Acts 1:16
Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Viri fratres, oportet impleri Scripturam quam prædixit Spiritus Sanctus per os David de Juda, qui fuit dux eorum qui comprehenderunt Jesum :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, ἔδει πληρωθῆναι τὴν γραφὴν ἣν προεῖπε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον διὰ στόματος Δαυὶδ περὶ Ἰούδα τοῦ γενομένου ὁδηγοῦ τοῖς συλλαβοῦσιν Ἰησοῦν,
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXVII
4. “The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob” ( ver. 2 ). I have made the foregoing remarks, that ye may not imagine the gates are one thing, the foundations another. Why are the Apostles and Prophets foundations? Because their authority is the support of our weakness. Why are they gates? because through them we enter the kingdom of God: for they proclaim it to us: and while we enter by their means, we enter also through Christ, Himself being the Gate. And twelve gates of Jerusalem are spoken of, and the one gate is Christ, and the twelve gates are Christ for Christ dwells in the twelve gates, hence was twelve the number of the Apostles. …
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily III on Acts i. 12
“These were all continuing with one accord in prayer together with the women.” ( v. 14 .) For this is a powerful weapon in temptations; and to this they had been trained. [“Continuing with one accord.”] Good. ( καλὥς ). Besides, the present temptation directed them to this: for they exceedingly feared the Jews. “With the women,” it is said: for he had said that they had followed Him: “and with Mary the mother of Jesus.” ( Luke xxiii. 55 .) How then [is it said, that “that disciple”] took her to his own home” ( John xix. 26 ), at that time? But then the Lord had brought them together again, and so returned. “And with His brethren.” ( John xvii. 5 .) These also were before unbelieving. “And in those days,” it says, “Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said.” ( v. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).