FAUSTI - Jesus does not suffer the Passion. He is its protagonist, conscious and free ( 13,1-3). First he knows that everything is accomplished, then He says it and finally He does it. His Word precedes the fact: "the Word" does what it says and returns to the One who sent it not without having accomplished what it was sent for (Is 55:11). Thirst, absolute need, even more than hunger, is the desire for water, for life. God, being perfectly loving and loved, is the desire to love. The fulfillment of Scripture flows from this thirst of His. For itself the expression is not a biblical quotation. Many Psalms are about our thirst for God (42:2-63:2); here, however, it is about God's thirst for us, the source of our thirst for Him. This thirst is therefore to be read first of all in the light of the first visit to the Temple, identified with the Body of the Dead and Risen Jesus, devoured by the fire of that house of the Father which are the brothers and sisters. (2:13) : it is thirst to give the Spirit, who remembers when Jesus, tired and sitting on the well, asks for a drink - it was the sixth hour!- (4,6) and promises to the Samaritan living water ( 4, 10-14). This thirst is then to be read in the light of the world's gratuitous hatred against Him which is gratuitous Love. Thirst also recalls Jesus' cry in the temple on the last day, the great day of the feast: "Whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his heart" (7:37). This river of living water is the Spirit that believers in Him will receive when He will glorifieded. This thirst desires to be read in the light of the world's gratuitous hatred against Him which is gratuitous love. Thirst also recalls Jesus' cry in the temple on the last day, the great day of the feast: "Whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his bosom" (7:37). This river of living water is the Spirit that believers in him will receive when he is glorified. The thirst of Jesus it's not just physical, heartbreaking for someone hanging on a cross. It is the thirst for a God who loved the world so much that He gave His unique Son. It is the desire for our salvation. Jesus thirsts to give us what provides, He desires to offer us what we desire: to be like God, to have His own life. "A vase" is John's only point where the term vase is used. This "vase" that lies recalls the stone hydrias at the wedding at Cana (2,6) and the one abandoned by the Samaritan woman at the well. The wine is a symbol of love and full life. Vinegar is wine gone bad. If wine was missing at Cana, this vase is full of vinegar. To the lack of love corresponds the fullness of hate. Man is a vase always full or empty, of hate or love. This vase is the cup that the Father gave Him to drink, the cup that the brothers offer Him (18,11): for Him it overflows with fury and anger, for us with salvation (Ps 75, 9- 116,13). If the vase is the world, "full" of vinegar, each of us is a sponge, in turn "full" of the same vinegar. To Jesus is presented the fullness of our evil. The gesture of giving Him vinegar - it is not said who is doing it - could indicate pity. Vinegar is a thirst-quenching drink. However, the context, with the terms thirst and vinegar, recalls Psalm 69, 22 , already quoted about the love that will devour His Body, the object of unmotivated hatred. The gesture therefore means the offering of hate and death to Him who gives love and life. "They put it to his mouth." Here too, it is not said who is offering it. On purpose, because we are all and everyone.
"It has been accomplished" - It is the last Word of Jesus who, having given the robes to the soldiers and entrusted the disciple to the Mother and this one to the disciple, has just drunk our vinegar. Thus His mission is fulfilled. By showing the Glory of Extreme Love, He gives us the Spirit, whom we now see and know in Him. Is John really the "Spiritual Gospel" the Good News that the Spirit, Life of God, is communicated to men. With His death, Jesus does not come to the end, but to the aim of His existence. After the Cross, the seventh day begins, when God, having completed creation, finally rests from His labour (Gen 2:2). The Son of Man is begotten into heaven, at His feet is born the new humanity of God's children. Jesus, as He returns to the Father with our flesh, gives His Spirit to every flesh, which makes us His brethren. What was accomplished on Golgotha, remains always at our disposal in the Eucharistic Memorial, permanent gift of His Flesh and Blood, His Body and His Spirit. Jesus, as an active protagonist, consciously lives His death and directs the final moment of His passage from this world to the Father. As He left to His enemies His clothes and tunic, He leaves to the disciple - and in Him to all - the Mother and the Spirit, the Blood and the Water. At the end, instead of the cry of abandonment (Sl 22:2) or of entrustment (Sl 31:6), there is the announcement: "It has been accomplished". The suffering Messiah in John is presented explicitly as the King of Glory: the Crucified One is victorious. The departure of Jesus, culminating in the gift of the Spirit, is under the sign of fulfillment. Everything is delivered and welcomed. At the beginning there is the awareness that everything is fulfilled (28a), at the end the Word that reveals it to all (30a) and in the midst the consideration of the evangelist who declares the fulfillment of Scripture (28b). "After this" all things are already accomplished as it regards Jesus. He lived Love to perfection, even in death. In fact, following the Father's command, He laid down His life in favor of His brethren (10:18); then, by consigning the Mother to the disciple and the Mother to the disciple, He gave mortals the reciprocity of love. More He cannot give us: He gave us God Himself, who is the reciprocal Love between Father and Son. This is everything and, outside of this, there is nothing. The hour of glory, towards which His life was tending, has come. The new creation is fulfilled: He Himself is the new creature, the Son who loves Father and brethren with the same unique love.
FAUSTI - Jesus does not suffer the Passion. He is its protagonist, conscious and free ( 13,1-3).
RispondiEliminaFirst he knows that everything is accomplished, then He says it and finally He does it.
His Word precedes the fact: "the Word" does what it says and returns to the One who sent it not without having accomplished what it was sent for (Is 55:11).
Thirst, absolute need, even more than hunger, is the desire for water, for life.
God, being perfectly loving and loved, is the desire to love.
The fulfillment of Scripture flows from this thirst of His.
For itself the expression is not a biblical quotation. Many Psalms are about our thirst for God (42:2-63:2); here, however, it is about God's thirst for us, the source of our thirst for Him. This thirst is therefore to be read first of all in the light of the first visit to the Temple, identified with the Body of the Dead and Risen Jesus, devoured by the fire of that house of the Father which are the brothers and sisters. (2:13) : it is thirst to give the Spirit, who remembers when Jesus, tired and sitting on the well, asks for a drink - it was the sixth hour!- (4,6) and promises to the Samaritan living water ( 4, 10-14). This thirst is then to be read in the light of the world's gratuitous hatred against Him which is gratuitous Love. Thirst also recalls Jesus' cry in the temple on the last day, the great day of the feast: "Whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his heart" (7:37).
This river of living water is the Spirit that believers in Him will receive when He will glorifieded.
This thirst desires to be read in the light of the world's gratuitous hatred against Him which is gratuitous love. Thirst also recalls Jesus' cry in the temple on the last day, the great day of the feast: "Whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his bosom" (7:37).
This river of living water is the Spirit that believers in him will receive when he is glorified.
The thirst of Jesus
it's not just physical, heartbreaking for someone hanging on a cross.
It is the thirst for a God who loved the world so much that He gave His unique Son. It is the desire for our salvation. Jesus thirsts to give us what provides, He desires to offer us what we desire: to be like God, to have His own life.
"A vase" is John's only point where the term vase is used. This "vase" that lies recalls the stone hydrias at the wedding at Cana (2,6) and the one abandoned by the Samaritan woman at the well.
The wine is a symbol of love and full life. Vinegar is wine gone bad.
If wine was missing at Cana, this vase is full of vinegar.
To the lack of love corresponds the fullness of hate.
Man is a vase always full or empty, of hate or love. This vase is the cup that the Father gave Him to drink, the cup that the brothers offer Him (18,11): for Him it overflows with fury and anger, for us with salvation (Ps 75, 9- 116,13). If the vase is the world, "full" of vinegar, each of us is a sponge, in turn "full" of the same vinegar.
To Jesus is presented the fullness of our evil.
The gesture of giving Him vinegar - it is not said who is doing it - could indicate pity. Vinegar is a thirst-quenching drink.
However, the context, with the terms thirst and vinegar, recalls Psalm 69, 22 , already quoted about the love that will devour His Body, the object of unmotivated hatred.
The gesture therefore means the offering of hate and death to Him who gives love and life.
"They put it to his mouth." Here too, it is not said who is offering it.
On purpose, because we are all and everyone.
"It has been accomplished" - It is the last Word of Jesus who, having given the robes to the soldiers and entrusted the disciple to the Mother and this one to the disciple, has just drunk our vinegar.
RispondiEliminaThus His mission is fulfilled. By showing the Glory of Extreme Love, He gives us the Spirit, whom we now see and know in Him. Is John really the "Spiritual Gospel" the Good News that the Spirit, Life of God, is communicated to men.
With His death, Jesus does not come to the end, but to the aim of His existence.
After the Cross, the seventh day begins, when God, having completed creation, finally rests from His labour (Gen 2:2).
The Son of Man is begotten into heaven, at His feet is born the new humanity of God's children.
Jesus, as He returns to the Father with our flesh, gives His Spirit to every flesh, which makes us His brethren. What was accomplished on Golgotha, remains always at our disposal in the Eucharistic Memorial, permanent gift of His Flesh and Blood, His Body and His Spirit.
Jesus, as an active protagonist, consciously lives His death and directs the final moment of His passage from this world to the Father. As He left to His enemies His clothes and tunic, He leaves to the disciple - and in Him to all - the Mother and the Spirit, the Blood and the Water.
At the end, instead of the cry of abandonment (Sl 22:2) or of entrustment (Sl 31:6), there is the announcement: "It has been accomplished". The suffering Messiah in John is presented explicitly as the King of Glory: the Crucified One is victorious. The departure of Jesus, culminating in the gift of the Spirit, is under the sign of fulfillment.
Everything is delivered and welcomed.
At the beginning there is the awareness that everything is fulfilled (28a), at the end the Word that reveals it to all (30a) and in the midst the consideration of the evangelist who declares the fulfillment of Scripture (28b).
"After this" all things are already accomplished as it regards Jesus. He lived Love to perfection, even in death. In fact, following the Father's command, He laid down His life in favor of His brethren (10:18); then, by consigning the Mother to the disciple and the Mother to the disciple, He gave mortals the reciprocity of love. More He cannot give us: He gave us God Himself, who is the reciprocal Love between Father and Son. This is everything and, outside of this, there is nothing.
The hour of glory, towards which His life was tending, has come. The new creation is fulfilled: He Himself is the new creature, the Son who loves Father and brethren with the same unique love.