12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.



Ver. 12. None of the disciples durst ask him] They were ashamed to move further question in that which was to them all so evident. Neither yet may we imagine that they sat silent all dinner while in their Master’s presence, as monks and Turks use to do; {a} but that, although they were abashed to ask him who he was, yet they both asked and answered many other more profitable questions. Our Saviour never came to any man’s table, but he besprinkled the dishes with the salt of savoury discourse; so should we, but so (alas) we do not. Plato and Xenophon thought it fit and profitable that men’s speeches at meals should be written. And if Christians should so do, what kind of books would they be?



{a} Turcae perpetuum silentium teneat, ut muti. Cusp. de Caesario.