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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
And, in truth, had sought to do so before; for the Evangelist saith, "Therefore the Jews sought to kill Him"; and, "Why seek ye to kill Me?" But then they only sought, now they ratified their determination, and treated the action as their business.
Cyril of Alexandria
For they had the desire to defile themselves with Christ's Blood, and from the moment at which the assembly took place, it received as it were a fresh start, the common consent of all to it being publicly acknowledged. For the Evangelist did not say simply: "From that hour they took counsel to commit the murder," but: "They took counsel together;" that is to say, the very thing which seemed desirable to each one individually was pleasing to them all collectively.
Theophylact of Ohrid
This means that from that day they especially and definitively confirmed themselves in this intention. They had plotted murder even before this, but weakly, and the matter was more of a question than a decision, but now a final judgment and decisive verdict had been reached. Even before they "sought to kill Him" (John 5:18), and He Himself, exposing them, said "Why do you seek to kill Me?" (John 7:19).
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
His persecutors accomplished this wicked purpose, and put Him to death, thinking to extinguish the devotion of His followers; but faith grew from the very thing which these cruel and unbelieving men thought would destroy it. That which human cruelty had executed against Him, He turned to the purposes of His mercy.
Thomas Aquinas
1581 Then when he says, So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death, the Evangelist sets down the agreement among the Jews on the death of Christ. But did they not previously think of putting him to death? It seems so, because before in many places it is stated that the Jews sought to kill him. I answer that they previously did have some desire to kill him, but from that day on, incited to anger by the words of Caiaphas, they ended with a firm proposal to kill him: "For their feet run to evil" (Prv 1:16).
Bonaventure
From that day therefore they devised to put him to death, no one any longer contradicting: because, even though they had sought before, as is said above in chapters 7 and 8: "Why do you seek to kill me?" yet not with so definite a plan. Question. It is asked whether the Jews sinned in giving this counsel. That they did, it seems, because the chief priests and Pharisees are rebuked for having killed the Lord or caused him to be killed, and the Lord himself rebuked them above in chapter seven. …
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