Lucas 5
Ephrem the Syrian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 5:4-7
We have been toiling all night. This refers symbolically to the prophets. His teaching came down from on high on the world, which stands by way of parable for the sea. The two boats represent the circumcised and the uncircumcised. They made a sign to their companions. This refers symbolically to the seventy-two, for these disciples were too few in number for the catch and the harvest. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 5.18
Lucas 5:12-13
Go, show yourself. This was for the sake of the priests. For the leper was afraid to touch him lest he defile him. But the Lord touched him to show him that he would not be defiled, he, at whose rebuke the defilement fled from the defiled one. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 12.21
Lucas 5:21-24
While the Pharisee doubted that our Lord was a prophet, he was unwittingly pledging himself to the truth by thinking, "If this man were a prophet, he would know that this woman is a sinner." Therefore, if our Lord indeed knows that she is a sinner, then, Pharisee, by your own reasoning he indeed is a prophet. And so our Lord did not hesitate to point out not only that she was a sinner but also that she had sinned very much, so that the testimony of his own mouth would trap the accuser. [The Pharisee] was one of those who had said, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Our Lord took this testimony from them, that whoever is able to forgive sin is God. From this point on, the struggle was for our Lord to show them whether or not he was able to forgive sin. And so he quickly healed the parts [of the body] that were visible, to confirm that he had forgiven the sins which were not visible. — HOMILY ON OUR LORD 21.1
Lucas 5:34
During the entire period that our Lord was in the midst of the world, he compared it with a bridal chamber and himself with the bridegroom. For the bridal guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them. …He called his disciples bridal guests because they are members of the church, and ministers of the feast, and heralds who invite those who sit at table. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 5.22A-22B