GOSPEL READING: JOHN 6:22-29
Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
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The crowd looked for Jesus. The crowd had seen Jesus performing miracles and they had listened to him and so they went after him. Jesus realized that the crowd was not interested in following him or believing in him as the one sent by the Father. They went to him because their material needs were satisfied by him.
Jesus was trying to convince them that the material satisfactions were only signs. They were not end in themselves. They were pointing out to something different or something immaterial. The material world itself is a sign and everything that happens in the world is a sign for a believer; a sign for the other world, a sign of God presence and God’s activities and the response of man is only to believe.
நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: யோவான் 6:22-29
நீங்கள் அரும் அடையாளங்களைக் கண்டதால் அல்ல, மாறாக, அப்பங்களை வயிறார உண்டதால்தான் என்னைத் தேடுகிறீர்கள் என உறுதியாக உங்களுக்குச் சொல்கிறேன்.
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உடல் அல்லது உலகு சார்ந்த நிகழ்வுகள் அனைத்துமே அடையாளங்கள். நம்பிக்கை உள்ளவன் படைப்பையும் படைப்பு சார்ந்த நிகழ்வுகளையும் அடையாளங்களாகக் காண்கிறான். இவை அனைத்தும் மறுஉலகுக்கும் அங்கு நிகழ்பவைகளுக்கும் அடையாளங்களே.
