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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2025
In the September issue of Blackfriars we took occasion to point out the fundamental and very serious error of Pere de la Taille’s book, Mysterium Fidei, on the Sacrifice of Calvary. Our last argument against the new theory of Père de la Taille was drawn from the Gospel of St. John. We said: ‘If there is one Evangelist who seems concerned to bring out the fact that Jesus was a priest and that His death was the act of sacrificial redemption, it is St. John . . . Yet St. John does not mention the Last Supper’—which, according to Pere de la Taille, was the ‘unbloody Oblation of the bloody Immolation to be made on Calvary.’ We have therefore felt it might further our readers’ thought if we made a study of St. John’s attitude towards the Sacrifice of Calvary.
To understand the sacrificial teaching of St. John’s Gospel, we must compare it with (i) the Synoptists,
(2) the Epistle of St. Paul, and (3) the Epistles and Apocalypse of St. John. Four times do the Synoptists record that our Blessed Lord referred to His coming death. The following group from St. Mark may be of use :
viii. 31.
And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things.
And be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and scribes.
And be killed.
And after three days rise again.
Mark. ix. 30.
And He taught the disciples and said to them.
The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of men.
And they shall kill Him.
And after that he shall be killed He shall rise again on the third day.
x. 32»33-
He began to tell them the things that should befall Him,
Saying, Behold we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and to the ancients.
And they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the gentiles, and they shall mock Him and spit on Him and kill Him.
And the third day He shall rise again.
1 We have not made an explicit comparison with the Epistle to the Hebrews. The uncertain date and indeed authorship of the Epistle would make such a comparison beyond the limits of this paper.