I AM the Bread From Heaven
John 6:35-40 Bread is the most essential for survival and is available for everyone whether one is rich or poor. Jesus identifies himself as this bread and says “I AM the bread of life”, i.e he who created everything and thus is over everything, makes himself as small, simple and little as the humble bread […]
Bread from Heaven: The Jews Ask for a Sign
John 6:30-35 The Peace that passes all understanding is to do with who we are and what we are called to be. When we accept both and understand our own shortcomings with regards to them, then we will truly be on our way to Peace Everlasting in God’s Presence. But the in-between time, between knowing […]
Jesus The Bread From Heaven
John 6:22-29 Crowds continue to follow Jesus wherever he went, not to understand the spiritual truth but to see signs and wonders. Just the previous day thousands were fed with bread and fish which were multiplied from five loaves of barley and two fish, where each one had their fill just like the Israelites who […]
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
Luke 24:35-48 Jesus is Alive! He is Risen! Alleluia! Jesus is Alive and has appeared to Simon! According to Luke, Simon is the first of the remaining ten disciples to have an encounter with the risen Jesus. An indication perhaps of Peter’s future role as a leader of Jesus’ Church. The remaining disciples have yet […]
Jesus Walks On Water
John 6: 16-21 Today’s Gospel talks about Jesus walking on water. This shows Jesus is in complete control of nature. After feeding 5000 people Jesus left the disciples and went to a lonely place, to pray. This was part of his daily routine. The Disciples were traveling to another side of the Sea of Galilee […]
Jesus Feeds a Crowd of Five Thousand
John 6: 1-15 During his short ministry of 3 years, Jesus went about healing the sick, bringing the dead back to life, and tirelessly preaching the Word of God and converting the hearts of the people. The People followed him to see more and experience more. In today’s passage Jesus does another miracle of making the people share […]
Nicodemus and Jesus: Obedience to the Son of God and Eternal Life
John 3: 31-36 Jesus gives us the wholeness of life, and generously specifically blesses us with the gift of discernment, that we may listen and understand the Holy Spirit communicating to our minds. Thus allowing us to may take action through our physical bodies. Jesus does things this way so that we may not do […]
Nicodemus and Jesus: God’s abundant Love
John 3: 16-21 God is Love and he has poured out his abundant love for us in and through Jesus. And what is significant is this, that he did all this while we were still sinners. We see this in Jesus’ self-sacrifice for us. It is God’s desire that none of his children should perish […]
Nicodemus and Jesus: The Son of Man
John 3: 7b-15 I love John Chapter 3, over the years I have collected insights to it. Here Jesus is specifically pointing out to Nicodemus that one needs to be transformed by the Holy Spirit, and we cannot be presumptuous that we know how God works or even the Holy Spirit. We need to cultivate […]
Nicodemus Visits Jesus
John 3:1-8 The Gospel of John has the teachings of Jesus on a higher level of understanding than the synoptic Gospels, at times not very easy for everyone to understand. In this passage Jesus is engaged in a conversation with Nicodemus, a sympathetic unbelieving Pharisee, a renowned Jewish teacher and probably belonging to a high […]