The early church

What Christians of the first thousand years said about the Bible, verse by verse: John Chrysostom, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Bede and many more. Most of it comes from the Catena Aurea, the “golden chain” of comments on the four Gospels that Thomas Aquinas gathered in the 1260s.

Genesis 57 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 24 25 26 32 41

Exodus 7 comments

3 7 12 18 20 22 32

Leviticus 1 comment

Numbers 4 comments

15 16 28

Joshua 2 comments

6 10

Judges 1 comment

Ruth 1 comment

1 Samuel 10 comments

2 3 6 7 8 13 15

2 Samuel 3 comments

7 12 24

1 Kings 2 comments

1 12

2 Kings 3 comments

17 18

2 Chronicles 3 comments

1 18 33

Job 1 comment

Psalms 2092 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150

Proverbs 5 comments

1 9 10 16 24

Ecclesiastes 9 comments

1 2 8 10 12

Song of Solomon 2 comments

1 4

Isaiah 15 comments

2 3 7 10 11 19 26 42 48 55 65

Jeremiah 12 comments

1 2 9 16 23 25 29 31

Lamentations 1 comment

Ezekiel 6 comments

3 20 28 33 34 36

Daniel 5 comments

2 7 12

Joel 1 comment

Amos 3 comments

5 7 9

Micah 3 comments

4 5

Nahum 1 comment

Habakkuk 1 comment

Haggai 2 comments

Zechariah 3 comments

2 5 13

Malachi 8 comments

1 2 3 4

Matthew 3906 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Mark 1376 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Luke 3232 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

John 3441 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Acts 1224 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Romans 382 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

1 Corinthians 401 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

2 Corinthians 316 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Galatians 153 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6

Ephesians 210 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6

Philippians 110 comments

1 2 3 4

Colossians 122 comments

1 2 3 4

1 Thessalonians 79 comments

1 2 3 4 5

2 Thessalonians 47 comments

1 2 3

1 Timothy 160 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6

2 Timothy 77 comments

1 2 3 4

Titus 38 comments

1 2 3

Philemon 33 comments

Hebrews 342 comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1 Peter 1 comment

2 Peter 2 comments

1 John 191 comments

1 2 3 4 5

Jude 1 comment

Revelation 22 comments

1 20 21

From the Historical Christian Faith Commentaries Database (public domain), using only 19th-century public-domain translations: the Catena Aurea (translated under J. H. Newman, 1841–45) and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (1886–89).