Matthew 8:16
Why did they not bring them by day? Was it caution toward the scribes and Pharisees, or shame again at their weaknesses, as with Nicodemus — or because the sick had no one to bring them to Jesus (Matthew 8:16)?
Greek
∆ιὰ τί δὲ ἡμέρας οὐ προσήνεγκαν; πότερον εὐλαβούμενοι τοὺς γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαίους ἢ ἂν πάλιν αἰσχυνόμενοι ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀσθενείαις αὐτῶν ὡς Νικόδημος ἢ ἂν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντάς τινας προσαγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς τῷ Ἰησοῦ.
About this text
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.
Witnesses
- 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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