When the disciples inquire and Jesus their master replies to them, it’s as if we too are learning with them when we hear or read the holy Gospel. ... Let us with them be inquiring disciples, and let us also listen to our common master ... so that it’s not only they who then heard him speak but we, too, who can learn this from his Gospel.  (In Ioannem Tr. 76, 1, 2; PL 35, 1831)