On St John

What it shares word for word

Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. On St John shares wording with 9 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.

• St John — 29 passages, the longest 29 words. He that despiseth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day John 12 and Tractate 54
• Augustine, The City of God — 13 passages, the longest 33 words. called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren Tractate 105 and Book 13
• Chrysostom, On St Matthew — 7 passages, the longest 15 words. beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold the same baptizeth, and all men come Homily 36 and Tractate 13
• Chrysostom, On the Acts — 5 passages, the longest 18 words. As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom He will Tractate 110 and Homily 2
• Cyril of Alexandria, On St Luke — 3 passages, the longest 11 words. but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever Sermon 41 and Tractate 124
• Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ — 2 passages, the longest 18 words. the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice Tractate 13 and Book 4
• The Acts — 1 passage, the longest 8 words. to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me Acts 9 and Tractate 31
• Augustine, The Confessions — 1 passage, the longest 15 words. the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things Tractate 69 and Book 7
• St Luke — 1 passage, the longest 8 words. me;" and, "He that despiseth you, despiseth me Luke 10 and Tractate 89

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Who quotes it

Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.

• It quotes St John throughout — that is what it is. It reaches 21 of the 21 chapters, in 111 pieces.

The names it carries

Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.

• Peter 219times
• Abraham 181times
• Paul 131times
• Moses 116times
• Pilate 59times
• Jerusalem 44times
• David 32times
• Rome 21times
• Egypt 17times
• Carthage 11times
• Apollo 10times
• Solomon 7times
• Corinth 6times
• Babylon 5times

Where this text comes from

Translator: Schaff, NPNF 1.7, 1888. Source: CCEL.

The text here is the translation in Philip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, volume 7, 1888 — public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Delivered at Hippo between about 406 and 420, partly preached and partly dictated, and preserved complete in Latin.

Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.