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John MacEvilly’s exposition of the gospel of John offers a clear, Catholic, passage-by-passage interpretation of the text. It combines traditional exegesis with moral exhortation and so has been widely used as a daily devotional. The work was originally intended for laymen, but quickly found a place as a textbook in seminary education and has seen numerous editions.

1. “When Jesus had spoken these words,” recorded in chapters 15, 16, with the prayer, chapter 17, He went forth with “His disciples,” either from the supper room, according to some, or from the spot, on His way to Gethsemane, where, in the stillness of the night, He had concluded His discourse (see Matthew 26:30; John 14:30). “Over the brook Cedron.” This is not so particularly described by the other Evangelists, who, however, tell us what St. John here omits, viz., that the garden or plot of ground,
John 18:1