Loading…
VRSZ
This sets the art on your cards and whose commentary you read on each verse. You can change it later in settings.
Translation
Loading…
What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
But let us see what saith this wretched man, when convicted by his Master. What then saith he? "Is it I, Rabbi?" And why did he not ask this from the beginning? He thought to escape knowledge by its being said, "one of you;" but when He had made him manifest, he ventured again to ask, confiding in the clemency of his Master, that He would not convict him. O blindness! Whereunto hath it led him? …
Western Saints
Jerome
But Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said: 'Is it I, Lord?' Lest he should appear to betray himself by remaining silent, he likewise asks, being tormented by his conscience, who had boldly put his hand into the dish. Am I, Rabbi? He said to him: You have said it. And he joins a mingling of emotion, or a sign of disbelief. For the others who were not going to betray, they say: Am I, Lord? …
Thomas Aquinas
And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: is it I, Rabbi? It should be noted that he said this with pretense; hence, because he delayed in asking, he signified that he was sad, but he was feigning. Likewise, the others call him Lord, but this one calls him Master. Yet he was both; John 13:13: you call me Master and Lord. And you say well; for so I am. He saith to him: thou hast said it. Note the meekness of the Lord. …
Remigius of Rheims
Which may be understood thus; Thou sayest it, and thou sayest what is true; or, Thou hast said this, not I; leaving him room for repentance so long as his villainy was not publicly exposed.
Translation