But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
By these words He quenched their anger, indicating that to the Scriptures also, this seemed good. Wherefore there too He prayed, that they might take meekly what befell Him, when they had learned that this again is done according to God's will.