João 6
Alcuin of York
João 6:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Mystically, the sea signifies this tumultuous world. In the fulness of time, when Christ had entered the sea of our mortality by His birth, trodden it by His death, passed over it by His resurrection, then followed Him crowds of believers, both from the Jews and Gentiles. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] This sea hath different names, from the different places with which it is connected; the sea of Galilee, from the province; the sea of Tiberias, from the city of that name. It is called a sea, though it is not salt water, that name being applied to all large pieces of water, in Hebrew. This sea our Lord often passes over, in going to preach to the people bordering on it. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:2
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] viz. His giving sight to the blind, and other like miracles. And it should be understood, that all, whom He healed in body, He renewed likewise in soul. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:3
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] His leaving the multitude below, and ascending the heights with His disciples, signifies, that lesser precepts are to be given to beginners, higher to the more matured. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] His refreshing the people shortly before the Passover signifies our refreshment by the bread of the divine word; and the body and blood, i. e. our spiritual passover, by which we pass over from vice to virtue. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:5-6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And the Lord's eyes are spiritual gifts, which he mercifully bestows on His Elect. He turns His eyes upon them, i. e. has compassionate respect unto them. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:5-6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He asks him this question, not for His own information, but in order to show His yet unformed disciple his dulness of mind, which he could not perceive of himself. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:7
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Wherein he shows his dulness: for, had he perfect ideas of his Creator, he would not be thus doubting His power. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:10
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Sit down, i. e. lie down, as the ancient custom was, which they could do, as there was much grass in the place. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] His not making new loaves, but multiplying what there were, means that He did not reject the Old Testament, but only developed and explained it. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Baskets are used for servile work. The baskets here are the Apostles and their followers, who, though despised in this present life, are within filled with the riches of spiritual sacraments. The Apostles too are represented as baskets, because, that through them, the doctrine of the Trinity was to be preached in the four parts of the world. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:14
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Their faith being as yet weak, they only call our Lord a Prophet, not knowing that He was God. But the miracle had produced considerable effect upon them, as it made them call our Lord that Prophet, singling Him out from the rest. They call Him a Prophet, because some of the Prophets had worked miracles; and properly, inasmuch as our Lord calls Himself a Prophet; It cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. (Luke 13:33) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:15
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He who set an example of declining praise, and earthly power, sets teachers also an example of deliverance in preaching. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:22-23
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] To take the passage mystically: on the day following, i. e. after the ascension of Christ, the multitude standing in good works, not lying in worldly pleasures, expects Jesus to come to them. The one ship is the one Church: the other ships which come besides, are the conventicles of heretics, who seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 2:21) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:26
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Wherefore He well says, Ye seek Me, because ye did eat of the loaves. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:27
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Bodily food only supports the flesh of the outward man, and must be taken not once for all, but daily; whereas spiritual food remaineth for ever, imparting perpetual fulness, and immortality. When, through the hand of the priest, thou receivest the Body of Christ, think not of the priest which thou seest, but of the Priest thou dost not see. The priest is the dispenser of this food, not the author. The Son of man gives Himself to us, that we may abide in Him, and He in us. Do not conceive that Son of man to be the same as other sons of men: He stands alone in abundance of grace, separate and distinct from all the rest: for that Son of man is the Son of God, as it follows, For Him hath God the Father sealed. To seal is to put a mark upon; so the meaning is, Do not despise Me because I am the Son of man, for I am the Son of man in such sort, as that the Father hath sealed Me, i. e. given Me something peculiar, to the end that I should not be confounded with the human race, but that the human race should be delivered by Me. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:28
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] They understood that the meat, which remaineth unto eternal life, was the work of God: and therefore they ask Him what to do to work the work of God, i. e. obtain the meat: Then said they unto Him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:31
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And to exalt the miracle of the manna, they quote the Psalm, As it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:33
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Who by the humanity, which was assumed, came down from heaven, and by the divinity, which assumed it, gives life to the world. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:36
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] As if He said, I did not say what I did to you about the bread, because I thought you would eat it, but rather to convict you of unbelief. I say, that ye see Me, and believe not. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:37
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Whomsoever therefore the Father draweth to belief in Me, he, by faith, shall come to Me, that he may be joined to Me. And those, who in the steps of faith and good works, shall come to Me, I will in no wise cast out; i. e. in the secret habitation of a pure conscience, he shall dwell with Me, and at the last I will receive him to everlasting felicity. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:50-51
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Therefore I say, He that eateth this bread, dieth not: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:51
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But men must be quickened by my life: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live, not only now by faith and righteousness, but for ever. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 6:60
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] i. e. that I said, you should eat My flesh, and drink My blood. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas