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March 27, 2012 is the Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. The reading is from Gospel of John 8:21-30
He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”
So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”
He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.”
So they said to him, “Who are you?”
Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.”
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said (to them), “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
In today’s gospel reading Jesus once again stresses that he is his Father’s Ambassador – God’s Messiah; and the Father whose ambassador he is is with him.
In today’s gospel reading
He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” (John 8:21)
is similar to these two following verses, also in John,
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“You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. (John 8:23)
bear similarity to the following three verses, also in John,
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That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” (John 8:24)
Parallels can be found in the following 3 verses in the Old Testament:
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So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. (John 8:25)
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I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” (John 8:26)
is an abbreviated form of the following passage:
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