The context of the Gospel of John we read this Sunday is the farewell speech after dinner. In Chapter 13 the center is Jesus. In this (14) the center is the Father (25 times it appears). The atmosphere is of concern. Treason Judas, the announcement of Peter's denial, the announcement of the game. Everything is disturbing. Justified the invitation for calm and trust. The key message in this chapter is the relationship of Jesus and his disciples with the Father.
While John puts into the mouth of Jesus throughout the speech, actually thinking about Easter. What is the future discourse is already present to the writer and the reader. But this suggests that a new future that the Spirit will be performing. There is a perceived difficulty for the community to express their experience of salvation. This Easter experience is rooted in the presence lives of Jesus, the Spirit and the Father. believe in God and believe also in me. "Pisteuete eis" does not mean believing in us our sense of that word today. Would "believe in the biblical sense, that is, put your trust in ... John used this building 30 times, addressed to Jesus. Only in 12.44 and placed here as a term for God, clearly indicating the identity of the two accessions. At stake is the relationship of the disciples with God. The trust in him and trust in God are the same thing. If you really seek God, are in the right direction, because they are with him. There is no difference between adherence and commitment to God Jesus. This is the reason I have nothing to fear.
In my Father's house there are many rooms. (oikia) = home, but also in Castilian means family privacy. "Moñai pollai" = many mansions. (Moñai) is derived from (Main) = stay. Jesus means permanence in God. In verse 10 says: The Father who dwells in me does his works. Jesus is the Father, to procure a relationship with God, similar to yours. There is no difference between a purple and others. This is not a place, but the scope of God's love. At the heart of God, everyone has a place. It could also result: the family of God is all par site. All human beings are called to be part of the family (scope) of the same God. As Jesus is "the Father", so everyone can get there. The misunderstanding of Thomas, literary, give the author the opportunity to be clarified.
All language is mythical and symbolic. I go, I stay, I come back etc. can not be understood literally locally. Theological ideas are key to understanding the place of Jesus at the same time, his stay with them live. But although the truth is made from a mythical, the message remains valid for us. We just have to change its formulation. Today we would say that the goal of all is in God. This identification with God, which Jesus spoke, is that we have to discover all and live longer here. In Jesus, God has manifested God's plan for man. Now they have to let that project is done each of them.
I am the way, the truth and the life. This is one of the densest texts, referring to the reality of Jesus. The goal is the Father. Jesus is the way, but also the truth and the life. The concept of "way" presupposes an end, Fr. The concept of "truth" presupposes a content. He is content. Of the three terms, the only absolute is " Life." Because Jesus has Life, is true and path.
way I am. Jesus is a project, it traveled the path that would lead to human fulfillment. The way is love until death. The total gift of themselves make them fully and make them glow in the presence of God. But in addition to travel this way, Jesus is the way so you can cross it too. In the OT the way the law was Jesus replaced Act, no other law but his person. I'm really ie I am what I have to be myself, I am authentic. It is not logical truth, (the adequacy of a predicate to a subject), but ontological truth to be referred, not to know. It means that Jesus is fully human, authentic and real. Is what has to be a human. It is true, because the trajectory of his life is that every man has to travel. The opposite would be something you're not, be false, misleading, pure appearance, not being yourself. "I am" is the name given himself God from the bush. In John is repeated ad nauseam in the mouth of Jesus: I am. Complement can be either: door, pastor, way, life, truth. If I am identified with God am all at once.
I am life, ie the essence of my being is in power that makes what I am. Remember: "As the living Father, sent me, and I live by the Father, even so he who eats me will live because of me. "'re talking about the same Life that is God who has told him and, through it, we communicated to us. In the same way that we can not find the biological life regardless of a person who possesses it, and we can not meet a God out there apart from a being to that effect.
No comes to the Father except through me. In c. 6 he says: "No one comes to me unless the Father draws him." The two ideas are complementary. For he who is born of the Spirit, the Father is not someone far away , their presence is immediate. Become a child is to present to the Father. Identification with Jesus, the disciple does participate in the life of God.
If you come to know me at all, you will know my Father also. again reflects the "already but not yet" of the first community. Following Jesus is a constant dynamic. This is not progress in knowledge, but in the communion of love. Experiential knowledge of Jesus, the Father will manifest in the disciple. Philip asks what is a theophany as narrated in the Old Testament. Think that Jesus is a representative of God, the very presence of God. Who sees me sees the Father. How do you say, show us the Father? This complaint, put into the mouth of Jesus, Easter is a clear reflection of the disciples. In his public life and did not understand a word of what Jesus really was. Philip continues to separate God from man. Did not discover the extent of God and his love-man project. Have not learned that God is only visible in the "man." From this perspective, Jesus could say, who sees me go to my Father. And at the same time: if you loved me you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father the Father is greater than me.
The proposals that I do not propose my own account. These proposals for action. The works are the manifestation of God is in Jesus. Eye to this fact! The presence of God is Jesus is dynamic. Father exercised his creative activity through Jesus. He, from his own experience, proposed the "demands" that God asks him. Jesus through his works performed by the creative design. The criterion to find out if the Father is in Jesus will always work. What says will always have a relative value. The works are truly valid. If we are clear, we discover God in the works of Jesus in favor of men. But the manifestation of God in the works of Jesus is not your sole. God acts in and continue to act in all who follow in their footsteps. Free man is always the work of God through Jesus is either through the fans.
Whoever believes in me will do the works that I do and even greater . "These are not miracles, but the manifestation of love for man. God's work does not end with Jesus, start it and will continue forever. Jesus is talking about his experience of God and wants them to have the same experience. It seeks to discover and deploy the very life of God in every one of them. All the preaching of Jesus born of experience and invites the fullness of human experience.
Joseph A. Pagola