ACC ~ John 5 v11

A BOLD CONFESSION OF CURE

CHRYSOSTOM: Had he been inclined to deception, he might have said, “I am not doing this on my own but at the request of another. If it is a crime, accuse the one who commanded it, and I will lay down my bed.” In this way, he would have concealed his cure, knowing, as he did, that the real cause of their offense was not the breaking of the sabbath but the curing of his illness. But he neither concealed it nor asked for pardon. Instead he boldly confessed the cure. This is how he acted. But consider how unfairly they acted. They do not say, Who is it who made you whole? Rather, they keep bringing up the seeming transgression. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 37.2. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:129-30**.

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