REFLECTIONS TODAY
In John’s Gospel, the word (ho logos) and the works (erga) of Jesus are profoundly inseparable. We have already reflected on the challenge of keeping the word of Jesus so that we will remain in him and in God the Father.
We recall that Jesus is the eternal Logos of the Father through whom the Father is made known (1:1-2, 17-18). Jesus is the Revealer of God the Father. The Father can only be revealed by someone who is intimately connected to him—by Jesus who is always in the Father’s bosom (1:18).
In today’s Gospel passage, some people want to stone Jesus not for the works he does but for emphasizing his relationship with his Father. Those people recognize that Jesus’ works are good, but they could not accept that Jesus is God’s Son.
Jesus’ works result from his intimate relationship with his Father. Have we really accepted the word of Jesus? Are we doing Jesus’ works? Do the things we do mirror our intimate relationship with God?
Gospel • John 10:31-42
The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Then they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.
Many came to him and said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” And many there began to believe in him.
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