Today's gospel, Sat 10 May
“You have the words of eternal life."
John 6: 60-69
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But among you there are some who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.”
Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Thought for the day
Today's gospel brings us right back to the question of who we look to in life. In this reading we see clearly the humanity of Jesus when he expresses to his friends his vulnerability in the desire that they remain with him and not abandon him, asking them, “Do you also wish to go away?”
For us, when we develop over time a relationship of love and trust with Jesus, we feel as Peter did when he a replies to Jesus with the rhetorical question, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life."
The beginning of John's Gospel
from one of the oldest English translations of the Gospels,
made in the 1300s by John Wycliffe.
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