John 6:42
Douay-Rheims
And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?
John Chrysostom
(Hom. xlvi. 1) It is evident that they did not yet know of His miraculous birth: for they call Him the Son of Joseph. Nor are they blamed for this. Our Lord does not reply, I am not the Son of Joseph: for the miracle of His birth would have overpowered them. And if the birth according to the flesh were above their belief, how much more that higher and ineffable birth.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:41-46
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.