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Readings: Acts of the Apostle 1:12-14 1 Peter 4:13-16;In our Gospel reading, time seems to have stood still. The first 12 chapters of the Gospel cover the first 33 years of Jesus’ life. Then, from the beginning of Chapter 13 right through to the end of Chapter 17, we are in the Upper Room at a Passover Meal with Jesus and His disciples, His friends. This is the last evening of Jesus’ time with His disciples before the Crucifixion.
We have watched Jesus washing His disciples’ feet. We have heard Him talking of the Holy Spirit who will walk alongside them, live within them, help them to be witnesses to the love of God as they live their lives.
And in the middle of all this, come those words of Jesus: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you.”First, there is the wider context of all that Jesus has been saying and doing in the Upper Room and the wider context of the whole prayer in John 17. He could be praying that God will be glorified through the lives of His friends. Jesus has commissioned them to serve Him and they will, from now on, be the ones through whom God is glorified.
Secondly, and in line with the immediate context of John 17: 1-6, Jesus could be talking about something very different.
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