Then each went to his own house
Published Mar 21, 2026 12:05 am
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Updated Mar 20, 2026 03:58 pm
REFLECTIONS TODAY
After intense discussions about Jesus’ identity and authority, after confrontations and attempted arrests, the crowd disperses and each simply goes home.
Each person returns to his house with his questions, doubts, and wonderings about Jesus.
Our “house” is not just our physical place of residence, but also represents our inner sanctuary—that sacred space within where we encounter God.
Our interiority is an inner sanctum where we can dialogue with him in the most intimate way.
It is a place where earnest self-examination can happen. This inward journey is not just an escape from the world, but a prayerful discernment of God’s direction in our lives.
First Reading Jer 11:18-20
I knew their plot because the Lord informed me; at that time you, O Lord, showed me their doings.
Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more.”
But, you, O Lord of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!
Responsorial Psalm • Ps 7
“O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.”
Gospel • John 7:40-53
Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But others said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
So a division occurred in the crowd because of him. Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?” The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.”
So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.”
Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them, “Does our law condemn a man before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”
They answered and said to him, “You are not from Galilee also, are you?
Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” Then each went to his own house.
Source: “365 Days with the Lord 2026,” St. Paul’s, 7708 St. Paul Rd., SAV, Makati City (Phils.); Tel.: 632-895-9701; E-mail: [email protected]; Website: http://www.stpauls.ph.