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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 8, 2022 - FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 8, 2022 - FRIDAY
5th Week of Lent
Gospel: Jn 10:31-42
31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.” 34Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ – and the scripture cannot be annulled – 36can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.
Today’s Gospel shows Jesus caught up in the tension of holding heaven and earth together, for he belongs to both spheres. He comes from above as God’s ultimate revealer. But as a human being, he also reveals to us the truth about ourselves — our divine essence. As the only begotten Son, he opens the way for us to be God’s children too, sharers of the divine life. In fulfilling this mission among his own people, Jesus finds stubborn resistance that leads to hostility and violence. We begin to see with greater clarity what the evangelist means in the prologue: “He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.” Jesus leaves the dangerous zone of Judea temporarily because his hour has not yet come. The stage is now set for the unfolding of the events of Holy Week.
Lord Jesus, out of the evil of violence, God’s love will draw the ultimate good, which is our salvation. Transform us as we ponder this mystery. Amen
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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 8, 2022 - FRIDAY
5th Week of Lent
Gospel: Jn 10:31-42
31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.” 34Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ – and the scripture cannot be annulled – 36can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. 40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.
Today’s Gospel shows Jesus caught up in the tension of holding heaven and earth together, for he belongs to both spheres. He comes from above as God’s ultimate revealer. But as a human being, he also reveals to us the truth about ourselves — our divine essence. As the only begotten Son, he opens the way for us to be God’s children too, sharers of the divine life. In fulfilling this mission among his own people, Jesus finds stubborn resistance that leads to hostility and violence. We begin to see with greater clarity what the evangelist means in the prologue: “He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.” Jesus leaves the dangerous zone of Judea temporarily because his hour has not yet come. The stage is now set for the unfolding of the events of Holy Week.
Lord Jesus, out of the evil of violence, God’s love will draw the ultimate good, which is our salvation. Transform us as we ponder this mystery. Amen