FAUSTI - Jesus cries, it's a cry that still resonates. To those who say they know where He comes from, He replies that they know, but only by half: they know where He comes from as a man, but they ignore His divine origin. Jesus comes from One that they do not know and that no one has ever seen. The origin of His person is the same as that of His teaching : It is God Himself. Jesus knows the One who sent Him. He is the Word that was before the world, that was with God and is God; Now He is with us to give us the opportunity to become children of God. The answer to Jesus' proposal leaves no way out, but darkness cannot stop the light. The hour of the Son is not determined by men, but by the Father, Who will make it the hour of His glorification. For the moment it has not yet come. The word "sign" recalls how much God worked with Moses to free His people. Many in the crowd believed in Jesus for the " signs ". These are the actions that He performs, so that it may be believed that He is the Messiah, the Son of God. "Where am I, you cannot come," Jesus says to those who, with murderous intent, ask, "Where is He?" Jesus secretly arrives in the middle of the feast, directly to the temple, and begins to teach. He had departed from Jerusalem right after that the paralytic was cured. The threat of darkness that want to capture the light dominates this third stay in Jerusalem; it will be exacerbated in the fourth and will take place in the last. The text begins with the enemies looking for Him to know where He is and ends with their question about what the Words mean. "You will look for me and you will not find me, and where I am you cannot come." - The form of the text, as usual in John, is a dramatic debate between Jesus and various characters: it is the divine human drama, which takes place between the Word and us who listen to it. In fact, it challenges us now as it did then, stirring up each time what it has stirred up in the first listeners. Her intention is to bring us out of the slavery of lies and from the darkness of death to let us enter into the freedom of truth and into the light of life. The text narrates - and at the same time works - the slow path of liberation that the Word carries forward in the listener. His interlocutors know the Scriptures, but when God realizes what He has said, I am not able to understand this. His promise is greater than any fame (Psalm 138); in fact, the promised gift is He Himself who promises. The Message and the action of Jesus, Who out of love gives His life to His brothers and sisters, reveal Him as the Son. But the cross will definitively confirm His Word and accomplish His work: it will reveal Him as the Lord of life just when He gives His life.
FAUSTI - Jesus cries, it's a cry that still resonates. To those who say they know where He comes from, He replies that they know, but only by half: they know where He comes from as a man, but they ignore His divine origin.
RispondiEliminaJesus comes from One that they do not know and that no one has ever seen.
The origin of His person is the same as that of His teaching : It is God Himself.
Jesus knows the One who sent Him.
He is the Word that was before the world, that was with God and is God;
Now He is with us to give us the opportunity to become children of God. The answer to Jesus' proposal leaves no way out, but darkness cannot stop the light.
The hour of the Son is not determined by men, but by the Father, Who will make it the hour of His glorification. For the moment it has not yet come.
The word "sign" recalls how much God worked with Moses to free His people.
Many in the crowd believed in Jesus for the " signs ".
These are the actions that He performs, so that it may be believed that He is the Messiah, the Son of God. "Where am I, you cannot come," Jesus says to those who, with murderous intent, ask, "Where is He?"
Jesus secretly arrives in the middle of the feast, directly to the temple, and begins to teach. He had departed from Jerusalem right after that the paralytic was cured.
The threat of darkness that want to capture the light dominates this third stay in Jerusalem; it will be exacerbated in the fourth and will take place in the last.
The text begins with the enemies looking for Him to know where He is and ends with their question about what the Words mean.
"You will look for me and you will not find me, and where I am you cannot come." - The form of the text, as usual in John, is a dramatic debate between Jesus and various characters: it is the divine human drama, which takes place between the Word and us who listen to it. In fact, it challenges us now as it did then, stirring up each time what it has stirred up in the first listeners.
Her intention is to bring us out of the slavery of lies and from the darkness of death to let us enter into the freedom of truth and into the light of life.
The text narrates - and at the same time works - the slow path of liberation that the Word carries forward in the listener.
His interlocutors know the Scriptures,
but when God realizes what He has said, I am not able to understand this.
His promise is greater than any fame (Psalm 138); in fact, the promised gift is He Himself who promises.
The Message and the action of Jesus, Who out of love gives His life to His brothers and sisters, reveal Him as the Son. But the cross will definitively confirm His Word and accomplish His work: it will reveal Him as the Lord of life just when He gives His life.