Now we know (νυν εγνωκαμεν). Perfect active indicative of γινωσκω, state of completion, "Now since such talk we have come to certa…

You have a devil. You are deranged. Because he affirmed a thing which they supposed to be contrary to all experience, and to be impossible…

Abraham is dead, and the prophets.—They still do not understand His speech, and take His words in a merely physi…

I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …

St. Gregory the Great: Just as it is necessary that the good should grow better through insult, so the wicked are made worse by…

To receive eternal life by keeping Jesus’ word seemed to the Jews the height of absurdity. They felt that their charge of demon-possession was conf…

Now we know. The reprobate persist in their stupidity and are not moved by promises any more than by threats, so that they can neither be …

Then said the Jews to him
Upon these last words that he spoke, giving assurance, that whoever kept his saying, should…

Observe Christ's disregard of the applause of men. Those who are dead to the praises of men can bear their contempt. God will seek the honour of al…

1. Above, our Lord had promised two things to his followers: liberation from darkne and the attainment of life, saying, he who follows m…