Matthew 17:11–12
Christ shows that the Jews are greatly ignorant of the scriptures, from which they did not recognize John — that is, the first Elijah, “who prepared the way of the Lord.” Not knowing him and killing the forerunner of Christ, they also failed to recognize the Lord himself and killed him.
Greek
Τὸ τῶν ἄρτων περισσεῦσαι τὰ κλάσματα πληθύος ἀνδρῶν οὐκ ὀλίγης κατακορεσθείσης πληροφορία σαφὴς ἂν γένοιτο, εἰ τῆς φιλο ξενίας τὸ χρῆμα πλουσίαν ἔχει παρὰ θεοῦ τὴν ἀντέκτισιν. ἔξεστι δὲ ἰδεῖν τοῖς ἀρχαιοτέροις θαύμασι τὰ νέα συμβαίνοντα καὶ μιᾶς ὄντα καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς δυνάμεως ἐνεργήματα. ἔβρεξεν ἐν ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα τοῖς ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, ἀλλ' ἰδοὺ δὴ πάλιν ἐν ἐρήμῳ τοῖς ἐν ἐνδείᾳ τροφῆς κεχορήγηκεν ἀφθόνως οἷον ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καθιεὶς αὐτήν· τὸ γὰρ πολυπλασιάσαι τὸ βραχὺ καὶ οἷον ἐκ τοῦ μηδενὸς τὴν οὕτω πολλὴν ἀποθρέψαι πληθὺν οὐκ ἀπεοικὸς ἂν εἴη τῷ πρώτῳ σημείῳ.
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Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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