then that He was brought to him so late?…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:28–32 — He was led to Caiaphas before the cock crew, but early in the morning to Pilate. Whereby the Evangelist shews, that all that night of examination, ended in proving nothing against Him; and that He was sent to Pilate…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (4) — And they themselves entered not into the judgment hall: i. e. into that part of the house which Pilate occupied, supposing it to be the house of Caiaphas. Why they did not enter is next explained: Lest they should be…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:28–32 (2) — For the Jews were then celebrating the passover; He Himself celebrated it one day before, reserving His own death for the sixth day; on which day the old passover was kept. Or, perhaps, the passover means the whole…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (5) — The days of unleavened bread were beginning; during which time it was defilement to enter the house of a stranger.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:28–32 — The passover was strictly the fourteenth day of the month, the day on which the lamb was killed in the evening: the seven days following were called the days of unleavened bread, in which nothing leavened ought to be…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (6) — O impious blindness! They feared to be defiled by the judgment hall of a foreign prefect, to shed the blood of an innocent brother they feared not. For that He Whom they killed was the Lord and Giver of life, their…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:28–32 — Pilate however proceeds in a more gentle way: Pilate then went out unto them.vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:28–32 (2) — It was the custom of the Jews when they condemned any one to death, to notify it to the governor, by delivering the man bound.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:28–32 (3) — Pilate however seeing Him bound, and such numbers conducting Him, supposed that they had not unquestionable evidence against Him, so proceeds to ask the question: And said, What accusation bring ye against this Man?…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (7) — Ask the freed from unclean spirits, the blind who saw, the dead who came to life again, and, what is greater than all, the fools who were made wise, and let them answer, whether Jesus was a malefactor. But they…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (8) — But is not this account contradictory to Luke’s, who mentions certain positive charges: And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar,…vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:28–32 (2) — As if to say, Since you will only have such a trial as will suit you, and are proud, as if you never did any thing profane, take ye Him, and condemn Him; I will not be made a judge for such a purpose.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:28–32 (2) — Or as if he said, Ye who have the law, know what the law judgeth concerning such: do what ye know to be just. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (9) — But did not the law command not to spare malefactors, especially deceivers such as they thought Him? We must understand them however to mean, that the holiness of the day which they were beginning to celebrate, made…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:28–32 (4) — Or, they were not allowed by the Roman law to put Him to death themselves. Or, Pilate having said, Judge Him according to your law, they reply, It is not lawful for us: His sin is not a Jewish one, He hath not sinned…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (10) — As we read in Mark, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles. (Mark…vatican.va

John 18:33–38

John 18:38–40

  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:38–40 — After Pilate had asked, What is truth? he remembered a custom of the Jews, of releasing one prisoner at the passover, and did not wait for Christ’s answer, for fear of losing this chance of saving Him, which he much…vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:38–40 — He knew that this question required time to answer, and it was necessary immediately to rescue Him from the fury of the Jews. So he went out.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:38–40 — Or, he did not wait to hear the reply, because he was unworthy to hear it. And saith unto them, I find no fault in Him.vatican.va
  • John Chrysostom on John 18:38–40 (2) — He did not say, He has sinned and is worthy of death; yet release Him at the feast; but acquitting Him in the first place, he does more than he need do, and asks it as a favour, that, if they are unwilling to let Him…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:38–40 — This custom was not commanded in the law, but had been handed down by tradition from the old fathers, viz. that in remembrance of their deliverance out of Egypt, they should release a prisoner at the passover. Pilate…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:38–40 (2) — He could not dismiss the idea from his mind, that Jesus was King of the Jews; as if the Truth itself, whom he had just asked what it was, had inscribed it there as a title.vatican.va
  • Theophylact of Ohrid on John 18:38–40 — Pilate is judicious in replying that Jesus had done nothing wrong, and that there was no reason to suspect Him of aiming at a kingdom. For they might be sure that if He set Himself up as a King, and a rival of the…vatican.va
  • Augustine of Hippo on John 18:38–40 (3) — Upon this they cried out: Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. We blame you not, O Jews, for releasing a guilty man at the passover, but for killing an innocent…vatican.va
  • Bede on John 18:38–40 (2) — Inasmuch then as they abandoned the Saviour, and sought out a robber, to this day the devil practises his robberies upon them.vatican.va
  • Alcuin of York on John 18:38–40 (2) — The name Barabbas signifies, The son of their master, i. e. the devil; his master in his wickedness, the Jews’ in their perfidy.vatican.va

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