True peace, the Spirit, and actually living
Easter 6C | John 14:23-29
The lectionary gave us an odd cut here because it doesn’t want the first part of the passage just yet — it is a little too Pentecosty. Jesus and his disciples are in the midst of the Last Supper, they’ve done the footwashing and the eating and Judas Iscariot has left. That’s all in chapter 13. Then in chapter 14, Jesus is preparing them for his departure.
It starts with the “don’t let your hearts be troubled” passage with the place and the going and the many rooms — that favorite passage we often hear at funerals. He’s talking about going away, about their knowing the way to follow, even without him. How he isn’t leaving them with nothing. Then Jesus starts talking about the Advocate — the Spirit. And with that, he says:
“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
— John 14:18-22
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