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00:00Hey brothers, how's it going? How did you feel about this break?
00:26Were they able to think of that phrase from the scripture that identifies them?
00:33I personally really like John 1515.
00:37I have called them friends and more than my favorite verse, it is a verse that identifies me because of my experiences, my encounter with the Lord, etc.
00:47Thus, each person must find a passage of scripture that resonates with them.
00:53Okay, let's go back to this week, to this play where day after day, well, it's like the scene, it's the act.
01:03So let's move forward a little bit in this passage of the Gospel.
01:08We're going to get to verse 29.
01:09We are now on the second day of this week of the Incarnate Logos.
01:15We're already in this second act, as I mentioned a little while ago.
01:22On this second day, John the Baptist meets Christ, who is coming towards him.
01:28On the first day, Christ did not appear.
01:30This coming of the Logos, and because it says so, is the Incarnate Logos who comes to John.
01:40That's what the prologue already told us.
01:45And it is the same testimony that John the Baptist gave in the verses relating to him in the prologue.
01:53Verses 6 through 8 on one side, and on the other side, verse 15.
01:57Let's then read this second day to break down this testimony of John the Baptist.
02:06This second day, this second testimony.
02:09Let's read verses 29 through 32.
02:14Still in this chapter 1 of John.
02:17Says,
02:17The next day, John saw Jesus approaching him and said,
02:24Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
02:29This is the one I was referring to when I said, after me comes a man who is superior to me, because he existed before me.
02:37I didn't even know him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might reveal himself to the people of Israel.
02:45And the narrative continues, Juan declared,
02:49See the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove and remain upon him.
02:54I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me,
03:00The one upon whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
03:09I have seen him, and that is why I testify that this is the Son of God.
03:18We see that Jesus was pre-existent to John, something that had already been mentioned in the prologue.
03:27But now this logos is said to be the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and upon whom the Holy Spirit descended.
03:37This had already been promised to Juan.
03:41He carried this as a divine promise.
03:45The one who sent John the Baptist made this promise to him.
03:49And who sent John the Baptist?
03:51Let us remember that the prologue, verse 6, says,
03:56There was a man sent by God whose name was John.
03:59So who sent John the Baptist to baptize?
04:02God himself.
04:03And God Himself made this promise to John the Baptist that someone would come to baptize with the Holy Spirit.
04:13Now, here we have to ask ourselves,
04:18When was the moment when John recognized Jesus as the one who came to baptize with the Holy Spirit?
04:28Finally, as promised, the promise that someone had to come to baptize us with the Holy Spirit,
04:37When was this fulfillment of the promise?
04:41When does John the Baptist recognize that the promise has arrived?
04:47That is at the moment of Christ's baptism.
04:52That is when John sees the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove,
04:58descends upon Jesus, upon Christ, his cousin, his relative.
05:03But now he recognizes the promise in him.
05:06He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
05:09That moment is the very moment of a personal revelation that John the Baptist receives.
05:19But we can continue to ask ourselves, and in fact that's the work we're doing here,
05:26to question Scripture, to question the Bible, to question the Gospel.
05:31We keep asking ourselves, why doesn't John, the evangelist, talk about this moment?
05:37Why does John, in his gospel, not narrate the ceremony of Christ's baptism?
05:43It's in Matthew, it's in Mark, it's in Luke,
05:48But the site of Christ's baptism is not in San Juan.
05:54It is because, in the fourth gospel,
05:58The revelation of the Holy Spirit is made progressively.
06:02For this reason, John decides to present the baptism of Christ to us in a very discreet way.
06:10Not directly, but through the testimony of John the Baptist.
06:15It is he, it is he, it is Jesus, the fulfillment of the promise,
06:19the fulfillment of the promise that someone will come to baptize with the Holy Spirit.
06:25And as I said, why doesn't the evangelist John do it?
06:28It is because the revelation of the Holy Spirit is something very progressive.
06:34For example, in chapter 7 of this Gospel of John,
06:38at the time of a Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles,
06:42Jesus announces the coming of the Holy Spirit.
06:46But it is only like a moment glimpsed from afar.
06:51And when will the great revelation of the Holy Spirit take place?
06:54It will be in the Paschal Mystery of Christ.
06:57And John, the evangelist, mentions it in a very specific way,
07:02very great, as the Holy Spirit reveals himself in the paschal mystery of Christ.
07:07We will see it throughout these classes.
07:11But if we return to the setting of this second day,
07:15The Lamb comes to John the Baptist.
07:19In fact, it passes by and leaves.
07:21The second day is over.
07:24Our second scene of this play is over.
07:29Yes, the Lamb arrived, passed by,
07:32and John the Baptist only gave his testimony.
07:36And then, we continued our reading,
07:39We continue as spectators of this play,
07:42and we come to verse 35,
07:45which begins by saying the next day.
07:49It is the fact of another beginning,
07:53from another day,
07:54in which John the Baptist will be there,
07:57And this time Jesus is going to pass by.
08:01But this time,
08:03John the Baptist will be with two of his disciples.
08:06Again,
08:08John the Baptist will designate Jesus as the Lamb of God.
08:13This name,
08:15Lamb of God,
08:16It's difficult to see the deeper meaning.
08:19In fact,
08:20It is a unique expression in the Bible.
08:24Eye,
08:24What do I mean by this?
08:25The Lamb of God was never mentioned.
08:29in the Old Testament.
08:30It is true that the Lamb for the Passover Sacrifice was mentioned,
08:35on the night of the Exodus from Egypt,
08:37where the Israelites were to eat this Lamb for dinner,
08:42and with the blood they had to stain their doors
08:46so that the Angel of Death does not pass.
08:49Other prescribed sacrifices also came,
08:52where they had to sacrifice lambs,
08:54But the Lamb of God was never mentioned.
08:57After,
08:59later,
09:00in the revelation,
09:02in Isaiah,
09:03in the songs of the suffering servant that Isaiah gives us,
09:08It is compared to the suffering server
09:11with the Lamb that is led to the slaughter.
09:14But it is never said that this servant is the Lamb of God.
09:20Returning then to John the Baptist,
09:23This is a great lesson.
09:25John the Baptist reveals to us
09:27that the Messiah,
09:30Christ,
09:31is Lamb
09:32that God sends us.
09:36As if sent from God,
09:38this Lamb
09:39its mission
09:41to remove the sin from the world.
09:45And here,
09:46We are invited
09:47let's see
09:48how the Gospel of John
09:50It takes symbols from the Old Testament,
09:53but in Christ
09:55It gives them a new symbolism.
09:58Or to put it another way,
10:00John takes ancient symbols,
10:02but in a new way.
10:04It gives them a new meaning.
10:05What is this new meaning?
10:07who in Christ
10:08Everything takes on its final meaning.
10:12It is surprising that on this second day,
10:16Despite the similarities,
10:18John does not say that he is the Lamb
10:21that takes away the sin of the world.
10:22On this second day,
10:25It is enough for John the Baptist to say,
10:27He is the Lamb of God.
10:30On this second day,
10:33It can be said that Juan's audience
10:35It's very different.
10:37Those who listen to Juan
10:38They are no longer the priests
10:40nor the Levites
10:42who come from Jerusalem.
10:44Who are they now?
10:46They are the two disciples.
10:49And the text makes a difference.
10:52that helps us see
10:53this dynamism of the text itself.
10:57And this is where I help them
10:59Or I invite you to watch it
11:01like a play.
11:03Dynamic things,
11:04characters come,
11:05characters go,
11:07characters who enter the scene,
11:08characters that appear.
11:10On this third day,
11:12John the Baptist tells us,
11:13who is with his disciples,
11:17But Jesus passes by.
11:20Juan is in a static position,
11:24while Jesus is on the move.
11:29And the two disciples
11:30who listen to John the Baptist
11:32They will mark the transition.
11:36In other words, thanks to them,
11:38the movement of the scene
11:39It is done wonderfully well.
11:41The two disciples step outside themselves
11:44to follow the Lamb
11:45wherever he goes.
11:48They're already on the move.
11:51And this will be the beginning
11:53of the apostolic life
11:54which is never static.
11:56We already know here
11:58that the entire Gospel,
12:00The four Gospels mark it,
12:02but in a special way,
12:04Juan,
12:05in his Gospel,
12:06They indicate that Jesus
12:07It's always on the move.
12:09We can think of the phrases of
12:11I have to go
12:13to the lost sheep
12:14of the people of Israel
12:15or Jesus withdrew
12:17for such a city,
12:18Jesus came to such and such another place.
12:20We understand that the Christian life
12:22She is a missionary,
12:25It's in motion.
12:26And of course
12:28as followers of Christ,
12:31as we are his disciples,
12:33We understand why
12:34Pope Francis
12:35It tells us about a church
12:37on the way out,
12:38of a church that is always on the move
12:40to go to the most remote ones,
12:42to carry the message of Christ
12:43to the most remote.
12:47These two disciples
12:48who follow the Lamb,
12:50What are they going to do?
12:52What are they going to cause?
12:53It's because the Lamb
12:55turns around,
12:57I mean,
12:57they return to them
12:58who have been following him
12:59and he's going to ask them
13:02What are they looking for?
13:03To which
13:04They respond
13:05with another question,
13:07Rabbi,
13:07Where do you live?
13:09And the Lamb,
13:10Jesus,
13:11reply,
13:11come
13:12And you will see it.
13:14And this
13:15will be
13:16another common thread
13:17of everything
13:18the Gospel of John.
13:20This dialogue
13:21of questions
13:22in which for the first time
13:23Jesus speaks
13:24in the Gospel.
13:26Notice how
13:27John the Evangelist
13:28wants to give
13:30as the first word
13:31a question
13:33of Jesus.
13:35Jesus had already appeared
13:36one day
13:37before,
13:38But he hadn't said anything,
13:40He remained silent.
13:42Here,
13:43already on this second day,
13:44in contrast to these
13:45two characters,
13:47Jesus tells them
13:48What are they looking for?
13:49then comes
13:51this dialogue
13:52of this invitation
13:53come and see
13:55the place of my life,
13:57the place of my rest.
13:58Which is it?
13:59It is the breast
14:01of the Father.
14:02The Logos
14:03who becomes a Lamb
14:04blackberry
14:05in the bosom
14:06of the Father.
14:07He had told us
14:07the prologue
14:08in verse 18.
14:10And
14:11What does Jesus want?
14:13He wants
14:13make us
14:14enter
14:14in this dwelling.
14:16He wants
14:16that we see
14:17this dwelling.
14:19AND
14:19Let's see,
14:21Let's see
14:22how much
14:22trust
14:23Jesus does
14:24enter
14:24these two
14:25unknown
14:26to his house,
14:27to his dwelling.
14:30Normally,
14:30one takes
14:31a bit
14:32of time
14:32to go
14:34a stranger
14:35home.
14:36Jesus already
14:36they opened
14:37the doors
14:37from his house.
14:39And of course
14:39that not only
14:41It's a question
14:41from home,
14:42of a dwelling
14:43physics,
14:44but it is a place
14:45spiritual.
14:46It's the place
14:47where he lives
14:48Jesus,
14:48is the place
14:49where He rests.
14:50Where?
14:51Within
14:52from the Father,
14:53in the heart
14:53of his Father.
14:55It is there
14:56the place
14:56of the dwelling
14:57of Jesus
14:58and that's where
15:00the disciples
15:01You are invited
15:01to enter.
15:03Juan,
15:04the evangelist,
15:05discerns
15:06in this mystery
15:07of the dwelling
15:08of the Lamb
15:09How far
15:11this meeting
15:12It marks life.
15:15and how
15:15here
15:16to Juan
15:17He changed
15:18his life
15:18fundamentally.
15:20At the moment
15:21which is his calling
15:22particular,
15:23particular
15:25because it is
15:26different
15:26of the others
15:27calls
15:28from Juan
15:28in the synoptic texts,
15:30but here
15:31in the gospel
15:32from Juan,
15:33John himself,
15:34who is the disciple
15:34that was there
15:35Listening to Juan
15:36Baptist,
15:37brand
15:38this experience
15:39like the one that
15:40It changed his life.
15:41It's an experience
15:42of faith
15:43foundational.
15:45since it still
15:46after
15:4870 years
15:49or more,
15:50when John
15:51will write
15:52his gospel,
15:53now as an old man,
15:54not like the young man anymore
15:55which followed
15:56to Jesus,
15:58It will be remembered
15:58of a detail.
16:00Which?
16:01That they were
16:014 pm.
16:03In verse 39,
16:05Juan,
16:05the evangelist,
16:06brand that
16:06this moment
16:08It went too far
16:09at 4 pm
16:10and not only
16:11It was at 4,
16:12that's when they stayed
16:13all day.
16:14It started at 4,
16:15but they stayed
16:16with the
16:16all day.
16:18Says
16:18verse 39,
16:21Juan,
16:21the evangelist,
16:22will live
16:23with the lamb
16:24And on the other hand,
16:26Andrew,
16:27that had the same
16:28experience
16:28to see
16:29where you live
16:30the lamb,
16:31is going to invite
16:31to Peter
16:32to have
16:33the same experience,
16:35the meeting
16:35with Jesus.
16:37And here
16:37we must
16:39to enter
16:40in this spirituality
16:41Johannic,
16:42of living
16:43with the lamb,
16:45always
16:45remember
16:46of our prayer
16:46this question
16:47fundamental.
16:48When we are
16:49distracted
16:49in the prayer
16:50and not only that
16:50distracted
16:51because the mind
16:52we are thinking
16:53in other things,
16:54but because
16:54actually
16:56we are in a
16:57spiritual dryness,
16:58There are other things
16:59that have filled us
17:00the heart,
17:01come to prayer
17:02with this question,
17:03Teacher,
17:04Where do you live?
17:05Teacher,
17:06teach me
17:07What is the place?
17:07of your rest,
17:09Teacher,
17:10lead me
17:10to the place
17:11of your rest
17:12and the answer
17:13that it will give us
17:13It will always be
17:14Come and see,
17:16come and have
17:17the experience.
17:19We're going to take
17:19a pause
17:20and we will continue
17:21in a moment
17:22to see
17:23this week
17:24of the Lamb.
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