Matthew 5:17
Douay-Rheims
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
And that for two reasons. First, that by these words He might admonish His disciples, that as He fulfilled the Law, so they should strive to fulfil it. Secondly, because the Jews would falsely accuse them as subverting the Law, therefore he answers the calumny beforehand, but in such a manner as that He should not be thought to come simply to preach the Law as the Prophets had done.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:17-19
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.