Matthew 26:31
The disciples were troubled not as light people, but because the matter was full of much perplexity and the knowledge of this mystery was hard to grasp — how the one who raised the dead and did countless signs beyond human measure was handed over to so dishonorable a death. This was the one who had said through the prophet, “I will strike the shepherd.” That is why David also says to the Father, “For the one whom you struck, they themselves pursued.” Yet this did not happen entirely and wholly by the Father’s will; he wanted him not to suffer, if the Jews had accepted him. But since they did not receive him, the Father consented to the Son who chose to suffer this. That is why it is also said that the Father struck “the shepherd,” since he allowed him to suffer though able to prevent his suffering. The word said to Pilate by Christ is also to be understood thus: “You would have no authority at all against me unless it had been given you from above” — instead of “the Father did not consent to me who chose to suffer.”
Greek
Εἴ τις βούλοιτο διὰ τὸ φάναι τὸν κύριον ταύτην τὴν γενεὰν οὐχὶ μόνους ἐκείνους κατασημαίνεσθαι, πρὸς οὓς ἦν ὁ λόγος, ἀλλ' ὅλων ὥσπερ τῶν φονευτῶν τὸ γένος, τοῦ ὀρθῶς ἔχοντος ἐξοίχεται· εὑρίσκομεν γὰρ τὴν ἁγίαν γραφὴν τὰς ἰσοτροπίας οἱονεί πως καὶ ταυτοβουλίας ὀνο μάζουσαν ὡς γένος. καὶ γοῦν ὁ μακάριος ἔφη ∆αβὶδ "γενεὰ εὐθείων εὐλογηθήσεται" καὶ "αὕτη ἡ γενεὰ ζητούντων" τὸν κύριον. οὐκοῦν τὸ ταύτην, εἰ καὶ λέγοιτο δεικτικῶς, οὐχὶ μόνον τάχα που κατασημῆναι φαμὲν τοὺς τότε παρόντας καὶ ἀκροωμένους, ἀλλὰ πάντα τὸν φονευτὴν καὶ ὑπὸ τὸ αὐτὸ τῆς ἀσεβείας πίπτοντα γένος· συντέξεται γὰρ τῷ ὁμοίῳ τὸν ὅμοιον ὡς ἀδελφὸν καὶ ὁμογενές.
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Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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