FAUSTI - Jesus, more than being captured, captures everyone. What follows will be His voluntary surrender to the brothers. It is the gift of Love that darkness takes. Thus they conceive it and become pregnant by light. The initiative is entirely of Jesus, Light of the world. By giving Himself to men, He reveals the Glory and power of God Love.The Church is made by those who have understood that they are among those to which Jesus gives Himself. Jesus, come out of the Father, enters the garden to fulfill His mission and free man. This garden is "the place". The term is connected with the temple, It is the "place" of the meeting, (Greek: synagogue), where He is with them so that they too may be with Him. After Jesus entered the garden with His disciples, Judas also enters the scene with his adversaries. Where are the children of the light, (12:36) the one who had come into the garden on darkness and the other who are victims of it. The term is connected with the temple, In the garden there is the clash between the Word, which creates everything, and the lie, which entered into Judah as in Adam, which destroys everything. In the garden, besides the author of the evil, there is also the author of the good, who holds the direction. The last word belongs to the Word, the beginning and the end of everything, which brings everything to the expected good. Jesus, the Savior of the world, meets with all, far and near, gathered against Him. The enormous number of soldiers indicates the greatness and vastness of the hatred of the world against Him who bears the sin of the world. The immeasurable violence of evil highlights the power of Love and makes Glory shine. The theme of passion is the kingship of the Lord which is manifested to all peoples. "I am" Here means: "I am Jesus, the Nazorean that you seek". Jesus confirms His identity as Nazorean, King of the Jews. But He also affirms that He is king in a new way: it is I-Am, the Lord Himself who reigns. In fact, the expression recalls His divine identity: "Before Abraham was, I am" (8:58). It is the Name of the Lord, which we will all know, from the smallest to the greatest, when He has forgiven us, concluding the New Covenant, and giving us a new heart (Jer 31:31). Judas is not "beside" Jesus, but "beside" His enemies. He appears for the last time on this night, listening to the revelation of "I am". Afterwards, dazzled by the light, he disappears from the scene. John specifically no longer tells anything about him, unlike Matthew. What about the darkness invested by the light? Before the Lord the enemies retreat and fall, (Sl 27,2-35,4 -56,10-70,3). It is a gesture of adoration and surrender of the enemy before the Son of God, as demons do in the other Gospels. The head of the world has no power over Him (14,30). Jesus surrenders Himself of His own free will, thus throwing Him out of the world. (12,31-33). The cross of Jesus is not the end of a criminal abandoned by God. It is the victorious revelation of the Glory: veiled in the first garden, it is revealed in this garden. The enemy, who had lied, retreats and falls before Him, overcome by the Truth. "Again I asked them: - Who are you looking for?" Jesus asks the question again and gets the same answer. The repetition wants to underline the identity of Jesus as Nazorean, giving prominence to His royalty. "I have told you that I am. Jesus reaffirms that He is Nazarene, saying: "I am". It is the Lord of the universe who creates and disposes of everything according to His will of Love. In fact, Jesus, the Word that has become flesh, is both the Son of man and the Son of God. Neither the humanity nor the divinity of Jesus is ever questioned in the New Testament. However, while the other Gospels show in Him the humanity of God, John shows in Him the divinity of man. "Let them go" Jesus is the Beautiful Shepherd, who exposes, arranges and lays down His life to save the sheep from wolves, thieves and robbers.
-->His words, in fact, have divine authority: He is the Word. The twofold sword Peter does not have is the Word of God (Heb 4:12). Instead, he has an instrument of violence, like the enemies of Jesus. That is why he will deny Him. After Easter, Peter will "pull" his nets full of fish. Peter's gesture is an eternal prophecy. While Peter lets himself be overcome by evil, Jesus conquers evil by good (Rom 12:21). "The chalice that the Father has given me, will I not drink it?" It is the chalice of anger and fury, full of the evil of the world, the chalice of injustice, which to the just touches to drink. Drinking this cup is "the power". the glory of the Son, who is the same as the Father. To love a love stronger than any evil and than death itself. This is the "command" that the Son has received. Jesus had just said to Peter: "Where I go, now you cannot follow me, you will follow me later". When he protested that he wanted to follow Him, until he gave his life for Him, Jesus predicted His denial. Peter is really willing to die for Jesus. He held the sword to defend Him, with the risk of being killed. He has not yet understood that the Lord must die, for him as for all. Salvation is not that I die for Him, but that He dies for me. I must not earn His Love. His Love for me is unconditional and free, mine for Him comes later, as a response to His for me. Peter follows Him to see how things end. He is here on his own initiative, to show Him his friendship at all costs. But he is not yet a disciple of the Master who washes his feet, of the beautiful Shepherd who gives life, of the Son of the lifted up man who reveals: "I am". He loves Jesus but cannot follow Him on His way. In fact, he will understand from experience that nothing can ever separate him from God's love. Not from his love for God, but from God's Love for him in Christ Jesus, who loved him and gave Himself for him.
FAUSTI - Jesus, more than being captured, captures everyone.
RispondiEliminaWhat follows will be His voluntary surrender to the brothers.
It is the gift of Love that darkness takes.
Thus they conceive it and become pregnant by light.
The initiative is entirely of Jesus, Light of the world.
By giving Himself to men, He reveals the Glory and power of God Love.The Church is made by those who have understood that they are among those to which Jesus gives Himself.
Jesus, come out of the Father, enters the garden to fulfill His mission and free man.
This garden is "the place". The term is connected with the temple,
It is the "place" of the meeting, (Greek: synagogue), where He is with them so that they too may be with Him.
After Jesus entered the garden with His disciples, Judas also enters the scene with his adversaries.
Where are the children of the light, (12:36) the one who had come into the garden on darkness and the other who are victims of it.
The term is connected with the temple,
In the garden
there is the clash between the Word, which creates everything, and the lie, which entered into Judah as in Adam, which destroys everything.
In the garden, besides the author of the evil, there is also the author of the good, who holds the direction.
The last word belongs to the Word, the beginning and the end of everything, which brings everything to the expected good.
Jesus, the Savior of the world, meets with all, far and near, gathered against Him.
The enormous number of soldiers indicates the greatness and vastness of the hatred of the world against Him who bears the sin of the world. The immeasurable violence of evil highlights the power of Love and makes Glory shine.
The theme of passion is the kingship of the Lord which is manifested to all peoples.
"I am" Here means: "I am Jesus, the Nazorean that you seek".
Jesus confirms His identity as Nazorean, King of the Jews.
But He also affirms that He is king in a new way: it is I-Am, the Lord Himself who reigns.
In fact, the expression recalls His divine identity: "Before Abraham was, I am" (8:58).
It is the Name of the Lord, which we will all know, from the smallest to the greatest, when He has forgiven us, concluding the New Covenant, and giving us a new heart (Jer 31:31).
Judas is not "beside" Jesus, but "beside" His enemies.
He appears for the last time on this night, listening to the revelation of "I am".
Afterwards, dazzled by the light, he disappears from the scene. John specifically no longer tells anything about him, unlike Matthew. What about the darkness invested by the light?
Before the Lord the enemies retreat and fall, (Sl 27,2-35,4 -56,10-70,3).
It is a gesture of adoration and surrender of the enemy before the Son of God, as demons do in the other Gospels.
The head of the world has no power over Him (14,30).
Jesus surrenders Himself of His own free will, thus throwing Him out of the world.
(12,31-33). The cross of Jesus is not the end of a criminal abandoned by God.
It is the victorious revelation of the Glory: veiled in the first garden, it is revealed in this garden.
The enemy, who had lied, retreats and falls before Him, overcome by the Truth. "Again I asked them: - Who are you looking for?" Jesus asks the question again and gets the same answer.
The repetition wants to underline the identity of Jesus as Nazorean, giving prominence to His royalty.
"I have told you that I am. Jesus reaffirms that He is Nazarene, saying: "I am".
It is the Lord of the universe who creates and disposes of everything according to His will of Love.
In fact, Jesus, the Word that has become flesh, is both the Son of man and the Son of God.
Neither the humanity nor the divinity of Jesus is ever questioned in the New Testament.
However, while the other Gospels show in Him the humanity of God, John shows in Him the divinity of man.
"Let them go" Jesus is the Beautiful Shepherd, who exposes, arranges and lays down His life to save the sheep from wolves, thieves and robbers.
-->His words, in fact, have divine authority: He is the Word.
RispondiEliminaThe twofold sword Peter does not have is the Word of God (Heb 4:12).
Instead, he has an instrument of violence, like the enemies of Jesus. That is why he will deny Him.
After Easter, Peter will "pull" his nets full of fish. Peter's gesture is an eternal prophecy.
While Peter lets himself be overcome by evil, Jesus conquers evil by good (Rom 12:21).
"The chalice that the Father has given me, will I not drink it?" It is the chalice of anger and fury, full of the evil of the world, the chalice of injustice, which to the just touches to drink.
Drinking this cup is "the power". the glory of the Son, who is the same as the Father.
To love a love stronger than any evil and than death itself.
This is the "command" that the Son has received.
Jesus had just said to Peter: "Where I go, now you cannot follow me, you will follow me later". When he protested that he wanted to follow Him, until he gave his life for Him, Jesus predicted His denial. Peter is really willing to die for Jesus.
He held the sword to defend Him, with the risk of being killed.
He has not yet understood that the Lord must die, for him as for all.
Salvation is not that I die for Him, but that He dies for me.
I must not earn His Love. His Love for me is unconditional and free, mine for Him comes later, as a response to His for me. Peter follows Him to see how things end. He is here on his own initiative, to show Him his friendship at all costs. But he is not yet a disciple of the Master who washes his feet, of the beautiful Shepherd who gives life, of the Son of the lifted up man who reveals: "I am".
He loves Jesus but cannot follow Him on His way.
In fact, he will understand from experience that nothing can ever separate him from God's love. Not from his love for God, but from God's Love for him in Christ Jesus, who loved him and gave Himself for him.