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Volume one of Cyril of Alexander’s Commentary on the Gospel According to S. John is divided into ten chapters and covers John 1–9:1.

Galilee. Let him that loves learning again note well: for not in Jerusalem is the gathering, but without Judæa is the feast celebrated, as it were in the country of the Gentiles. For it is Galilee of the gentiles,* as the prophet saith. It is I suppose altogether plain, that the synagogue of the Jews rejected the Bridegroom from Heaven, and that the church of the Gentiles received Him, and that very gladly. The Saviour comes to the marriage not of His own accord; for He was being bidden by many voices
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