Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: JOHN 7: 40-53

Each one had a different experience of Jesus. As their experience was so also was their interpretation of him. Not only their interpretation of him but also their identification of him depended on their experience. Some experienced him as a prophet, others as Messiah but not according to the scriptures etc.

Division among them was probably like that of the story of the tower of Babel. They were trying to know God (here they were trying to know Jesus). In Genesis God confused them with their language and here with their understanding. Anything regarding God should be of revelation.

தங்கள் அனுபவத்தை வைத்து இயேசுவை புரிந்துகொள்ளுதல் கடினமானது. அது தவறான புரிதலாகக்கூட இருக்கலாம். ~பாபேல்| கோபுரம் கட்டும்போது ஏற்பட்ட குழப்பம் போல் இப்போது இயேசுவைக் குறித்து மக்களிடையே பிளவு ஏற்பட்டது. கடவுளைப்பற்றிய சரியான புரிதல் இறைவெளிப்பாட்டில்தான் உள்ளது.

GOSPEL READING: JOHN 7:1-2,10,25-30

To know God is the goal of every human being. (For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts. – Hosea 6:6). Knowledge of God is the experience of God. (I am the LORD, your God, since the land of Egypt; You know no God besides me, and there is no savior but me Hosea 13:4).

Jesus knows God and this knowledge is seen in his belonging to him; in finding God as the source of his life. This knowledge of God is further assured in the commission of God. God has given Jesus a mission. To acknowledge that God is the source and God has a mission is the knowledge which Jesus proposes in this passage.

கடவுளைப்பற்றிய அறிவே சிறந்தது, அடித்தளமானது, மனிதத்தின் குறிக்கோளும் அதுவே. இந்த அறிவைக் கொண்டவன் தான் கடவுளிடமிருந்து வருவதை ஏற்றுக்கொள்வான், கடவுள்தான் பணித்தார் என்பதை உணர்ந்து செயல்படுவான்.