The Gospel of
John enables the Faithful to experience growth in Faith through various levels
of uncertainty. As a college history
professor, I shared my degree of certainty with my students. To my amazement and delight, such sharing
enhanced, rather than damaged, my credibility.
First
Acts 5:12
Signs and wonders is key to the Book of
Glory in the Gospel of
Acts 5:13
In none of the others, of the others, is hoi polloi in English. This means that there were the Eleven apostles and the hoi polloi, the rest of us.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 (1)
The Church makes this psalm available for funerals.[3]
Psalm 118:14
Isaiah 12:2
imitates Psalm 118:14 in thanksgiving for deliverance from Exile. The Lectionary does not use Isaiah
12:2. Deliverance from all evil is that
for which the Faithful can be grateful.
Psalm 118:22
Psalm 118:22, the stone, which the builders rejected, has become the corner stone shows confusion, distraction, and lack of certainty in the Faithful. John shows the Faithful how to deal with such confusion, distraction, and lack of certainty. Contrary to the rules of standard grammar, the Lectionary omits a comma before which,
Second
Rev 1:9—11:19
Scholars say that the way to read Revelation is as a series of stage productions or acts. The reader should draw up pictures fitting the words, as each scene changes.
Revelation 1:9a
I,
Revelation 1:9b
The distress, the kingdom, and the endurance in the Greek only has one the. The Greek means that distress, kingdom, and endurance are the three themes of the Gospel, rolled into one outlook.
Revelation 1:10
I was caught up in the spirit means that
Revelation 1:13 and 17
I am alive forever and ever, means that
the risen
Alleluia:
Gospel:
The Fourth Gospel conceives of this sort of recognition as something that comes through the witness of the Holy Spirit and a spiritual encounter with the risen Lord. But the author also helps to recreate the experience of encountering Jesus and the journey of faith for readers by subjecting them to the initial confusion experienced by the first disciples and continually bringing them to new ways of seeing, new methods of interpretation so that they might gain a clearer understanding of what is not of this world. The author does so by creating interpretive difficulties, deliberately setting up misunderstandings, so that readers might learn how to correct them in light of the truth presented in Jesus, and by creating characters whose interpretive errors and corrections not only show the way but bring readers along with them. Through their own errors and weaknesses along with their persistence and subsequent correction, Mary Magdalene, Thomas, and the Beloved Disciple all contribute to this scheme and further the author’s purpose that readers may believe that Jesus is the Christ and that by believing they may have life in his name.
The Gospels differ over when the Resurrection occurred, on the first day of the week, or on the third day. That first day of the week is a formula preferred by the Aramaic-speaking Church, in contrast to the Greek-speaking Church, which preferred on the third day.
In contrast to how some read
Uses the word signs to indicate this section of the Gospel is the Book of Signs. This means that John is organizing his Gospel according to the Book of Wisdom. Signs reflect who God is.
Debbie Hunn, “Who Are `They’ in John 8:33?”[14]
The purpose of the Gospel of John is
to enable the Faithful to believe that
For more on sources see the Appendix file. Personal Notes are on the web site at www.western-civilization.com/CBQ/Personal%20Notes.
[1] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 2003) 11.
[2] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2 (April 1978) 208.
[3] N.a., International Commission on English in the Liturgy: A Joint Commission of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences, The Roman Ritual: Revised by Decree of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and published by Authority of Pope Paul IV: Order of Christian Funerals: Including Appendix 2: Cremation: Approved for use in the Dioceses of the United States of America by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and Confirmed by the Apostolic See (New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1998) 275.
[4] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2002) 471
and 472.
[5] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3 (July 2005) 437.
[6] Theological Studies,
Vol. 67, No. 4 (December 2006) 924.
[7]
[8] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3 (April 1967) 461 as found at http://63.136.1.22/pls/eli/ashow?ishid=n0008-7912_029_03&lcookie=2792486&npage=450-467 070115.
[9] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 1983) 205
ff.
[10] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 2 (April 2005) 284-302.
The quotation is on page 302.
[11] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4 (October 1986) 645.
[12] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 1988) 450.
[13] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 1983) 205
ff.
[14] the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (July 2004) 394.
[15] Theological Studies, 67, No. 3 (September 2006) 671.