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26 Mar 2024

Where Are You Going?

Sed quaeritur hic primo de hoc quod dicit: Nemo ex vobis interrogat me: Quo vadis?

Contra: Supra decimo tertio: Dicit ei Petrus: Domine, quo vadis?

Respondeo: Dicendum, quod Dominus ibat ad ignominiam passionis, ibat ad gloriam resurrectionis; et cum prius loqueretur, quod iret ad passionem, quaesivit Petrus: Quo vadis? Sed modo vult eis dicere, quod vadit ad gloriam resurrectionis; unde: Vado ad eum qui misit me. Et ipsi tantum turbati erant de itinere ad passionem, quod nihil cogitabant de gloria. Ideo de hac non quaerebant; sed Dominus volebat, quod quaererent, ut ipsos consolaretur.

Sanctus Bonaventura, Commentarius In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput XVI

Source: Here, p1038
Question must be asked of this which He says: None of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 1

Against this: in the thirteenth chapter, Peter says to Him, 'Lord, where are you going?' 2

I answer that it must be said that when the Lord was going to the ignominy of the passion, He was going to the glory of the resurrection, and when He spoke previously that He was to go to the passion, Peter asked, 'Where are you going?' But now He wished to say to them that He was going to the glory of the resurrection, whence: 'I go to Him who sent me.' 1 Yet since they were troubled only because of the way of the passion, they thought nothing of the glory. Therefore they did not ask about this, but the Lord wished that they did ask, that He might comfort them.

Saint Bonaventura, Commentary On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 16

1 Jn 16.5
2 Jn 13.36

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