João 5
Ephrem the Syrian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
João 5:8
Was it not enough to say, "Rise up and go"? For was it not a miracle that the one who could not turn about on his bed could rise up easily and go? Yet to show that he had given him a full healing, he also made him carry his bed—and not like the sick who return [to health] little by little. [Our Lord said], "Take up your bed and go." And even if he remained silent, his bed would cry out. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 13.2
João 5:33-34
If he [our Lord] was not receiving testimony from human beings, why did he go to John to receive testimony from him? John, however, was sent from God: "He who sent us spoke to me." Through John, the Father was testifying about him, just as he [our Lord] said, "Moses also wrote about me," along with other statements. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 13.11
João 5:35
"He [John] was a lamp that was burning," which even as it grew was also passing away, for he was shining in the night so that he might show that the appointed time of the sun's power was fading, and its beams of light were vanishing. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 13.10