FAUSTS - With Jesus, the Son who comes to his brothers and sisters, comes " the Sabbath". Man, created on the sixth day and unable to reach the seventh, finally "walks" towards the fullness of life that he has always desired. At the sheep's door, a swimming pool " It is the name of a door from where the animals entered for the sacrifices of the temple. These are the sheep and oxen that Jesus had expelled during His first visit to Jerusalem. The Lord comes to take care of His flock (Zc10,2 - Ez34). The "beautiful Shepherd", who leads His sheep out of the fence so that they may have life (10:1), is also the "Sheep's Gate". In fact, it is the Son, the Lamb who replaces the victims of the temple. Through Him we have direct access to God. There was a man there": in the mass we see a man. It is the man! "This man "holds" himself in his condition of non-stay-in-foot. He is bound by his evil and he is bound to it, he is guarded by it and he guards it: he cures it and cuddles it, making it his identity. Jesus will speak of "sin". It is not a matter of personal sin, but of a "situation of sin". of an inheritance that we receive and pass on, increasing its capital "Jesus , having seen him..." The Father's eye is towards the Son and the Son's eye towards his sick brother. Jesus "knows" that man is so. He knows it because it is the eternal Word of God, He knows it because it is Flesh like all flesh. "Do you want to become healthy? "the question is not superfluous. This man is a chronically ill man, in whom the desire for life has died out. But desire is the hand to receive the gift. This sick man has no one. His need has closed him in solitude. He stands at the edge of the pool, never entering at the right time. As in a bad dream, it always comes too late. Jesus acts with the Word. The Word, as it creates, recreates it in this way: it awakens the dead man and gives him life again. "Take off your stretcher and walk" This expression is the centre of the story and of the dispute: it is spoken fifteen times (verses 8-9-10-11-12) as are the five porches of the pool and the books of the law. To rise again, to observe the Word and to walk before God: this is the healthy life, free from the poison that the devil has inoculated in those who listened to him. It is what the Word gives to the man who no longer dared to hope. "When this happened, it was "Saturday", the completion of creation and the fullness of life. Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath, the day of the Lord, came to bring man the Sabbath of God. For the Sabbath is made for man (Mk 2:27).
FAUSTS - With Jesus, the Son who comes to his brothers and sisters, comes
RispondiElimina" the Sabbath". Man, created on the sixth day and unable to reach the seventh, finally "walks" towards the fullness of life that he has always desired.
At the sheep's door, a swimming pool " It is the name of a door from where the animals entered for the sacrifices of the temple. These are the sheep and oxen that Jesus had expelled during His first visit to Jerusalem.
The Lord comes to take care of His flock (Zc10,2 - Ez34).
The "beautiful Shepherd", who leads His sheep out of the fence so that they may have life (10:1), is also the "Sheep's Gate".
In fact, it is the Son, the Lamb who replaces the victims of the temple.
Through Him we have direct access to God.
There was a man there": in the mass we see a man.
It is the man!
"This man "holds" himself in his condition of non-stay-in-foot.
He is bound by his evil and he is bound to it, he is guarded by it and he guards it: he cures it and cuddles it, making it his identity.
Jesus will speak of "sin". It is not a matter of personal sin, but of a "situation of sin". of an inheritance that we receive and pass on, increasing its capital
"Jesus , having seen him..." The Father's eye is towards the Son and the Son's eye towards his sick brother. Jesus "knows" that man is so.
He knows it because it is the eternal Word of God, He knows it because it is Flesh like all flesh.
"Do you want to become healthy? "the question is not superfluous.
This man is a chronically ill man, in whom the desire for life has died out. But desire is the hand to receive the gift. This sick man has no one. His need has closed him in solitude. He stands at the edge of the pool, never entering at the right time. As in a bad dream, it always comes too late.
Jesus acts with the Word. The Word, as it creates, recreates it in this way: it awakens the dead man and gives him life again.
"Take off your stretcher and walk" This expression is the centre of the story and of the dispute: it is spoken fifteen times (verses 8-9-10-11-12) as are the five porches of the pool and the books of the law. To rise again, to observe the Word and to walk before God: this is the healthy life, free from the poison that the devil has inoculated in those who listened to him. It is what the Word gives to the man who no longer dared to hope.
"When this happened, it was "Saturday", the completion of creation and the fullness of life. Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath, the day of the Lord, came to bring man the Sabbath of God.
For the Sabbath is made for man (Mk 2:27).