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GOSPEL POWER - MARCH 26, 2021 FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER - MARCH 26, 2021 FRIDAY
Gospel: Jn 10:31-42
The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” The 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.” Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ — and the scripture cannot be annulled — can 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’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But 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.” Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there
REFLECTION
Today, we need doers more than talkers, and we can appreciate talkers only if they are also doers. But strangely, in the Gospel, the Jews ignore the good works of Jesus because they stop short at his words. They fail to see that his words and works validate each other. In resisting the words, they close themselves off from the WORD through whom God accomplished his creative work at the beginning of time and will now bring about the new creation. Because the Jews refuse Jesus’ revelation of his divine origin and oneness with God, they fail to hear the good news that God is drawing them into the divine sphere, by making them his children through the only-begotten Son who will emancipate them from slavery to sin. Violence is their response to the revelation. Little do they know that God’s saving will cannot be stopped by violence but will turn their violence into a means to demonstrate his love and realize what Jesus has revealed to them.
Lord Jesus, love is your only response to human resistance and violence. May your unconquerable love conquer us all in the end. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER - MARCH 26, 2021 FRIDAY
Gospel: Jn 10:31-42
The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” The 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.” Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ — and the scripture cannot be annulled — can 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’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But 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.” Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there
REFLECTION
Today, we need doers more than talkers, and we can appreciate talkers only if they are also doers. But strangely, in the Gospel, the Jews ignore the good works of Jesus because they stop short at his words. They fail to see that his words and works validate each other. In resisting the words, they close themselves off from the WORD through whom God accomplished his creative work at the beginning of time and will now bring about the new creation. Because the Jews refuse Jesus’ revelation of his divine origin and oneness with God, they fail to hear the good news that God is drawing them into the divine sphere, by making them his children through the only-begotten Son who will emancipate them from slavery to sin. Violence is their response to the revelation. Little do they know that God’s saving will cannot be stopped by violence but will turn their violence into a means to demonstrate his love and realize what Jesus has revealed to them.
Lord Jesus, love is your only response to human resistance and violence. May your unconquerable love conquer us all in the end. Amen.