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LUKE 12:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 12:5Luke 12:7
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?”
I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God — the public acknowledgment of Jesus in the face of persecution constitutes the act of discipleship that the Son of Man will reciprocate at the final judgment. The social pressure to deny under interrogation is the testing of the same loyalty that privately calls Jesus Lord.

Church Fathers on Luke 12:6

Since unbelief springs from two causes, either from a deeply-seated malice or a sudden fear; lest any one from terror should be compelled to deny the God whom he acknowledges in his heart, He well adds, And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, &c.

Ambrose · 4th century

For it is not absolutely to every one that this discourse seems to apply, but to those who love God with their whole heart to whom it belongs to say, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? But they who are not such, are tottering, and ready to fall down. Moreover out Lord says, Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. How then is it not most ungrateful to Christ not to repay Him what we receive?

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Their rage then is but useless raving, who cast the lifeless limbs of martyrs to be torn in pieces by wild beasts and birds, seeing that they can in no wise prevent the omnipotence of God from quickening and bringing them to life again.

Bede · 8th century
Read all 22 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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