John 12:27
Douay-Rheims
Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. lxvi) To our Lord’s exhortation to His disciples to endurance, they might have replied that it was easy for Him, Who was out of the reach of human pain, to talk philosophically about death, and to recommend others to bear what He is in no danger of having to bear Himself. So He lets them see that He is Himself in an agony, but that He does not intend to decline death, merely for the sake of relieving Himself: Now is My soul troubled.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:27-33
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.