Wednesday of Week 4 of Eastertide - John 12: 44-50

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

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John 12: 44-50 - 'I, the light, have come into the world.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2466 (in 'Living in the Truth') - In Jesus Christ, the whole of God's truth has been made manifest. "Full of grace and truth," he came as the "light of the world," he is the Truth. "Whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness." The disciple of Jesus continues in his word so as to know "the truth [that] will make you free" and that sanctifies. To follow Jesus is to live in "the Spirit of truth," whom the Father sends in his name and who leads "into all the truth." To his disciples Jesus teaches the unconditional love of truth: "Let what you say be simply 'Yes or No.'"

- 679 (in 'To Judge the Living and the Dead') - Christ is Lord of eternal life. Full right to pass definitive judgement on the works and hearts of men belongs to him as redeemer of the world. He "acquired" this right by his cross. the Father has given "all judgement to the Son". Yet the Son did not come to judge, but to save and to give the life he has in himself. By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love.

- 1039 (in 'The Last Judgement') - In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man's relationship with God will be laid bare (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our daily gospel exegesis, where we look at the literal sense of the
0:20.0	gospel reading from today's mass. We're continuing to look at the literal sense of the gospel reading from today's Mass.
0:22.7	We're continuing to look at the Gospel of John, and today we're looking at John chapter 12, verses 44 to 50.
0:31.1	Jesus declared publicly,
0:33.7	Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in the one who sent me.
0:40.3	And whoever sees me, sees the one who sent me.
0:44.3	I, the light, have come into the world so that whoever believes in me need not stay in the dark anymore.
0:53.3	If anyone hears my words and does not keep them faithfully,
0:57.0	it is not I who shall condemn him, since I have not come to condemn the world, but to save the world.
1:07.0	He who rejects me and refuses my words has his judge already.
1:11.8	The word itself that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day.
1:17.6	For what I have spoken does not come from myself.
1:20.9	No, what I was to say, what I had to speak, was commanded by the Father who sent me. And I know that his
1:30.3	commands mean eternal life. And therefore what the Father has told me is what I speak.
1:37.3	So what's the context here? It can be hard to keep track in the Gospel of John, particularly
1:45.5	when we think about where it's placed in the Lectionary, because it does jump around a lot.
1:50.2	Sometimes you'll hear some parts of the Gospel of John at Lent, sometimes at Advent,
1:56.3	sometimes at Easter, and there's chunks of the Gospel of John all over the place. So here we're at the end of John chapter 12 and it's the last week of Jesus' life.
2:06.6	So he's already entered into Jerusalem for Palm Sunday and for the rest of chapter 12 he's been speaking about his death and his identity.
2:15.6	And if you read what happens around the middle of John
2:18.7	chapter 12, eventually he has to leave them. He says he deliberately leaves them and goes away
2:23.8	because they're not listening to what he's trying to say. So this is probably Monday or Tuesday
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