St. John has a way of making seeming throw away asides serve as commentary on the event described. For example, when Judas leaves the table at the Last Supper on his way to betrayal St. John writes. “It was night” (John 13:30). He is not pointing out the time of day but the state of Judas’ soul. In John 7 there is controversy over the nature of Jesus. The crowd looks on him in one way. The scholars look on him in another. The guards say, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.” The Pharisees denounce him. Nicodemus defends him. St. John’s commentary in the midst of the controversy: Then each went to his own house. Instead of getting together and seeking to discern what each one’s experience of Jesus meant, they went their own way, hardened their own hearts, sure that they were right and not willing to listen to another opinion. St. John suggests it is only together that we come to know Jesus truly.
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By Church Staff
