John Chrysostom

After this, He solves also the difficulty why He willed it then. For, "this was done," He saith, "that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." See how even up to the last hour, and in the very act of being betrayed, He did all things for their amendment, healing, prophesying, threatening. …

Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 84 ↗

Jerome

But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples, leaving him, fled. What are the Scriptures of the prophets? They have pierced my hands and feet (Psalm 22:17); and elsewhere: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter (Isaiah 53:7). And in another place: He was led to death because of the iniquities of my people (Ibid., sec. 70).

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Next the testimony is set forth: now all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. And he does not say which ones, because it is found in nearly all of them; Psalm 22:17: they have dug my hands and feet, and they have numbered all my bones. And Isaiah 53:3: we have esteemed him the last of men, a man of sorrows. And he says that they might be fulfilled. The word "that" can be taken causatively, and in this sense it is not taken here; or consecutively, and in this sense it is taken here. …

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Remigius of Rheims

For because all the Prophets had foretold Christ's Passion, he does not cite any particular place, but says generally that the prophecies of all the Prophets were being fulfilled. In this act is shown the Apostles' frailty; in the first ardour of their faith they had promised to die with Him, but in their fear they forgot their promise and fled. …

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗