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Bede
Late Patristic · AD 500–800
6,271 passages across 45 books of the Bible · Who was this?
On John
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John 16:29-32
Which can be understood in two ways, either as reproaching, or affirming. If the former, the meaning is, Ye have awaked somewhat late to belief, for behold the hour cometh, yea is now come, that ye shall be scattered every man to his home. If the latter, it is, That which ye believe is true, but behold the hour cometh, &c.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 17:1
These things spake Jesus, those things that He had said at the supper, partly sitting as far as the words, Arise, let us go hence; (c. 14:31.) and thence standing, up to the end of the hymn which now commences, And lifted up His eyes and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son.
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John 17:6-7
And they have kept Thy word. He calls Himself the Word of the Father, because the Father by Him created all things, and because He contains in Himself all words: as if to say, They have committed Me to memory so well, that they never will forget Me. Or, They have kept Thy word, i. e. in that they have believed in Me: as it follows, Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me, are of Thee. Some read, Now I have known, &c. But this cannot be correct. For how could the Son be ignorant of what was the Father's? It is the disciples He is speaking of; as if to say, They have learnt that there is nothing in Me alien from Thee, and that whatever I teach cometh from Thee.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 17:15
As if to say, The time is now at hand, when I shall be taken out of the world; and therefore it is necessary that they should be still left in the world, in order to preach Me and Thee to the world. But that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil; every evil, but especially the evil of schism.
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John 17:24
That which He calls glory then is the love wherewith He was loved with the Father before the foundation of the world. And in that glory He loved us too before the foundation of the world.
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John 18:13-14
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 Providence, that they who were allied in blood, should be associated in guilt. That Caiaphas however was high priest for that year sounds contrary to the law, which ordained that there be only one high priest, and made the office hereditary. But the pontificate had now been abandoned to ambitious men.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 18:24
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 order to be examined, after which He was bound again, and sent to Caiaphas.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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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 resurrection is signified; by the second, the general resurrection at the end of the world. By the first damsel, who obliged Peter to deny, is denoted lust, by the second, carnal delight: by one or more servants, the devils who persuade men to deny Christ.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 18:28
The praetorium is the place where the praetor sat. Praetors were called prefects and preceptors, because they issue decrees.
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.(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 18:39
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 tries to persuade them: Will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews.
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John 18:40
Inasmuch then as they abandoned the Saviour, and sought out a robber, to this day the devil practises his robberies upon them.
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John 19:2
For instead of a diadem, they put upon Him a crown of thorns, and a purple robe to represent the purple robe which kings wear. Matthew says, a scarlet robe, (Mat. 27:28) but scarleta and purple are different names for the same colour. And though the soldiers did this in mockery, yet to us their acts have a meaning. For by the crown of thorns is signified the taking of our sins upon Him, the thorns which the earth of our body brings forth. And the purple robe signifies the flesh crucified. For our Lord is robed in purple, wherever He is glorified by the triumphs of holy martyrs.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 19:8
It was not the law that he was afraid of, as he was a stranger: but he was more afraid, lest he should slay the Son of God.
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John 19:13
Lithostraton, i. e. laid with stone; the word signifies pavement. It was an elevated place.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 19:14
And it was the preparation of the Passover.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 19:19
Wherein was shown that His kingdom was not, as they thought, destroyed, but rather strengthened.
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John 19:26
Beyond the others, Jesus loved the one who, being a virgin when chosen by him, remained forever a virgin. Now stories handed down say the [Christ] called [John] from his marriage ceremony when he wished to marry, and on that account he granted the more desirable sweetness of his own love to one whom he had withdrawn from fleshly pleasures. Accordingly, when [Christ] was about to die on the cross, he commended his mother to [John], so that virgin might watch over virgin, and when he himself ascended to heaven after his death and resurrection, a son would not be lacking to his mother, whose chaste life would be protected by his chaste services.
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John 19:26-27
By the disciple whom Jesus loved, the Evangelist means himself; not that the others were not loved, but he was loved more intimately on account of his estate of chastity; for a Virgin our Lord called him, and a Virgin he ever remained.
Another reading is, Accepit eam discipulus in suam, his own mother some understand, but to his own care seems better.(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 19:30
It may be asked here, why it is said, When Jesus had received the vinegar, when another Evangelists says, He would not drink. (Mat. 27:34) But this is easily settled. He did not receive the vinegar, to drink it, but fulfil the prophecy.
(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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John 19:31
Parasceve is interpreted as preparation.… They called it this as the day when it was necessary that they prepare for the sabbath according to the command they had received concerning the manna, “On the sixth day you shall gather double, etc.” … Therefore, because it was on the sixth day that human beings were made and the whole creation of the world completed, but on the seventh day it was required that he rested from his work and this is the sabbath, that is, rest—so it is only right to call that the day on which our Lord was crucified the sixth day fulfilling the reparation of humanity back to what it was at the beginning. [And we read], “And when he received the strong drink, he said ‘It is finished,’ ” that is, the work of the sixth day is perfect as I have totally accomplished the restoration of the world. But on the sabbath he rests in the sepulcher awaiting the event of the resurrection, which will occur on the eight day.