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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	6 <p align=center><B>LECTURE I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	7 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	8 his disciples across the Kidron valley [brook], where there was a garden, which
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	9 he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	10 place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas, procuring a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	11 band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	12 went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Then Jesus, knowing all
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	13 that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" 5
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	14 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth. "Jesus said to them, I am he." Judas,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	15 who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When he said to them, "I am he,"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	16 they drew back and fell to the ground. 7 Again he asked them, "Whom do you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	17 seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	18 am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go." 9 This was to fulfill the word
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	19 which he had spoken, "Of those whom you gave me I lost not one."<a href="#_ftn1"
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	21
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	22 <p>2271 Before his passion, as we saw above, our Lord prepared
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	23 his disciples in many ways: teaching them by his example, comforting them with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	24 his words, and aiding them by his prayers. Now the Evangelist begins the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	25 history of the passion: first, he sets forth the mystery of the passion; secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	26 the glory of the resurrection (20:1).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	27
33 d79bd8213f32 remove pIndent ht parents: 31 diff changeset	28 <p>Christ's passion was effected partly by the Jews,
31 25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	29 and partly by the Gentiles. Thus, he first describes what Christ suffered from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	30 the Jews; secondly, what he suffered from the Gentiles (19:1). He does three things
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	31 regarding the first: he shows how our Lord was betrayed by a disciple;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	32 secondly, how he was brought before the high priests (v 13); and thirdly, how
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	33 he was accused before Pilate (v 28).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	34
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	35 <p>In regard to Christ's betrayal, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	36 Evangelist mentions three things: first, the place; secondly, the procedure;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	37 and thirdly, the willingness of Christ to submit to the betrayal (v 4). The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	38 place of the betrayal was shown to be appropriate in three ways: because it was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	39 outside the city; it was private and enclosed; and it was known to the traitor.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	40
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	41 <p>2272 The place of the betrayal was some distance from the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	42 city, and so Judas could more easily do what he intended. The Evangelist says, <b>When
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	43 Jesus had spoken these words, </b>the words we have read above. But since what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	44 Christ said belonged to his prayer, it would seem more appropriate for the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	45 Evangelist to say, "When Jesus had prayed." The Evangelist put it the way he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	46 did to show that Christ did not pray because of any need of his own, since he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	47 was the one who, as man, prayed, and who, as God, heard the prayer. Rather,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	48 Christ prayed in order to teach us. Thus this prayer is described as "spoken
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	49 words."
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	50
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	51 <p>2273 <b>He went forth with his disciples, </b>but not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	52 immediately after this prayer, as Augustine notes.<a href="#_ftn2"
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	54 Other things happened, omitted by this Evangelist, but mentioned by the others.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	55 For example, there was an argument among the disciples about who was to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	56 regarded as the greatest (Lk 22:24); before setting out he said to Peter:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	57 "Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	58 prayed for you that your faith may not fail" (Lk 22:31); again, the disciples
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	59 recited a hymn with the Lord, as Matthew (26:30) and Mark (14:26) report. And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	60 so we should not think that they went out immediately after the words of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	61 previous chapter, but that Christ said these things before they went out.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	62
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	63 <p>2274 He went forth <b>across the Kidron brook. </b>Matthew
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	64 and Mark say that they went to the Mount of Olives, and then to a garden called
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	65 Gethsemane. There is no conflict here, because all of them are referring to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	66 the same place, for the Kidron brook is at the foot of the Mount of Olives,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	67 where there was a garden called Gethsemane. In Greek, Kidron is genitive
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	68 plural; and so in effect he is saying a brook "of cedars." Perhaps there were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	69 many cedar trees planted there.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	70
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	71 <p>It is fitting for this mystery that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	72 he cross a brook, because the brook indicates his passion: "He will drink from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	73 the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head" (Ps 110:7). Again, it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	74 is fitting that he cross the Kidron brook for Kidron is interpreted to mean an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	75 overshadowing, and by his passion Christ removed the shadow of sin and of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	76 law, and stretching out his arms on the cross, he protected us under the shadow
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	77 of his arms: "Hide me in the shadow of your wings" (Ps 17:8).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	78
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	79 <p>2275 The place was especially suitable for the betrayal. He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	80 says, <b>there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. </b>This was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	81 especially suitable because Christ was satisfying for the sin of our first
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	82 parent which had been committed in a garden (for paradise means a garden of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	83 delights). It was also suitable because by his passion he is leading us into
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	84 another garden and paradise to receive a crown: "Today you will be with me in Paradise" (Lk 23:43).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	85
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	86 <p>2276 It was also an appropriate place because it was known
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	87 to the traitor, <b>now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	88 often met there with his disciples, </b>including Judas, who was like a wolf
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	89 among sheep: "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	90 (6:71). This wolf in sheep's clothing, who had been tolerated among the sheep
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	91 according to the profound plan of the master, learned where he could scatter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	92 the small flock when the time came.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	93
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	94 <p>2277 Since Judas had left the supper a while before the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	95 others, how did he know that Christ would later be in the garden? Chrysostom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	96 says that it was Christ's custom, especially at the major feasts, to bring his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	97 disciples there after supper and teach them the deeper meaning of the feasts,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	98 things that others were not ready to hear.<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	99 title="">[3]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	100 And so, because this was an important feast, Judas surmised that Christ would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	101 be going there after supper. It was Christ's custom to teach his disciples
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	102 these sublime matters in the mountains or in private gardens, seeking places
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	103 free from disturbance so they would not be distracted: "I will allure her, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	104 bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her" (Hos 2:14).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	105
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	106 <p>2278 Now the Evangelist shows the procedure of the traitor.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	107 Notice, as we see from Luke (22:4), that after Judas had agreed with the chief
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	108 priests to betray Christ, he looked for an opportunity to deliver him without
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	109 disturbing the people. Consequently, he wanted to come to him privately and at
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	110 night, because during the day Christ was always busy teaching the people. Yet
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	111 even at night it was possible that he be hindered by a quickly gathering crowd,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	112 or by the darkness in which Christ could be spirited away or escape from their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	113 hands. So against the crowd, he armed himself with weapons, and against the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	114 darkness he brought lanterns and torches. And because some of the crowd might
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	115 resist, he took a band of soldiers, not from the Jews, but from the governor.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	116 In this way, no one would dare to resist because they would see the marks of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	117 legitimate authority. Further, some Jews might resist out of zeal for the law,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	118 especially because Christ was being taken by Gentiles. For this reason Judas
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	119 took some servants or <b>officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees: </b>"He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	120 has run against God with his head held high" [Job 15:26]; "Have you come out as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	121 against a robber, with swords and clubs?" (Lk 22:52)
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	122
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	123 <p>2279 Now the Evangelist shows the promptness of Christ to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	124 willingly undergo betrayal: first, by voluntarily offering himself; secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	125 by stopping one of the disciples who was resisting (v 10). In regard to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	126 first, the Evangelist does two things: first, he tells how Christ identified
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	127 himself to show his power; secondly, to show his patience (v 7). In regard to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	128 the first he does three things: first, he states the question Christ asked;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	129 secondly, he shows Christ identifying himself, <b>I am he</b>; thirdly, we see
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	130 the effect this has (v 6).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	131
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	132 <p>2280 He does three things regarding the first. First, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	133 recalls Christ's knowledge: <b>Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	134 came forward</b>;<b> </b>"Jesus knew that his hour had come" (13:1). The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	135 Evangelist mentions this for two reasons: first, so that it does not appear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	136 that the question he is asking comes from his ignorance; and secondly, so that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	137 it does not seem that he is offering himself unintentionally and without knowing
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	138 that they have come to kill him. He knew everything that would happen to him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	139
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	140 <p>Secondly, he states Christ's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	141 question, for although he knew all these things he <b>came forward and said to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	142 them, Whom do you seek? </b>But this was not because of his ignorance, as we said.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	143 Thirdly, he gives their answer, <b>Jesus of Nazareth</b>. They were seeking him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	144 not to imitate him, but to slander and kill him: "You will seek me and die in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	145 your sin" (8:21).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	146
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	147 <p>2281 Now we see Jesus identifying himself and offering
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	148 himself so that they can seize him. <b>I am he</b>, he says, that is, I am
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	149 Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are looking for. The Evangelist adds that Judas was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	150 also there because he had mentioned before that Judas had left them (13:31). It
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	151 could be expected that they might not recognize the face of Christ because of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	152 the darkness. But this darkness would not explain why they did not know Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	153 from his voice, especially those who were quite familiar with him. By saying, <b>I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	154 am he</b>, Christ shows that he was not recognized even by Judas who was with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	155 them and on close terms with Christ. This in particular shows the power of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	156 Christ's divinity. <b>Judas ... was standing with them</b>, that is, he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	157 continued in his evil to the point of identifying him with a kiss.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	158
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	159 <p>2282 Now we see the effect of his revealing himself:<b> they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	160 drew back and fell to the ground. </b>As Gregory says, sometimes we read that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	161 the saints fall to the ground: "The king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	162 did homage to Daniel" (Dan 2:46); "When I saw it, I fell upon my face" (Ez
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	163 1:28).<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4">[4]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	164 We also read that the evil fall: "Your men shall fall by the sword" (Is 3:25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	165 Yet there is a difference. It is said that the evil fall backward: "Eli fell
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	166 over backward from his seat" (1 Sam 4:18); while the saints fall on their face.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	167 The reason for this is given in Proverbs (4:18): "The path of the righteous is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	168 like the light of dawn.... The path of the wicked is like deep darkness; they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	169 do not know over what they stumble." Now those who fall backward do not see
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	170 where they fall. And so those who are evil are said to fall backward because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	171 they fall over things that are invisible. Those who fall forward see where they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	172 are falling. Thus the saints, who willingly cast themselves down with respect
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	173 to visible things, so they can be raised up to invisible things, are said to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	174 fall on their face because they humble themselves.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	175
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	176 <p>Mystically understood, we can say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	177 that by this falling backward we can understand that the Jewish people, who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	178 were a special people, because they did not listen to the voice of Christ in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	179 his preaching, fell backward, excluded from the kingdom.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	180
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	181 <p>2283 Now we see Christ questioning them a second time. First
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	182 we see his question; secondly, he identifies himself; thirdly, he offers
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	183 himself to them.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	184
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	185 <p>According to Chrysostom, there are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	186 two reasons why Christ asks them a second time whom they were seeking.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	187 href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5">[5]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	188 First, to teach the faithful that he was captured because he willed it: "He was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	189 offered because it was his own will" [Is 53:7]; he had already shown his power
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	190 because when his enemies came against him, they fell backward to the ground
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	191 before him. Secondly, he wanted, as far as he could, to give the Jews a reason
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	192 to be converted, having seen this miracle of his power: "What more was there to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	193 do for my vineyard, that I have not done it?" (Is 5:4). And when they were not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	194 converted by the revelation of his power, he voluntarily offered himself to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	195 taken by them. When <b>Again he asked them, Whom do you seek? And they said,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	196 Jesus of Nazareth, </b>he again identified himself and answered, <b>I told you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	197 that I am he</b>. It is obvious from this that they were so blind that they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	198 could not recognize him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	199
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	200 <p>He offers himself when he says, <b>if
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	201 you seek me</b>, to arrest me, then do what you want, but <b>let these men go</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	202 my disciples, for it is not yet their time to be taken from the world by suffering:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	203 "I do not pray that you should take them out of the world" (17:15). It is clear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	204 from this that Christ gave them the power to capture him, for just as he saved
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	205 his disciples by his own power, so, much more clearly, he could have saved
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	206 himself: "No one takes it [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	207 accord" (10:18).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	208
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	209 <p>2284 The Evangelist shows that the officers allowed the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	210 apostles to leave not because Christ persuaded them to do so, but because of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	211 his power, when he says, <b>This was to fulfill the word which he had spoken. </b>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	212 officers let the apostles go because they were not able to hold them, since
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	213 Christ had said that <b>of those whom you gave me I lost not one</b>.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	214
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	215 <p>2285 On the contrary. When our Lord said that none was lost,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	216 he was referring to the soul. How can the Evangelist adapt this to refer to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	217 loss of the body? We may answer, according to Chrysostom, that our Lord was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	218 speaking (17:12) of the loss of both the soul and the body.<a href="#_ftn6"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	219 name="_ftnref6">[6]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	220 And if he spoke only of the soul we could say that here the Evangelist extends
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	221 it to the loss of the body. Or, we could say, with Augustine, that we must
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	222 understand these words to refer here also to the loss of the soul.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	223 href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7">[7]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	224 The reason being that the apostles did not yet believe in the way that those
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	225 who do not perish believe. And so, if they had left the world then, some would
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	226 have perished.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	227
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	228 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	229 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 2
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	230
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	231 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	232 the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	233 Malchus. 11 Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	234 drink the cup which the Father has given me?"</BLOCKQUOTE></b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	235
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	236 <p>2286 The Evangelist has shown how ready Christ was to suffer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	237 his betrayal since he willingly offered himself. He now shows this same
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	238 readiness because Christ forbade a disciple to resist. First, he mentions the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	239 resistance of the disciple; secondly, his being restrained (v 11). In regard to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	240 the first he does two things: first, he shows the zeal of the disciple in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	241 striking the servant; secondly, we see the name of the servant.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	242
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	243 <p>2287 He says that the officers arrested Jesus, but that <b>then
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	244 Simon Peter, </b>more volatile than that the other disciples, <b>having a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	245 sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave, </b>who was among the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	246 officers, <b>and cut off his right ear</b>. This was not his intention; rather,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	247 he wanted to kill him, but the strike to the servant's head missed and struck
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	248 the ear. Peter aimed for the head so that he could more easily show that he was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	249 doing it out of zeal for his Lord: "I have been very jealous for the Lord" (1 Kgs
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	250 19:10).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	251
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	252 <p>2288 Two questions can be asked about this. Since the Lord
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	253 had commanded his disciples not to have even two tunics (Mt 10:10), why was it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	254 that Peter had a sword? I answer that Christ gave them this command when he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	255 sent them out to preach, and it was to be in effect until his passion. But when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	256 his passion drew near, Christ revoked it: "When I sent you out with no purse or
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	257 bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" (Lk 22:35). And then (in v 36): "But
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	258 now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	259 no sword sell his mantle and buy one." Because of this permission Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	260 understood that he was allowed to carry a sword.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	261
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	262 <p>How could he get a sword so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	263 quickly, since our Lord had spoken these words such a short time before? According
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	264 to Chrysostom, Peter obtained the sword earlier, when he heard that the Jews
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	265 were planning to deliver Christ over to the chief priests to be crucified.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	266 href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8">[8]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	267 Or, we could say, with the Interlinear, that "sword" is used here for a knife,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	268 which he probably had at the paschal meal, and which he took along when they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	269 left.<a href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9">[9]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	270
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	271 <p>2289 The second question is why Peter struck the servant of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	272 the high priest, since our Lord had told them not to resist evil (Mt 5:39). One
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	273 could answer that they were forbidden to resist someone in order to defend
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	274 themselves, but this did not apply to defending the Lord. Or, one could say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	275 that they had not yet been strengthened by a power coming from above: "Stay in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	276 the city, until you are clothed with power from on high" (Lk 24:49). And for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	277 this reason they were not yet so perfect that they could not resist evil
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	278 entirely.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	279
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	280 <p>2290 Now the name of the servant is given. Only John
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	281 mentions this name because, as stated below (v 15), John himself was known by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	282 the high priest, and so he also knew some of the priest's servants. Since John
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	283 was certain of this servant's name, he gives it.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	284
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	285 <p>It is Luke (22:51) who adds that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	286 our Lord healed the ear. This is appropriate for a mystery: for the servant
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	287 stands for the Jewish people, who were oppressed by the chief priests: "You eat
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	288 the fat" (Ez 34:3). Peter, the head of the apostles, takes away this servant's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	289 sense of hearing, because he heard the words of the law in a defective way, in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	290 a carnal way. But our Lord gave him back a new sense of hearing: "As soon as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	291 they heard of me they obeyed me" (Ps 18:44). With this in mind the servant is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	292 fittingly named Malchus, which means "king," because through Christ we have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	293 become kings by having a new life: "You ... have made them a kingdom and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	294 priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth" (Rev 5:10).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	295
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	296 <p>2291 Now we see the zeal of Peter being restrained. First,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	297 we see Peter's zeal; secondly, the reason it was restrained (11b).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	298
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	299 <p>2292 The Evangelist says that Peter drew his sword, and our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	300 Lord said to him, <b>Put your sword into its sheath. </b>It was like saying
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	301 that it was not defense that was needed, but patience, and that he was not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	302 allowed to use a material sword: "Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	303 quiet?" (Jer 47:6). The mystical interpretation is that this signifies that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	304 sword of God's word was to be put into its sheath, that is, into the faith of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	305 the Gentiles.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	306
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	307 <p>2293 The reason Christ restrained Peter is given when he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	308 says, <b>Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me? </b>For one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	309 should not resist what has been arranged by divine providence: "Who has
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	310 resisted him and has had peace?" [Job 9:4]. The passion is called a cup, a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	311 drinking vessel, because the charity of the one suffering gave it a certain
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	312 sweetness, but in its own nature it was bitter. It was like a healing medicine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	313 which, because it gives hope of being cured, acquires a certain sweetness,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	314 although it has a bitter taste: "I will lift up the cup of salvation and call
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	315 on the name of the Lord" (Ps 116:13).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	316
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	317 <p>The Father gave Christ this cup
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	318 because Christ willingly underwent the passion by his own will and by the will
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	319 of the Father: "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	320 from above" (19:11).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	321 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	322 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 3
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	323
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	324 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>12 So the band of soldiers and their captain and the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	325 officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him. 13 First they led him to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	326 Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	327 priest that year. 14 It was Caiaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	328 was expedient that one man should die for the people. 15 Simon Peter followed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	329 Jesus, and so did another disciple. As this disciple was known to the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	330 priest, he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus, 16 while
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	331 Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	332 high priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept the door, and brought
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	333 Peter in. 17 The maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are not you also one of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	334 this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not." 18 Now the servants and officers
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	335 had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	336 warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself. 19
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	337 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 20
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	338 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	339 synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together, I have said nothing
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	340 secretly. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	341 them; they know what I said."<a href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10">[10]</b></a></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	342
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	343 <p>2294 Now the Evangelist describes how our Lord was taken by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	344 the officers and led before the leaders. First, he is led to one of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	345 leaders, Annas; secondly, to another, Caiaphas (v 24). In regard to the first
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	346 he does two things: first, he mentions how he was presented before Annas;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	347 secondly, how he was questioned by Annas (v 19). In regard to the first he does
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	348 two things: he mentions that he is led to Annas' house; secondly, that Christ's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	349 disciples followed him (v 15). In regard to the first he does two things: he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	350 mentions what was done to Jesus; secondly, he describes the high priest before
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	351 whom Jesus was brought (v 13b).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	352
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	353 <p>2295 Three things were done to Christ. First, he was seized;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	354 for he says, <b>the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	355 Jews seized Jesus, </b>who is not apprehensible: "great in counsel,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	356 incomprehensible in thought" [Jer 32:19]. Perhaps they were thinking of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	357 Psalm (71:11): "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	358 to deliver him." Again, "The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	359 our sins," that is, on account of our sins, in order to free us: "Even the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	360 captives of the mighty shall be taken" (Is 49:25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	361
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	362 <p>Secondly, Christ was bound, <b>and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	363 bound him, </b>who came to untie their bonds and break their chains: "You have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	364 loosed my bonds" (Ps 116:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	365
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	366 <p>Thirdly, he was led away, <b>they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	367 led him to Annas, </b>so that they might destroy him who came to lead all to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	368 the way of salvation: "You have led me, because you became my hope" [Ps 61:4].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	369
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	370 <p>2296 Two reasons can be given why Jesus was first brought to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	371 Annas. This could have been done by the order of Caiaphas, the high priest that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	372 year. Caiaphas did this because he would have had more of an excuse for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	373 condemning Jesus if Annas had already condemned him. The other reason was that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	374 they were nearer to the house of Annas, which was on their way. They were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	375 fearful that if the people became aroused Jesus might be taken away from them,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	376 and so they made straight for the house of Annas.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	377
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	378 <p>2297 Here the high priest is described by his relationship
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	379 to Caiaphas, <b>he was the father‑in‑law of Caiaphas. </b>Then
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	380 Caiaphas is described as <b>high priest that year. </b>We should remember that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	381 according to the law the high priest was to hold his office for life, and when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	382 he died to be succeeded by his son. But as the envy and the ambition of the leaders
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	383 increased, not only did the son not succeed the father, but the office itself
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	384 was not held for more than a year; and even then it was bought with money, as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	385 Josephus says. And so it is not out of character that in the year of that high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	386 priesthood, so wickedly obtained, that the high priest acted so despicably.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	387
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	388 <p>2298 He is described by the advice he gave: <b>It was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	389 Caiaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	390 should die for the people </b>(in 11:50). The Evangelist recalls this to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	391 prevent the hearts of the faithful from faltering. He shows that even by the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	392 prophecy of the enemy Christ was captured<i> </i>and killed, not because he was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	393 weak and lacked power, but for the salvation of the people, that is, so the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	394 entire nation would not perish. For the testimony of one's adversary is very
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	395 effective; and truth is of such a nature that even its enemy is unable not to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	396 speak it.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	397
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	398 <p>2299 Now we see how the disciples joined Christ. First, how
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	399 Peter and another disciple followed him; secondly, we see how they entered the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	400 place where Christ was; thirdly, how one denied him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	401
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	402 <p>2300 In regard to the first he says, <b>Simon Peter followed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	403 Jesus</b>, because of his devotedness, but at a distance because of his fear, <b>and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	404 so did another disciple, </b>John, who out of humility does not mention
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	405 himself. We can understand from this that the other disciples fled and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	406 abandoned Jesus, as Matthew says (26:56).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	407
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	408 <p>2301 In the mystical interpretation, these two disciples
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	409 indicate the two ways of life in which Christ is followed: the active life,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	410 which is signified by Peter, and the contemplative life, signified by John.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	411 Those in the active life follow Christ by obedience, "My sheep hear my voice"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	412 (10:27). Those in the contemplative life follow Christ by knowledge and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	413 contemplation, "We will know and follow you" [Ps 4:3].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	414
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	415 <p>2302 These two disciples followed Christ because they loved
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	416 him more than the others did; and so they were the first to come to the tomb
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	417 (20:2). And it was these two who came because they were united to each other by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	418 a stronger bond of love; and so they are frequently mentioned together in the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	419 Gospel and in the Acts, where we read that "They sent to them Peter and John"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	420 (Acts 8:14), and again that "Peter and John were going up to the temple at the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	421 hour of prayer" (Acts 3:1).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	422
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	423 <p>2303 Now the order in which they entered is given: John
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	424 entered first and then he brought in Peter (v 16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	425
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	426 <p>2304 It was John who entered first, with Jesus, <b>as this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	427 disciple was known to the high priest ... while Peter stood outside at the door.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	428 </b>Although John had been a fisherman and had been called as a young man by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	429 Christ, he was still known by the high priest, either because John's father was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	430 a servant of the high priest, or a relative. John did not mention that the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	431 priest knew him because he was proud, but because of his humility, so that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	432 fact that he was the first to enter, with Jesus, into the court of the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	433 priest, ahead of Peter, would not be ascribed to his virtue and superiority
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	434 rather than to his acquaintance with the high priest. Thus he says, <b>as this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	435 disciple</b>, John himself, <b>was known to the high priest</b>. Consequently,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	436 he was able to enter with Jesus into the high priest's court, where Christ had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	437 been led. <b>While Peter stood outside</b>;<b> </b>this was like a foreboding
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	438 of his future denial: "Those who saw me, fled outside from me" [Ps 31:11].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	439
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	440 <p>2305 Mystically understood, John enters with Jesus because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	441 the contemplative life is one of familiarity with Jesus: "When I enter my
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	442 house, I shall find rest with her [wisdom]" (Wis 8:16). Peter stands outside
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	443 because the active life is busy with exterior things: "Mary sat at the Lord's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	444 feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	445 (Lk 10:39).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	446
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	447 <p>2306 Here we see how Peter was let in due to John's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	448 intervention, because <b>the other disciple, John who was known to the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	449 priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept the door, </b>with the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	450 intention of bringing Peter in, and then he brought Peter in. The mystical
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	451 interpretation of this is that the active life is brought to Christ by the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	452 contemplative life: for just as the lower reason is directed by the higher
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	453 reason, so the active life is directed by the contemplative life: "Oh send out
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	454 your light and your truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to your holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	455 hill and to your dwelling" (Ps 43:3).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	456
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	457 <p>2307 Now we see the denial of Peter: first, the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	458 circumstances or the incitement of his denial; secondly the denial itself (v
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	459 17b); thirdly, Peter strengthens his denial (v 18).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	460
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	461 <p>2308 The circumstances and incitement of his denial was the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	462 question of the maid who kept the door: <b>The maid who kept the door said to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	463 Peter, Are not you also one of this man's disciples?</b> She says <b>you also</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	464 because she knew that John was a disciple of Christ, but she did not mention
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	465 this to him because of their friendliness. This incident shows how weak Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	466 was at that time, for he was incited to deny Christ under feeble circumstances.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	467 How weak these circumstances were is shown, first of all, from the person who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	468 asked him: for it was not an armed soldier or an imposing high priest, but a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	469 woman, and a door keeper at that. Secondly, from the very form of the question:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	470 she did not say, "Are you a disciple of that traitor?" but rather, <b>Are not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	471 you also one of this man's disciples?</b> This seemed to indicate a certain
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	472 sympathy. We can learn from this that "By the word of the Lord the heavens were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	473 made, and all their power by the breath of his mouth" [Ps 33:6], because this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	474 same person who denied Christ at the questioning of a maid servant afterwards
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	475 professed and preached the name of Christ before the chief priests (Acts 4:8).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	476
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	477 <p>2309 Now comes Peter's denial, when he says, <b>He said, I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	478 am not</b>. We should note, according to Augustine, that Christ is denied not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	479 only by those who say that he is not the Christ, but also by those who deny
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	480 that they are Christians.<a href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11">[11]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	481 For Peter at this time did nothing other than deny that he was a Christian. Our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	482 Lord permitted Peter to deny him because he wanted the very one who was to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	483 the head of the entire Church to be all the more compassionate to the weak and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	484 sinners, having experienced in himself his own weakness in the face of sin:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	485 "For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	486 but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sinning" (Heb
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	487 4:15). This is true of Christ, and it can also be said of Peter, with his sins.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	488
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	489 <p>Some say that Peter's denial did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	490 not come from fear, but from love: for he wanted to always be with Christ and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	491 to follow him all the time. But he knew that if he admitted he was a disciple
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	492 of Christ, he would have been separated from him and expelled. But this does
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	493 not agree with our Lord's words: for Peter did not deny Christ because he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	494 feared to be separated from him, but because he was not willing to lay down his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	495 life for Christ. Before, when Peter said, "I will lay down my life for you,"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	496 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	497 you, the cock will not crow, till you have denied me three times" (13:37).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	498
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	499 <p>2310 We see Peter strengthen his denial when we read, <b>Now
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	500 the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire ... Peter also was with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	501 them, standing and warming himself, </b>so he would not seem to be one of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	502 Christ's disciples. Trying not to seem a disciple, he mixed with the servants
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	503 and officers standing by the fire because of the cold, which sometimes occurs
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	504 in March during the early spring. Peter was not attentive to the Psalm: "Be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	505 holy with the holy, persevere with those who persevere" [Ps 18:26]. Even the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	506 very time of the year corresponded to his heart, in which charity had grown
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	507 cold: "Most men's love will grow cold" (Mt 24: 12).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	508
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	509 <p>2311 <b>The high priest then questioned Jesus. </b>First we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	510 see Christ's interrogation; secondly, his reply (v 20); thirdly, he is abused
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	511 for his reply (v 22).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	512
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	513 <p>2312 Two charges were brought against Christ by the Jews: he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	514 had false and novel teachings: "What is this? A new teaching!" (Mk 1:27); and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	515 he was inciting civil discord, gathering his own followers: "He stirs up the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	516 people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place" (Lk
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	517 23:5). Consequently, he is interrogated on these two points: first, about his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	518 followers, <b>about his disciples</b>, whom were thought to be misled;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	519 secondly, about <b>his teaching</b>, regarded as false.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	520
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	521 <p>2213 Now our Lord's answer is given: first, we see his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	522 manner of teaching; secondly, he asks for the testimony of others (v 21). Two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	523 things are done about the first: we see how Christ taught his doctrine;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	524 secondly, this is further described.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	525
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	526 <p>2314 He says, <b>I have spoken openly to the world. </b>This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	527 seems to conflict with "The hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	528 in figures but tell you plainly of the Father" (16:25). So, if he had not yet
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	529 spoken openly to his disciples, how could he have spoken openly to the world? I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	530 answer that he had not yet spoken openly to his disciples in the sense that he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	531 had set forth for them his most profound thoughts. But he did speak openly to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	532 the world in the sense that he spoke to many, publicly.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	533
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	534 <p>2315 This is described more fully as he says, <b>I have always
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	535 taught in the synagogues and in the temple</b>.<b> </b>On the contrary, Matthew
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	536 (c 16) shows that Christ taught his disciples when alone with them many things
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	537 without using figures. This can be answered in three ways. First, what Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	538 said to the twelve disciples was not considered to be spoken in secret.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	539 Secondly, he did not teach these things to them with the intention that they be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	540 kept hidden. Thirdly, our Lord is speaking here of the teaching he gave to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	541 people, which was not given to them secretly but in public places: "I have told
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	542 the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation" (Ps 40:9); "I did not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	543 speak in secret, in a land of darkness" (Is 45:19).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	544
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	545 <p>2316 To support him he asks for the testimony of others,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	546 saying, <b>Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	547 </b>First, he sends them to the testimony of others; secondly, he shows whose
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	548 testimony he wants; thirdly, he gives the reason for this.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	549
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	550 <p>As to the first he says, <b>Why do
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	551 you ask me?</b> He is saying in effect: You can find this out from others. And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	552 then he adds, referring to the second point, <b>Ask those who have heard me</b>:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	553 "Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk" (Mt
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	554 22:15). Nevertheless, they could not find anything against him. Then he gives
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	555 the reason for his request saying, <b>they know what I said, </b>and they can
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	556 testify to this.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	557 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	558 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 4
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	559
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	560 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	561 struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	562 23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	563 but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" 24 Annas then sent him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	564 bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	565 himself. They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?" He denied
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	566 it and said, "I am not." 26 One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	567 of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in the garden
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	568 with him?" 27 Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.<a
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	570
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	571 <p>2317 After telling us of our Lord's answer, the Evangelist
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	572 now shows how it was rebuked: first, we see the rebuke given by an officer;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	573 secondly, our Lord's defense of his answer (v 23).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	574
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	575 <p>2318 An officer reproached our Lord's answer, first of all,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	576 by an action. He delivered a reproving blow; for the Evangelist says, <b>When
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	577 he</b>, that is, Jesus, <b>had said this, one of the officers</b>, of the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	578 priest, <b>standing by struck Jesus with his hand</b>. This did not happen by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	579 chance; it had been predicted long before and many times: "I gave my back to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	580 the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard" (Is 50:6); "Let
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	581 him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults" (Lam 3:30); "With
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	582 a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel" (Mic 5:1).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	583
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	584 <p>Secondly, the officer reproached
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	585 Christ with words, saying, <b>Is that how your answer the high priest? </b>We
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	586 can see from this that Annas was a high priest, and that Jesus had not yet been
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	587 sent to Caiaphas. This is why Luke mentions two high priests: "in the high‑priesthood
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	588 of Annas and Caiaphas" (Lk 3:2). Two high priests are mentioned because they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	589 alternated as high priests, but that year Annas [really Caiaphas] was the high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	590 priest.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	591
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	592 <p>2319 Earlier, when the testimony of those who had heard
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	593 Jesus was being sought, and the chief priests had sent their officers to arrest
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	594 him (7:32), they themselves were captivated by the words of Jesus and returned
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	595 saying, "No man ever spoke like this man" (7:46). The officer who now struck
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	596 Christ was incited to do so in order to show that he had not been one of those
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	597 in the prior group. He thought that Christ had shown a lack of respect because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	598 in saying, <b>Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me</b>, he seemed to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	599 be finding fault with the high priest for asking a thoughtless question, and it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	600 is written: "You will not speak evil of a ruler of your people" [Ex 23:28].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	601
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	602 <p>2320 Jesus justified himself, saying, <b>If I have spoken
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	603 wrongly</b>, in my answer to the high priest, <b>bear witness to the wrong. </b>That
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	604 is, if your have reason to reproach me for what I have just said, show that I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	605 have spoken badly, because "Only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	606 witnesses, shall a charge be sustained" (Deut 19:18). <b>But if I have spoken
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	607 rightly</b>, if you cannot show I have spoken badly, <b>why do you strike me?</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	608 Why flare up against me?
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	609
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	610 <p>Or, this reply of Christ could be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	611 referred to what he had said before this time: "Ask those who have heard me,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	612 what I said to them" (v 21). Then the meaning is: <b>If I have spoken badly</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	613 in the synagogue and in the temple, which I should not have done, <b>bear
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	614 witness to the wrong</b>, report what I have said to the high priest. But the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	615 officer was unable to do his. <b>But if I have spoken rightly</b>, that is,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	616 taught rightly, <b>Why do you strike me?</b> In other words: This is unjust:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	617 "Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life" (Jer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	618 18:20).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	619
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	620 <p>2321 A difficulty arises here for in Matthew our Lord
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	621 commanded his disciples, "If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	622 the other also" (Mt 5:39). And we also read about Christ that "Jesus began to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	623 do and teach" (Acts 1:1). So, Christ ought to have done himself what he had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	624 taught others to do. But he did not do this. Indeed, he did the contrary and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	625 defended himself.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	626
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	627 <p>I say to this, with Augustine, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	628 the statements and commands found in sacred scripture can be interpreted and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	629 understood from the actions of the saints, since it is the same Holy Spirit who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	630 inspired the prophets and the other sacred authors and who inspires the actions
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	631 of the saints. As we read: "Moved by the Holy Spirit holy men of God spoke" (2
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	632 Pet 1:21); and "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God" (Rom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	633 8:14). Thus, sacred scripture should be understood according to the way Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	634 and other holy persons followed it. Now, Christ did not turn his other cheek
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	635 here; and Paul did not do so either (Acts 16:22). Accordingly, we should not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	636 think that Christ has commanded us to actually turn our physical cheek to one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	637 who has struck the other. We should understand it to mean that we should be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	638 ready to do this if it turned out to be necessary to do so. That is, our
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	639 attitude should be such that we would not be inwardly stirred up against the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	640 one striking us, but be ready or disposed to endure the same or even more. This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	641 is how out Lord observed it, for he offered his body to be killed.<a
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	643 So, our Lord's defense is useful for our instruction.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	644
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	645 <p>2322 Now there is mention that he was sent from one high
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	646 priest to the other. First, it is mentioned that Jesus was sent to the other
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	647 high priest; secondly, the narration of Peter's denial is completed (v 25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	648
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	649 <p>2323 He says, <b>Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	650 high priest, </b>to whom he was originally being led. We saw before why he had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	651 been first brought to Annas. Note the wickedness of Annas: although he ought to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	652 have released Christ, since he was without fault, he yet sent him tied to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	653 Caiaphas.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	654
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	655 <p>2324 Now the second and third denials of Peter are
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	656 presented: first, the circumstances of the denials; secondly, the two denials;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	657 and thirdly, the fulfillment of Christ's prediction (v 27).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	658
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	659 <p>2325 The circumstance of Peter's second denial was his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	660 staying with the officers of the high priest who were standing near the fire.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	661 Chrysostom says that although Christ was on his way to Caiaphas, Peter still
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	662 remained with the officers [by the fire]. Peter had become so preoccupied with
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	663 his sin after his denial that he, who before was so ardent, now seemed not to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	664 care what happened to Christ: "No man repents of his wickedness, saying, 'What
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	665 have I done?'" (Jer 8:6). For Chrysostom, <b>Simon Peter was still standing and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	666 warming himself, </b>although Christ had already left, unmindful of the saying:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	667 "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked" (Ps 1:1).<a
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25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	669
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	670 <p>But this interpretation is not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	671 acceptable because it would follow that Peter's second and third denials were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	672 made in the absence of Christ. This is contrary to Luke (22:61), who says that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	673 after the third denial of Peter, our Lord turned and looked at him. For this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	674 reason Augustine explains it another way and says that the Evangelist is giving
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	675 a general view in his own way to show the connection and order of the denials.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	676 The Evangelist had said above that "the servants and officers had made a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	677 charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	678 themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself" (v 18). The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	679 Evangelist then interposes the examination of Christ by the high priest (v 19‑23),
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	680 and immediately returns to continue the series of Peter's denials, using
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	681 practically the same words as before, "Now Simon Peter was standing and warming
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	682 himself" (v 25), that is, referring to the time before Christ was sent to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	683 Caiaphas.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	684
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	685 <p>2326 Then the Evangelist mentions the next two denials of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	686 Peter (v 25). Two things are stated about each: the circumstance of the denial,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	687 that is, the question, and the denial itself. There are two questions about the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	688 literal meaning. When Matthew speaks of the second denial, he says, "And when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	689 he went out to the porch, another maid saw him, and she said to the bystanders,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	690 'This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.' And again he denied it with an oath" (Mt
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	691 26:71‑2). There seems to be two disagreements here. John says that Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	692 denied Christ by the fire (v 25), and Matthew says this happened as Peter was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	693 going out to the porch. Again, in Matthew, Peter is questioned by another maid,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	694 but John has him questioned by others, that is, a number of others, for he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	695 says, <b>They said to him, Are not you also one of his disciples? </b>(v 25).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	696 Luke also says that Christ was questioned by one person, "And after an interval
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	697 of about an hour still another insisted, saying, 'Certainly this man also was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	698 with him'" (Lk 22:59). [This is the third denial in Luke, and his second denial
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	699 is also instigated by one person, Lk 22:58].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	700
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	701 <p>We should say to these points that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	702 after Peter first denied Christ, he then got up and as he was going out to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	703 porch another maid questioned him. Or, this maid told others that Peter was one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	704 of them, as Matthew says (Mt 26:71). Thus Peter denied Christ a second time.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	705 After this Peter returned so as to avoid seeming to be a follower of Christ and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	706 sat with the others. As he was sitting there, bystanders, who had heard it from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	707 the maid, questioned him again, as Matthew says (Mt 26:73). Or, one of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	708 servants asked first, as John has here (v 26) and then other bystanders joined
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	709 in. This was Peter's third denial.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	710
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	711 <p>About this third denial, John says,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	712 <b>One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	713 had cut off</b>. This person testified to what he had seen, <b>Did I not see you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	714 in the garden with him? </b>And so after an interval of an hour Peter again
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	715 denied it, the third time.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	716
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	717 <p>It is not important if other
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	718 Evangelists say that the third question was asked by several persons, while
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	719 John has it asked by one. For it is possible that this man, being more certain,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	720 asked first, and that incited the others to ask also. Those who were standing
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	721 about said many things about this matter, and one Evangelist speaks of one of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	722 these, and another of something else. This happened because their main
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	723 intention was not to note these details, but to show the statement Peter made
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	724 and to show that what our Lord had said to Peter came true. Accordingly, all
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	725 agree on what Peter said: "What the Lord speaks, that will I speak" (Num
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	726 24:13).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	727
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	728 <p>2327 Now he mentions the sign given by Christ which Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	729 recalled. <b>And at once the cock crowed, </b>moved by God's power, so that the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	730 prediction of the physician would be fulfilled and to demonstrate the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	731 presumption of the one who was sick.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	732 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	733 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 5
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	734
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	735 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>28 Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	736 praetorium [to Caiaphas, to the praetorium]. It was early. They themselves did
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	737 not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	738 passover. 29 So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	739 against this man?" 30 They answered him, "If this man were not an evildoer, we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	740 would not have handed him over." 31 Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	741 and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	742 to put any man to death." 32 This was to fulfill the word which Jesus had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	743 spoken to show by what death he was to die.</BLOCKQUOTE></b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	744
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	745 <p>2328 Now the Evangelist tells about Christ's being handed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	746 over to the Gentiles: first, we see him delivered to the governor; secondly,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	747 Christ is examined by him (v 29); thirdly, the governor declares that Christ is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	748 innocent (v 38b). He does three things about the first: the place where Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	749 was delivered is stated; secondly, the time; thirdly, the way he was handed
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	750 over.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	751
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	752 <p>2329 The place was the praetorium, for he says, <b>They led
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	753 Jesus to Caiaphas, to the praetorium. </b>This is the place where judgment is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	754 given. In the army the commander's tent was known as the praetorium; and so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	755 this residence of the governor was also called a praetorium.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	756
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	757 <p>But how can Christ be led to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	758 Caiaphas, to the praetorium? One could say that Caiaphas had come ahead to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	759 residence of Pilate to tell him that Jesus would be handed over to him. And so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	760 Jesus was led to Caiaphas when he was in the praetorium with Pilate. Or, one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	761 could say that since Caiaphas was the high priest, he had a large dwelling, so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	762 large that the governor lived there and made it his residence. Then the meaning
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	763 is: <b>they led Jesus to Caiaphas</b>, to his residence, and so <b>to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	764 praetorium.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	765
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	766 <p>Or, one could say that the Greek
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	767 text is better, which says, <b>Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	768 praetorium. </b>This takes away the problem.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	769
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	770 <p>2330 The time is mentioned, <b>It was early</b>, for their
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	771 villainy was so great that they could hardly wait to turn him over to Pilate to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	772 be killed: "Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds!
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	773 When the morning dawns, they perform it" (Mic 2:1); "The murderer rises at the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	774 light" (Job 24:14).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	775
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	776 <p>Here we find a difficult problem.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	777 The other three Evangelists say that early in the evening Christ was struck at
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	778 the residence of Caiaphas, and questioned by him: "If you are the Christ, tell
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	779 us" (Luke 22:67), and in the morning Christ was led to Pilate. But John says
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	780 that he was led to Caiaphas. If we want to keep to the letter of the text, we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	781 could say that Caiaphas first saw Jesus when he was at the house of Annas,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	782 during the night, and at that time Christ could be examined by him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	783
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	784 <p>But there still remains the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	785 difficulty that they say that Christ was struck at the residence of Caiaphas.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	786 This is solved by the Greek text which says that "they led Jesus from Caiaphas
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	787 to the praetorium," because then during the night he was led from the residence
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	788 of Annas to the residence of Caiaphas, where he was struck and examined by him,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	789 and in the morning he was led from Caiaphas to the praetorium.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	790
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	791 <p>2331 <b>They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	792 that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. </b>Here we see,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	793 first, their useless superstition, because they would not go into the praetorium.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	794 Secondly, we see the deference Pilate paid them, since he went out to meet
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	795 them. A problem arises about the first point: that they would not enter the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	796 praetorium so as not to be defiled. The other Evangelists say that Christ was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	797 seized in the evening, on the day of the supper; and this would be the passover
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	798 meal: "I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you" (Lk 22:15). And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	799 then in the morning of the next day he was brought to the praetorium. Why then
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	800 do we read <b>so that they might eat the passover</b>,<b> </b>since it was the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	801 day after the passover? Some of the modem Greeks say that we are now on the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	802 fourteenth lunar day of the month, and that Christ was crucified on the day the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	803 Jews celebrated the passover, but that Christ anticipated the passover by one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	804 day, since he knew he would be killed on the day of the Jewish passover. Thus,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	805 he celebrated the passover on the thirteenth lunar day, in the evening. And
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	806 since the law commanded that the Jews should not have leavened bread from the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	807 fourteenth day of the first month to the twenty‑first day, they say that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	808 Christ consecrated leavened bread.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	809
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	810 <p>2332 This is not acceptable for two reasons. First, the Old
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	811 Testament has no instance where anyone was permitted to anticipate the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	812 celebration of the passover. But if one was prevented, he could postpone it to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	813 the next month: "If any man of you or of your descendants is unclean ... he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	814 shall still keep the passover to the Lord. In the second month on the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	815 fourteenth day in the evening they shall keep it "(Num 9:10). And since Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	816 never omitted any observance of the law, it is not true to say that he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	817 anticipated the passover. Secondly, Mark (14:12) states explicitly that Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	818 came on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the passover
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	819 lamb; and Matthew says that "on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	820 came to Jesus saying, 'Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	821 passover?'" (Mt 26:17). So, we should not say that Christ anticipated the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	822 passover.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	823
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	824 <p>2333 Accordingly, Chrysostom explains this another way.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	825 href="#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15">[15]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	826 He said that Christ fulfilled the law in all matters and did observe the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	827 passover on the proper day, that is, the fourteenth day, in the evening. But
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	828 the Jews were so intent on killing Christ that they did not observe it on the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	829 proper day, but on the day following, the fifteenth. Thus the sense is: <b>so
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	830 that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover </b>which they had
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	831 neglected the day before.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	832
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	833 <p>This is not acceptable either, for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	834 in Numbers (9:10) it is said that if anyone is prevented from eating the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	835 passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, he is to eat it, not on the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	836 following day, but on the fourteenth day of the second month.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	837
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	838 <p>2334 Therefore we should say with Jerome, Augustine and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	839 other Latin Fathers, that the fourteenth day is the beginning of the feast; but
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	840 the passover refers not just to that evening, but to the entire time of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	841 seven days during which they ate unleavened bread, which was to be eaten by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	842 those who were clean.<a href="#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16">[16]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	843 And because the Jews would have contracted uncleanness by entering the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	844 residence of a foreign judge, they did not enter so that <b>they might not be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	845 defiled, but might eat the passover, </b>that is, the unleavened bread.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	846
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	847 <p>See their wicked blindness, for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	848 they feared becoming defiled from a gentile man, but did not fear to shed the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	849 blood of a God and a man, "Those who laid you waste go forth from you" (Is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	850 49:17).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	851
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	852 <p>2335 Now we see the deference Pilate showed them when he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	853 says, <b>So Pilate went out to them, </b>to take Christ, whom they were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	854 offering, and said, <b>What accusation do you bring against this man? </b>In
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	855 this examination of Christ, we see first, how Christ is examined before his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	856 accusers by Pilate; secondly, how Christ is examined by Pilate in private (v
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	857 33). Concerning the first he does two things: first, we have Pilate's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	858 questioning; secondly, his generous concession to the Jews, <b>Take him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	859 yourselves</b>.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	860
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	861 <p>2336 Concerning the first, we have the examination by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	862 Pilate, and then the malicious reply of the Jews. When Pilate saw Jesus bound
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	863 and brought by so may seeking his condemnation, he said, <b>What accusation do
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	864 you bring against this man? </b>Their reply was, <b>If this man were not an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	865 evildoer, we would not have handed him over. </b>They are saying here: We have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	866 already examined and condemned him, and are now handing him over to you to be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	867 punished. They were regarding their own judgment as sufficient for Pilate. Yet
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	868 they were not speaking truly when they said he was an evildoer, for "He went
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	869 about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil" (Acts 10:38).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	870 They were acting like the Psalm says, "They requite me evil for good" (Ps
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	871 35:12).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	872
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	873 <p>2337 Luke is different, for he says that the Jews accused
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	874 Christ of many crimes: "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	875 from Galilee even to this place" (Lk 23:5). I reply that, as Augustine says,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	876 the Jews said many things to Pilate at that time, and it could be that they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	877 first said what John reports, and then said what Luke tells us.<a href="#_ftn17"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	878 name="_ftnref17">[17]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	879
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	880 <p>2338 The Evangelist now mentions Pilate's generous
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	881 concession (v 31): first, we see this concession; secondly, the Jews refuse it;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	882 and thirdly, we see the reason for their refusal (v 32).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	883
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	884 <p>2339 Pilate said, <b>Take him yourselves, </b>intending to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	885 do them a favor. Festus did the same to Paul: "But Festus, wishing to do the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	886 Jews a favor, said to Paul, 'Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem, and there be
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	887 tried on these charges before me?'" (Acts 25:9). Or, this could be said as a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	888 taunting remark: for they had already examined and condemned Christ, and Pilate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	889 wanted those who had condemned Christ as an evildoer to pass the sentence,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	890 because "It was not the custom of the Romans to give up any one before the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	891 accused met the accusers face to face, and had opportunity to make his defense
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	892 concerning the charge laid against him" (Acts 25:16). So the meaning is then:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	893 You want my judgment, but <b>Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law</b>,<b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	894 </b>for I will never be that kind of a judge.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	895
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	896 <p>2340 The refusal of the Jews is mentioned when he says, <b>The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	897 Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. </b>This
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	898 seems not to agree with Exodus [22:18]: "You will not permit a sorcerer to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	899 live." And they regarded Jesus as a sorcerer.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	900
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	901 <p>According to Augustine the meaning
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	902 is, <b>It is not lawful for us to put any man to death </b>on a feast day, but
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	903 it is lawful on other days.<a href="#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18">[18]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	904 Or, according to Chrysostom, the Jews had lost much of their power: for they
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	905 could not pass judgment on a crime against the state.<a href="#_ftn19"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	906 name="_ftnref19">[19]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	907 But here they intended to condemn Christ especially for matters against the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	908 state: "Everyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar" (19:12).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	909 This is why they said, <b>It is not lawful for us to put any man to death</b>,<b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	910 </b>for crimes against the state, although we can do this for some sins against
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	911 the law, for this kind of judgment was reserved to them. Or, it could be said
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	912 that some things are not lawful either because they are prohibited by divine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	913 law ‑ and they were not prohibited from doing this by divine law ‑
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	914 or because they are forbidden by human law ‑ and in this way it was not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	915 lawful for them to put anyone to death, for such power was now in the hands of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	916 the governor.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	917
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	918 <p>2341 There is another question: How then could they have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	919 stoned Stephen (Acts 7:58)? Chrysostom answers this by saying that the Romans
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	920 allowed the Jews to make use of their own laws, and because the punishment of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	921 stoning was part of their law, the Romans allowed them to do this.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	922 href="#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20">[20]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	923 But in the law death on the cross was abhorred: "A hanged [on a tree] man is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	924 accursed by God" (Deut 21:23). And so they did not use this kind of death. The
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	925 Jews, in their malice, were not satisfied just to stone Christ, they wanted to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	926 condemn him to the most disgraceful of deaths, as we see from Wisdom (2:20).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	927 Thus they now say, <b>It is not lawful for us to put any man to death, </b>meaning
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	928 the death on the cross. Or, one could say that Stephen was stoned during a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	929 change of governors, when many laws were violated.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	930
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	931 <p>2342 The Evangelist gives the reason the Jews refused when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	932 he says, <b>This was to fulfill the word which Jesus had spoken to show by what
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	933 death he was to die. </b>The words <b>this was to fulfill </b>do not indicate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	934 the intention the Jews had, but the arrangement of God's providence. For Jesus
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	935 had said (Mt 20:19) that it was by the Gentiles that he would be crucified and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	936 killed, but that he would be handed over to them by the Jews. So, in order that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	937 this be accomplished, the Jews were unwilling to judge and kill him themselves.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	938
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	939 <BR><BR><BR>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	940 <p align=center><b>LECTURE 6
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	941
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	942 <BLOCKQUOTE><p>33 Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	943 and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" 34 Jesus answered, "Do you say
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	944 this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" 35 Pilate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	945 answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	946 over to me; what have you done?" 36 Jesus answered, "My kingship [kingdom] is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	947 not of this world; if my kingship [kingdom] were of this world, my [ministers]
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	948 servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	949 kingship [kingdom] is not from the world." 37 Pilate said to him, "So you are a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	950 king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	951 this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	952 of the truth hears my voice." 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" After he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	953 had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, "I find no crime
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	954 in him. 39 But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	955 Passover; will you have me release for you the King of the Jews?" 40 They cried
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	956 out again, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	957 href="#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21">[21]</b></a></BLOCKQUOTE>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	958
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	959 <p>2343 Above, the Evangelist told how Pilate examined Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	960 before those who accused him; here he describes how Pilate questioned him in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	961 private. First, the Evangelist gives Pilate's question; then, the answer of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	962 Jesus (v 34). In regard to the first he does two things: first, we have
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	963 Pilate's question; secondly, we see Christ asking the reason for the question, <b>Do
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	964 you say this of your own accord?</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	965
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	966 <p>2344 In regard to the first, note that Pilate, as a just
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	967 judge, and as one proceeding cautiously, did not immediately agree with the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	968 accusation of the high priest, "You shall not follow a multitude to do evil;
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	969 nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	970 pervert justice" (Ex 23:2). Rather, <b>Pilate entered the praetorium again and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	971 called Jesus </b>aside, because he had serious doubts about him. So he called
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	972 Christ over to examine the case more closely and to allow Christ to answer in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	973 more peace and away from the shouts of the Jews: "I searched out the cause of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	974 him whom I did not know" (Job 29:16).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	975
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	976 <p>2345 Then Pilate said to him, <b>Are you the King of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	977 Jews?</b> This shows, as Luke says (Lk 23:2), that the Jews were accusing
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	978 Christ of this crime, although John says only that "If this man were not an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	979 evildoer, we would not have handed him over" (18:30), and may other crimes were
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	980 laid on him. But the charge about his being a king touched the heart of Pilate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	981 most, and that is why he questioned him only about this: "For out of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	982 abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Mt 12:34).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	983
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	984 <p>2346 Then (v 34), Jesus is seen questioning his examiner:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	985 first, we have Christ's question; then Pilate's answer, <b>Am I a Jew?</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	986
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	987 <p>2347 The Evangelist says, <b>Jesus answered</b>, asking a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	988 question in return, <b>Do you say this of your own accord or did others say it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	989 to you about me?</b> There are two reasons why someone asks a question.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	990 Sometimes it is to find out something that the questioner does not know; as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	991 when a student questions his teacher. Sometimes one asks a question about
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	992 things he already knows in order to learn what answer will be given; as when a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	993 teacher questions his student. Now our Lord knew both what he asked about, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	994 what answer would be given, and thus he was not asking out of ignorance, "All
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	995 are open and laid bear to the eyes of him with whom we have to do" (Heb 4:13).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	996 Rather, he asked so that we might know what the Jews and Gentiles thought, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	997 at the same time be taught about that kingdom.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	998
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	999 <p>2348 <b>Pilate answered, Am I a Jew?</b> Why did he answer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1000 this way? Because our Lord had asked him whether he said this on his own.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1001 Pilate showed by this that it was not his concern to inquire if Christ was the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1002 King of the Jews; it was rather the affair of the Jews, whose King he said he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1003 was. By giving this answer Pilate showed that it was others who had told him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1004 that Christ was the King of the Jews. Accordingly he says, <b>Your own nation
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1005 and the chief priests have handed you over to me</b>, by bringing this charge
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1006 against you. He says, <b>your own nation</b>, because, considering his human
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1007 nature, Christ was born a Jew: "For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1008 side. 'Denounce him! Let us denounce him!' say all my familiar friends" (Jer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1009 20:10); "A man's enemies are the men of his own house" (Mic 7:6). And we read <b>chief
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1010 priests</b>, because the greater their power the greater their crime: "And in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1011 this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1012 (Ezra 9:2); "I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1013 way of the Lord, the law of their God. But they all alike had broken the yoke,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1014 they had burst the bonds" (Jer 5:5). If they have handed you over to me, <b>What
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1015 have you done?</b> It's unbelievable that they would have handed you over to me
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1016 except for some serious matter.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1017
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1018 <p>2349 Now Christ's answer is given: and first, the mistaken
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1019 impression about his kingdom is corrected; secondly, the truth is established
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1020 (37b). As to the first he does two things: the mistaken impression is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1021 corrected; and a sign is given as proof, <b>if my kingdom were of this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1022 world....</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1023
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1024 <p>2350 The false idea of Christ's kingdom is rejected by his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1025 saying, <b>My kingdom is not of this world. </b>The Manicheans misunderstood
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1026 this, and said that there were two gods and two kingdoms; there was a good god,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1027 who had his kingdom in a region of light, and an evil god, who had his kingdom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1028 in a region of darkness, and this darkness was this world, because all material
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1029 things, they said, were darkness. The meaning would then be, <b>My kingdom is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1030 not of this world, </b>that is, God, the Father, who is good, and I, do not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1031 have our kingdom in this region of darkness.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1032
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1033 <p>But this is contrary to, "God is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1034 the king of all the earth" (Ps 47:7); and again, "Whatever the Lord pleases he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1035 does, in heaven and on earth" (Ps 134:6). Thus we should say that Christ said
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1036 this for the sake of Pilate, who believed that Christ was claiming an earthly
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1037 kingdom in which he would reign in the physical way that those of earth do, and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1038 so should be punished by death for trying to reign unlawfully.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1039
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1040 <p>2351 Sometimes the word <b>kingdom </b>means the people who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1041 reign, and sometimes the authority to reign. Taking the word in its first
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1042 sense, Augustine says, <b>My kingdom, </b>that is, my faithful ‑ you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1043 "have made them a kingdom ... to our Lord" (Rev 5:10) ‑ <b>is not of this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1044 world.<a href="#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22"><b>[22]</b></a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1045 </b>He does not say they are not "in the world" (17:11), but that they are <b>not
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1046 of this world, </b>because of what they love and imitate, since they have been
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1047 wrested from it by grace. For this is how God has delivered us from the power
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1048 of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of his love.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1049
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1050 <p>Chrysostom explains this sentence
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1051 by taking <b>kingdom</b> in the second sense, and says, <b>My kingdom</b>, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1052 is, the power and authority which makes me a king, <b>is not of this world</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1053 that is, does not have its origin in earthly causes and human choice, but from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1054 another source, from the Father: "His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1055 which shall not pass away" (Dan 7:14).<a href="#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1056 title="">[23]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1057
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1058 <p>2352 Here he shows by clear signs that his kingdom is not of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1059 this world: first, a sign is given; secondly, the conclusion is drawn (v 36).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1060
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1061 <p>2353 In regard to the first, note that one who has an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1062 earthly kingdom, whether by right or by force, needs associates and ministers
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1063 to keep him in power: the reason being that he is powerful through his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1064 ministers, not all by himself: "There was a long war between the house of Saul
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1065 and the house of David; and David grew stronger and stronger, while the house
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1066 of Saul became weaker and weaker" (2 Sam 3:1). But the heavenly king, because
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1067 he is powerful by himself, gives power to his servants; and consequently he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1068 does not need ministers for his kingdom. And thus Christ says that his kingdom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1069 is not of this world, because <b>if my kingdom were of this world, my ministers
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1070 would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews. </b>When Peter
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1071 started to fight for Christ (18:10), he forgot that he was not of this world.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1072 Still, our Lord did have some ministers, the angels, who could have rescued him
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1073 from the hands of the Jews, but he chose not to be rescued: "Do you think that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1074 I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1075 legions of angels?" (Mt 26:53).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1076
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1077 <p>2354 <b>But my kingdom is not from the world</b>, that is,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1078 because Christ does not need such ministers, he concludes that his <b>kingdom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1079 is not from the world, </b>that is, does not have its source from this world.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1080 And yet it is here, because it is everywhere: "She [Wisdom] reaches mightily from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1081 one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well" (Wis 8:1);
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1082 "Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1083 earth your possession" (Ps 2:8); "And to him was given dominion and glory and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1084 kingdom, that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him" (Dan 7:14).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1085
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1086 <p>2355 Now our Lord reveals the truth about his kingdom:
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1087 first, we see the circumstances for this; secondly, the revelation itself; and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1088 thirdly, the effect this revelation had, <b>What is truth?</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1089
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1090 <p>2356 In respect to the first, note that Pilate understood
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1091 our Lord's statements to mean that he did have a physical kingdom, but far
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1092 away: "The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God ...
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1093 and he is not able to understand them" (1 Cor 2:14). Accordingly he was in a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1094 hurry to know the truth, and so said, <b>So you are a king?</b>, you also?
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1095
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1096 <p>2357 When he answers, <b>You say that I am a king</b>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1097 Christ first says that he is a king; secondly, he shows the nature of his
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1098 kingdom (v 37); thirdly, he mentions those over whom he reigns, <b>Every one
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1099 who is of the truth</b>.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1100
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1101 <p>2358 With regard to the first, note that our Lord's answer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1102 about his kingship was so worded that he neither seemed to be clearly asserting
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1103 that he was a king ‑ since he was not a king in the sense in which Pilate
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1104 understood it ‑ nor denying it ‑ since spiritually he was the King
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1105 of Kings.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1106
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1107 <p>He says, <b>You say that I am a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1108 king</b>, in the physical sense in which I am not a king; but in another way I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1109 am a king, "Behold a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1110 justice" (Is 32:1).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1111
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1112 <p>2359 He shows the character and nature of his kingdom when
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1113 he says, <b>For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1114 bear witness to the truth. </b>This is explained in two ways.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1115
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1116 <p>In one way by Augustine, so that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1117 the kingdom of Christ is his faithful, as was said above. Thus, Christ reigns
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1118 over his faithful; and he came into the world to gather his faithful to himself
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1119 and establish a kingdom: "A nobleman went into a far country to receive a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1120 kingdom" [Lk 19:12]. The meaning then is this: <b>For this I was born</b>, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1121 is, for this purpose I was born in the flesh. He explains this saying, <b>and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1122 for this I have come into the world, </b>by physical birth ‑ for this is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1123 the way he came into the world, "God sent his Son into the world" [Gal 4:4] ‑
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1124 <b>to bear witness to the truth, </b>that is, to myself, who am the truth,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1125 "Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true" (8:14). And to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1126 extent that I manifest myself, the Truth, to that extent I establish my
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1127 kingdom. For this cannot be done without manifesting the truth, which can only
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1128 be done fittingly by me, who am the light: "The only Son, who is in the bosom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1129 of the Father, he has made him known" (1:18); "It was declared at first by the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1130 Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, while God also bore
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1131 witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by the gifts of the Holy
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1132 Spirit" (Heb 2:3).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1133
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1134 <p>2360 Chrysostom explains it differently, this way.<a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1135 href="#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24">[24]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1136 You ask if I am a king, and I say that I am: but I am a king by divine power,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1137 because <b>for this I was born</b>, that is, born from the Father, by an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1138 eternal birth; just as I am God from God, so I am king from king: "I was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1139 appointed king" [Ps 2:6], and then follows, "Today I have begotten you" [v 7].
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1140 Then when he adds <b>and for this I have come into the world, </b>it is not to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1141 explain the previous words, but to refer to his birth in time. It is like
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1142 saying: Although I am an eternal king, yet I have come into the world for this,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1143 <b>to bear witness to the truth, </b>that is, to myself, that I am a king from
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1144 God the Father.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1145
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1146 <p>2361 Now he shows over whom he reigns. Before (10:11), he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1147 said that he was a shepherd and those under him were sheep; that is the same as
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1148 what he is saying here, that he is a king and his subjects are the kingdom.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1149 This is so because a king is to his subjects as a shepherd to his sheep; and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1150 just as a shepherd feeds his sheep ‑ "Should not shepherds feed the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1151 sheep?" (Ez 34:2) ‑ so a king supports his subjects. He said in
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1152 particular, "My sheep hear my voice" (10:27); accordingly, he also says here, <b>every
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1153 one who is of the truth hears my voice, </b>not just outwardly, but with an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1154 interior belief and love, and carrying this out in action: "Every one who has
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1155 heard and learned from the Father comes to me" (6:45). But why does a person
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1156 hear my voice? Because such a one is <b>of the truth, </b>which is God.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1157
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1158 <p>2362 But since all of us are from God, all are of the truth
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1159 and hear his voice. We can answer this by saying that all are from God by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1160 creation, and this is one way we are of God. But besides this, some are said to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1161 be of God because they love and imitate him. We read before, "You are not of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1162 God" (8:47), that is, considering your affections, but you are of God by
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1163 creation. <b>Every one hears my voice</b>, with belief and love, <b>who is of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1164 the truth, </b>that is, who has accepted the duty of loving the truth.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1165
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1166 <p>2363 He does not say, "Every one who hears my voice is of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1167 the truth," because it would follow that we are of the truth because we
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1168 believed. But actually, we believe because we are of the truth, that is,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1169 because we have received the gift of God which enables us to believe and love
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1170 the truth: "By grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1171 own doing, it is the gift of God" (Eph 2:8); "For it has been granted to you
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1172 that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1173 for his sake" (Phil 1:29).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1174
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1175 <p>2364 Now the Evangelist tells us the effect of Christ's
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1176 answer. We can see from this that Pilate abandoned his idea that Christ had an
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1177 earthly kingdom, and now thought of Christ as a king in the sense of one who
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1178 teaches the truth. He desired to learn this truth and to become a member of
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1179 this kingdom and so he said, <b>What is truth? </b>He was not asking for a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1180 definition of truth, but wanted to know that truth by whose power he could
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1181 become a member of this kingdom. This indicates that truth was not known by the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1182 world and had vanished from almost everyone, as long as they remained
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1183 unbelievers: "Truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1184 enter" (Is 59:14); "Truth has decayed in the children of men" [Ps 12:1]. But
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1185 Pilate did not wait for Christ's answer.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1186
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1187 <p>2365 Apropos of this question, note that we find two kinds
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1188 of truth in the gospel. One is uncreated and making: this is Christ: "I am the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1189 way, and the truth, and the life" (14:6); the other truth is made, "Grace and
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1190 truth came [were made] through Jesus Christ" (1:17).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1191
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1192 <p>By its nature truth implies a
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1193 conformity between a reality and the intellect. The intellect is related in two
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1194 ways to reality. An intellect can be related to things as a measure of these
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1195 things; that would be the intellect which is the cause of these things. Another
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1196 intellect is measured by things, this would be an intellect whose knowledge is
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1197 caused by these things. Now truth is not in the divine intellect because the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1198 intellect is conformed to things, but because things are conformed to the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1199 divine intellect. While truth is in our intellect because it understands
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1200 things, conforms to them, as they are. And so uncreated truth and the divine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1201 intellect is a truth which is not measured or made, but a truth which measures
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1202 and makes two kinds of truth: one is in the things themselves, insofar as it
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1203 makes them so they are in conformity with what they are in the divine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1204 intellect; and it makes the other truth in our souls, and this is a measured
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1205 truth, not a measuring truth. Therefore, the uncreated truth of the divine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1206 intellect is appropriated, especially referred, to the Son, who is the very
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1207 concept of the divine intellect and the Word of God. For truth is a consequence
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1208 of the intellect's concept.<a href="#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25">[25]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1209
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1210 <p>2366 Now, (v 38) we see Pilate's finding in regard to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1211 Christ: first, Pilate states his innocence; secondly, we see his intention to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1212 show mercy (v 39).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1213
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1214 <p>2367 Concerning the first, note that Pilate, as Augustine
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1215 says, was eager to free Christ.<a href="#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26">[26]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1216 When he had asked Christ, <b>What is truth? </b>he suddenly realized how he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1217 could free Christ by means of a custom which allowed him to release a prisoner
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1218 at the time of the passover. And so, not waiting for an answer to his question,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1219 he decided to make use of this custom to do this. This is why the Evangelist
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1220 says about Pilate, <b>After he had said this.</b>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1221
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1222 <p>Pilate heard the cries of the Jews,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1223 and thinking that he could calm them and then listen to Christ's answer to this
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1224 difficult question under more tranquil conditions, <b>went out to the Jews
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1225 again, </b>and declared Christ's innocence, <b>I find no crime in him</b>, that
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1226 is, nothing deserving death: "He committed no sin" (1 Pet 2:22). But even if he
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1227 did commit a crime, I, who have authority in these matters, and especially the
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1228 authority to judge of matters against the state, I wish to free and release
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1229 him.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1230
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1231 <p>2368 Accordingly he says, <b>But you have a custom that I
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1232 should release one man for you at the Passover. </b>First, he offers to release
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1233 Christ; secondly, the Evangelist gives the reply of the Jews.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1234
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1235 <p>2369 This practice was started by Pilate or some other Roman
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1236 governor as a favor to the people. Wishing to free Christ using this custom
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1237 Pilate said, <b>Will you have me release for you the King of the Jews? </b>He
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1238 did not call him this as if this were a crime, but to heighten their malice. It
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1239 was like saying: Even if he is the king of the Jews, which is not your role to
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1240 judge, but mine, still, if you want me to, I will release him for you.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1241
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1242 <p>2370 The Jews <b>cried out again, Not this man, but
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1243 Barabbas! </b>Then to indicate the malice of the Jews, the Evangelist mentions
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1244 the crime committed by the one they wanted released, saying, <b>Now Barabbas
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1245 was a robber</b>:<b> </b>"Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves"
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1246 (Is 1:23). This fulfills the words of Jeremiah (12:8): "My heritage has become
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1247 to me like a lion in the forest." "But you denied the Holy and Righteous One
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1248 and asked for a murderer to be granted to you" (Acts 3:14).
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1249
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1250 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1251
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1252 <div><br clear=all>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1253
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1254 <hr align=left size=1 width="33%">
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1255
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1256 <div id=ftn1>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1257
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1258 <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1259 St. Thomas refers to Jn 18:6 in the <i>Summa
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1260 Theologiae:</i> III, q. 44, a. 3, ad 1.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1261
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1262 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1263
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1264 <div id=ftn2>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1265
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1266 <p><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2">[2]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1267 in Io</i>., 112, ch., 1, col 1930; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1268 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:1-2.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1269
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1270 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1271
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1272 <div id=ftn3>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1273
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1274 <p><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3">[3]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 82, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1275 1; PG 59, col. 447; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:1-2.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1276
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1277 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1278
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1279 <div id=ftn4>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1280
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1281 <p><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4">[4]</a> <i>Commentarium in Esaiam</i><i>, 9</i>; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:3-9.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1282
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1283 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1284
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1285 <div id=ftn5>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1286
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1287 <p><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5">[5]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch. 1; PG 59, col. 448; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1288 18:3-9.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1289
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1290 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1291
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1292 <div id=ftn6>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1293
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1294 <p><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6">[6]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1295 1; PG 59, col. 448; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:3-9.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1296
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1297 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1298
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1299 <div id=ftn7>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1300
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1301 <p><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7">[7]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1302 in Io</i>., 112, ch. 4, col 1931; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1303 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:3-9.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1304
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1305 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1306
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1307 <div id=ftn8>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1308
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1309 <p><a href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8">[8]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch. 2; PG 59, col. 449; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:10-11.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1310
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1311 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1312
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1313 <div id=ftn9>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1314
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1315 <p><a href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9">[9]</a> Interlinear (Theophyl); cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:10-11.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1316
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1317 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1318
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1319 <div id=ftn10>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1320
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1321 <p><a href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10">[10]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1322 St. Thomas refers to Jn 18:20 in the <i>Summa
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1323 Theologiae:</i> III, q. 42, a. 3, s. c.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1324
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1325 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1326
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1327 <div id=ftn11>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1328
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1329 <p><a href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11">[11]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1330 <i>Tract. in Io</i>.,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1331 113, ch. 2, col. 1933; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1332 </i>18:-17.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1333
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1334 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1335
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1336 <div id=ftn12>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1337
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1338 <p><a href="#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12">[12]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1339 St. Thomas refers to Jn 18:23 in the <i>Summa
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1340 Theologiae</i>: II-II, q. 72, a. 3.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1341
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1342 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1343
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1344 <div id=ftn13>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1345
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1346 <p><a href="#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13">[13]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1347 in Io</i>., 113, ch. 4, col. 1934-5; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1348 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:22-24.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1349
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1350 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1351
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1352 <div id=ftn14>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1353
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1354 <p><a href="#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14">[14]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch. 3; PG 59, col. 451; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:25-27.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1355
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1356 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1357
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1358 <div id=ftn15>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1359
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1360 <p><a href="#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15">[15]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1361 Chrysostom-(This is NOT what Chrysostom says in In Ioannem hom, 83.3.452)
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1362 Chrysostom says that the whole feast was called the Passover and that Christ
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1363 died on the high day of the Feast, on which day the Passover was
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1364 customarily/formerly celebrated.) This should probably be looked at by a better
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1365 Latinist.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1366
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1367 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1368
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1369 <div id=ftn16>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1370
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1371 <p><a href="#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16">[16]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1372 Augustine, <i>Tract. in Io</i>., 114, ch. 1, col. 1936; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:28-32.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1373
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1374 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1375
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1376 <div id=ftn17>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1377
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1378 <p><a href="#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17">[17]</a> <i>De consensus evangelistarum</i>, 3, ch. 8; PL 34; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:28-32.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1379
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1380 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1381
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1382 <div id=ftn18>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1383
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1384 <p><a href="#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18">[18]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1385 in Io</i>., 114, ch. 4, col. 1937; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1386 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:28-32.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1387
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1388 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1389
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1390 <div id=ftn19>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1391
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1392 <p><a href="#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19">[19]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1393 4; PG 59, col. 452; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:28-32.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1394
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1395 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1396
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1397 <div id=ftn20>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1398
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1399 <p><a href="#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20">[20]</a> Ibid.; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:28-32.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1400
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1401 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1402
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1403 <div id=ftn21>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1404
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1405 <p><a href="#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21">[21]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1406 St. Thomas refers to Jn 18:35 in the <i>Summa
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1407 Theologiae</i>: III, q. 47, a. 3, obj. 3; q. 47, a. 6, ad 2; Jn 18:37: <i>ST </i>III,
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1408 q. 3, a. 8, obj. 1; q. 12, a. 3; q. 35, a. 7, obj. 3; q. 40, a. 1.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1409
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1410 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1411
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1412 <div id=ftn22>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1413
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1414 <p><a href="#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22">[22]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1415 in Io</i>., 115, ch. 1, col. 1938-9; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1416 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:33-38.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1417
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1418 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1419
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1420 <div id=ftn23>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1421
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1422 <p><a href="#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23">[23]</a> <i>In Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch. 4; PG 59, col. 453; cf. <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:33-38.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1423
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1424 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1425
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1426 <div id=ftn24>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1427
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1428 <p><a href="#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24">[24]</a> <i>In
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1429 Ioannem hom</i>., 83, ch. 4; PG 59, col. 453; cf.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1430 <i>Catena Aurea</i>, 18:33-38.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1431
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1432 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1433
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1434 <div id=ftn25>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1435
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1436 <p><a href="#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25">[25]</a>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1437 Summa-truth.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1438
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1439 </div>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1440
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1441 <div id=ftn26>
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1442
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1443 <p><a href="#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26">[26]</a> <i>Tract.
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1444 in Io</i>., 115, ch. 5, col. 1941; cf. <i>Catena
25a799388159 originals from http://www.josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/SSJohn.htm ht parents: diff changeset	1445 Aurea</i>,<i> </i>18:38-40.
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