The Gospel of St. John

It may be well to state briefly the object and plan of the present work. Some years ago their Lordships the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland decided to lengthen considerably t...

Among Jewish customs he refers to the manner of purification before meals (John ii. 6), and to their avoidance of intercourse with Samaritans (iv. 9), and hints at the objection...

providing for the Mother of God (John xix. 27). Nor did he fail to return love for love. When the Apostles fled in terror from Gethsemane (Mark xiv. 50), Peter and John followed...

After the descent of the Holy Ghost, St. John, with St. Peter, took a leading part in establishing the Church. He and Peter were the first to suffer imprisonment for preaching t...

1‐18. *The prologue*(*16*)* declares the Word’s eternity, distinct personality, and essential unity with God; His relations with creation generally, and with man in particular;...

from faith alone. See Decrees of the Council of Trent, Sess. vi. Chap. vi. and viii. The meaning of the two verses, according to this view, is, that as many as received Christ b...

find Him using it very frequently (though not exclusively; see, _e.g._, Matt. ix. 6; xxiii. 30; Acts vii. 56) in connection with His privations, sufferings, and death (Matt. vii...

1. Et die tertia nuptiae 1. And the third day there was factae sunt in Cana Galilaeae, a marriage in Cana of Galilee: et erat mater Iesu ibi. and the mother of Jesus was there....

1. This chapter is closely connected with the end of the preceding. Among the many who believed (ii. 23) was *a man of the Pharisees* (see i. 24). The sect, name, and dignity of...

1. Ut ergo cognovit Iesus quia 1. When Jesus therefore audierunt pharisaei quod Iesus understood that the Pharisees plures discipulos facit, et had heard that Jesus maketh bapti...

the _time_ of His coming, she must have learned by rumour that the Jews were _at this time_ expecting the Messias; her words, “He will tell _us_ all things,” showed that she hop...

1. The interval to be admitted between the events now about to be narrated and the preceding, depends upon the answer to be given to the question: what festival is here referred...

16‐21. *On the night of that same day, as the disciples are crossing to the western side of the lake, a storm rises, and He comes to them, walking upon the waters.*

44‐49. *Though some were anxious to arrest Him, no one durst, not even the officers who had been sent for that purpose; consequent indignation of the Priests and Pharisees.*

This is the second of the three passages in our Gospel, whose authenticity has been seriously questioned. See Introd. VI. We shall sum up the evidence by which the critical ques...

15‐23. *Interview between the man and the Pharisees. They refuse to believe that he had been blind, and summon his parents in order to ascertain the truth. The parents declare t...

22‐30. *On another occasion the Pharisees ask Him to tell them plainly if He is the Christ; to whom He replies that He is, and the Son of God, one in nature with His Father.*

54‐56. *Jesus retired from the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, and the chief priests and Pharisees gave orders, that anyone knowing where He was, should inform upon Him, in order th...

1. Iesus ergo ante sex dies 1. Jesus therefore six days paschae venit Bethaniam, ubi before the pasch came to Lazarus fuerat mortuus, quem Bethania, where Lazarus had suscitavit...

of the judgment of condemnation. *The prince of this world* is plainly the devil. See also 2 Cor. iv. 4; Eph. ii. 2, vi. 12. In the Talmud the same title is given to the prince...

1‐20. *On the night before (according to the Jewish method of reckoning their days, on the first night of) the great festal week of the Pasch, Jesus celebrates the Paschal Suppe...

1. *Let not your heart be troubled.* Continuing the discourse after the Last Supper, begun in xiii. 31, Jesus begins to console the Apostles. He saw that they were sore at heart...

12‐17. *He inculcates mutual love, proposing as a model His own love for the Apostles—a love which made him ready to lay down His life for them (13), and which was spontaneous (...

told them of His speedy departure from them (xiii. 33), pointed out to them His consubstantiality with the Father (xiv. 7‐11), and instructed them that the Holy Ghost was to com...

other parts of Scripture, as from John xvi. 13, 14. The Greek rendered *you shall give testimony*, is ambiguous, and may be either an imperative or an indicative. However, as Ch...

5‐7. *He again consoles them, and tries to reconcile them to His departure, by telling them that it is necessary, in order that the Holy Ghost may come to them.*

Last Supper was spoken in the crowded streets of Jerusalem; and if the words of SS. Matthew or Mark obliged us to hold that the prediction, recorded by those Evangelists was spo...

1. Haec locutus est Iesus: et 1. These things Jesus spoke, sublevatis oculis in coelum, and lifting up his eyes to dixit: Pater venit hora, heaven, he said: Father, the clarific...

1‐7. *Jesus retires to the Garden of Gethsemani, where, having been betrayed by Judas, He freely delivers Himself up, after He had first shown His almighty power, by casting His...

1. After he had released Barabbas, Pilate now thought of another but a cruel means of saving the life of Jesus. He had Him scourged, hoping thus to satisfy the fury of His enemi...

30, 31. *Incompleteness of this narrative regarding the miracles which Christ wrought to prove his resurrection, and statement of the object which St. John had in view in record...

Cleophas, set out from Bethany, where we suppose her to have spent the preceding day and night in the house of her brother Lazarus. To this same departure from Bethany and to th...

1‐14. *Appearance of Jesus to the disciples at the Sea of Galilee; the miraculous draught of fish, after which St. John first recognises Jesus, and St. Peter leaps from the boat...

that point. In addition to this, those who deny the authenticity, contend that the style of this chapter is so different from that of the rest of the Gospel as to compel the bel...