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REFLECTIONS TODAY Here, Philip’s request to Jesus reflects a misunderstanding. Jesus has just stated that knowing him means knowing and seeing also the Father, presupposing intimate communion between Jesus and the Father and the designation of Jesus as the supreme revealer of God. Now, Philip...

REFLECTIONS TODAY The Synoptic Gospels tell us nothing of Philip, except that he is one of the Twelve. In John, however, he is given more prominence. Here, in the midst of Jesus’ solemn pronouncements during the Last Supper, he interrupts with the remark, “Master, show us the Father, and that...

REFLECTIONS TODAY The tax collector Levi is identified with, and often referred to, as Matthew, the name given in the Gospel of Matthew (9:9). At the time Jesus calls him, Levi is at the customs post, his place of work. As tax collector, he is regarded as a public sinner, despised among the Jews as...