im:
12:38. That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? And to whom hath the arm
of the Lord been revealed?
12:39. Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again:
They could not believe... Because they would not, saith St. Augustine,
Tract. 33, in Joan. See the annotation, St. Mark 4. 12.
12:40. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be
converted: and I should heal them.
12:41. These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
12:42. However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because
of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast
out of the synagogue.
12:43. For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
12:44. But Jesus cried and said: He that believeth in me doth not
believe in me, but in him that sent me.
12:45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.
12:46. I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me
may not remain in darkness.
12:47. And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge
him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that
judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
the last day.
12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he
gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.
12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things
therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.
John Chapter 13
Christ washes his disciples' feet. The treason of Judas. The new
commandment of love.
13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour
was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having
loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Before the festival day of the pasch... This was the fourth and last
pasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common
computation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year
of the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour
suffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different
opinions on this subject are of no consequence.
13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now
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