FAUSTI - A second level of knowledge of Jesus is to recognize him not only as a prophet who speaks in the name of God, but also as the Christ who accomplishes all his Word, realizing the promised kingdom. The title of Christ goes beyond that of prophet: Christ not only says the Word, always unheard of, but accomplishes it, restoring man to his truth. In fact, the evil that the Word denounces and does the good that it proclaims wins What is shocking, then as now, is that God is a concrete, particular and unique man, well defined. But it is precisely this very fact that he is a flesh, equal to ours, that is the salvation of all other flesh. We always prefer - perhaps because we do not accept our concrete humanity, a divine being who is a universal man, not tied to the contingent, a bit vaporous and inconsistent. But this is not taking into consideration either man or God. My ego is unique and cannot be annulled in general. God Himself is personal and takes shape in the singularity of a flesh. Before the Son, as before the brother, there is love or hatred, not indifference. It is the last day of the feast, an anticipation of His last day, which has not yet come. But there are already the premises. The 'hour', however, is not determined by man, but by God Himself: it is 'His' hour.The chief priests and Pharisees had sent their servants to arrest Jesus, and they were surprised and disdained because they came back empty-handed and they asked why. "Never a man spoke like that." They get an unexpected answer that surprises of irony. His Word surprises them and captures them.
His own saying and His person have no comparison with any other man. Listening to Him they are fascinated by the Word that was from the beginning. Light enters darkness and darkness cannot capture it. They are enlightened by it. The Pharisees reproach the servants for being deceived "even "they, beyond the crowd. While the crowd and the servants are willing to grasp the mystery of Jesus, the leaders of the people remain closed in their self-sufficiency. How can believe anyone who seeks the glory that comes from men and not that which comes from God ? Instead of observing the law, the teachers accuse the crowds who recognize the One of whom it speaks. Nicodemus: he too is a Pharisee, one of the leaders. He is "one of them". It is the same one who came to Jesus at night, to be enlightened, will reappear at the end to ask for His body and lay the seed of the kingdom under the ground. The division also takes place within the Pharisees. Nicodemus takes the law in its entirety, not as a defense of his own power. Thus the accusation against the Pharisees returns: it is they who transgress the law, because they condemn a person without listening to what he says and verifying what he does. They judge on the basis of prejudices, distorting the law: instead of being an instrument of justice, they make of it the cross of righteous.
FAUSTI - A second level of knowledge of Jesus is to recognize him not only as a prophet who speaks in the name of God, but also as the Christ who accomplishes all his Word, realizing the promised kingdom.
RispondiEliminaThe title of Christ goes beyond that of prophet: Christ not only says the Word, always unheard of, but accomplishes it, restoring man to his truth.
In fact, the evil that the Word denounces and does the good that it proclaims wins
What is shocking, then as now, is that God is a concrete, particular and unique man, well defined. But it is precisely this very fact that he is a flesh, equal to ours, that is the salvation of all other flesh.
We always prefer - perhaps because we do not accept our concrete humanity,
a divine being who is a universal man, not tied to the contingent, a bit vaporous and inconsistent.
But this is not taking into consideration either man or God.
My ego is unique and cannot be annulled in general.
God Himself is personal and takes shape in the singularity of a flesh. Before the Son, as before the brother, there is love or hatred, not indifference.
It is the last day of the feast, an anticipation of His last day, which has not yet come. But there are already the premises.
The 'hour', however, is not determined by man, but by God Himself: it is 'His' hour.The chief priests and Pharisees had sent their servants to arrest Jesus, and they were surprised and disdained because they came back empty-handed and they asked why.
"Never a man spoke like that." They get an unexpected answer that surprises of irony.
His Word surprises them and captures them.
His own saying and His person have no comparison with any other man.
Listening to Him they are fascinated by the Word that was from the beginning.
Light enters darkness and darkness cannot capture it. They are enlightened by it.
The Pharisees reproach the servants for being deceived "even "they, beyond the crowd.
While the crowd and the servants are willing to grasp the mystery of Jesus, the leaders of the people remain closed in their self-sufficiency. How can believe anyone who seeks the glory that comes from men and not that which comes from God ? Instead of observing the law, the teachers accuse the crowds who recognize the One of whom it speaks.
Nicodemus: he too is a Pharisee, one of the leaders. He is "one of them". It is the same one who came to Jesus at night, to be enlightened, will reappear at the end to ask for His body and lay the seed of the kingdom under the ground.
The division also takes place within the Pharisees. Nicodemus takes the law in its entirety, not as a defense of his own power.
Thus the accusation against the Pharisees returns: it is they who transgress the law, because they condemn a person without listening to what he says and verifying what he does.
They judge on the basis of prejudices, distorting the law: instead of being an instrument of justice, they make of it the cross of righteous.