Prayer Prompt before reading JN 8:31-42: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” JN 8:31-42
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Jesus is taking off the gloves and using fighting words with the Jews now. They picked up stones to throw at Him. Jesus is continuing to stand firm that He is the Son of God and one with the Father who sent Him. ”Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” Radical. Jesus puts His Word above death. Are you striving to live His Word?
Next, the Jews ask if Jesus is above the covenant of the Torah given to Abraham by God himself. This is a whopper! Jesus answers, ““If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word. Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”
Jesus tells the Jews He knows God much better than they do and calls them liars if they do not believe Him. Then, He puts himself above the great patriarch of the Old Testament, Abraham and says that Abraham rejoiced at seeing Jesus, the Savior.
Last, Jesus puts the icing on the cake. The Jews of course ask how Jesus knows Abraham rejoiced at seeing Him. Jesus replies, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” Jesus calls Himself God once again! These words of Jesus are complete blasphemy or complete Divine Revelation. This is the dividing point for all of us.
Do we believe in what Jesus said (ultimately believing He did die and rise making everything He said true)? Or do we kinda believe, or is there time to believe later, or do we not want to totally commit because we might have to change or be transformed. Believing in anything with our whole heart and soul will be the hardest thing we ever commit to.
It is going to take an act of God (the death and resurrection of His only Son and His grace-both free gifts given to us-is there ever been greater love by another for us) to move our hearts and souls to believe in Jesus Christ, His Word, and life after death. “And when the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, “Then who can be saved?” And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” MT 19:25-26
Let God love you. He is fighting for you. He sent His only Son for you. Does this mean anything to us? God’s entire purpose is to create us, love us, and bring us back home to heaven. Our entire purpose is to gain this knowledge on earth, love Him back, serve Him by loving and serving others doing His will, and returning back to Him in our heavenly home.
Distractions, distractions, we allow so many distractions and selfishness to get in the way of this Divine Plan. It’s Lent, pray, fast, give alms and sit quietly in the Adoration chapel or an empty church and tell God you are all in, ask Him to take the wheel, it’s time to start living not just existing.
Today’s challenge: Ask Jesus to help you believe. “Jesus, I believe, help my unbelief.” MK 9:24
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
Be a servant, be a saint today!
I think that Jesus is trying to tell us that when he says he is abraham that we should of believe him because he is Gods son he wouldn’t lie to us.
In today’s gospel the Lord speaks to the same Jews who still do not believe he is the son of God they say he is disgracing father Abraham’s name by claiming you knew God before him. Little did they know Jesus did meet God before Abraham for his God. They still do not believe so they throw stones at him but he hid and leaves the temple area.
“If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing” this is the phrase that everyone NEEDS to hear today in this world. many people forget that they are not greater than God,so they start to give themselves praise,when they SHOULD be praying to God the Lord almighty.
Do we believe in what Jesus said
This specific line stuck out to me in todays scripture reflection because we have to believe in what Jesus says. Everything he says it is the truth, he speaks only the truth, and we have to believe every word he says to us and to other people so we can strive to grow closer to Jesus Christ.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” JN 8:31-42
In this Gospel, I believe Jesus is trying to tell us that when He meant that the prophets will never taste death. I believe he was trying to say that they would have eternal life with God. I also believe Jesus is trying to say that he is always present, and he was even before Abraham but will always be in our lives especially today and all the days to come
In today’s Gospel I think that Jesus is telling all the people that if they stay in God we will spend all of eternity with him. The Jews heard this and tried to challenge him with questions like “Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say,
‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.'” and this goes to show Jesus’s cleverness cause he didn’t mean literal death he meant that we wont go to hell cause everyone dies but those who go to Heaven live eternal life with God.
In this scripture it says that we let distractions take over our lives and that is true, we let so many things get in the way of us and Jesus and going to mass and praying. Our phones, tv, sports everything we do can be a distraction to Christ but we need to learn how to control it in a way that makes it so we can still have those things but we still put Jesus first.
In today’s Gospel these words stuck out to me “Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM.” The words I AM comes from the Latin
phrase Yaweh Or I AM WHO AM or GOD. Yeah Baby, JESUS IS GOD because
Jesus is FULLY HUMAN AND FULLY DIVINE!
Jesus is telling everybody that He is the Son of God but the Jews don’t believe Him. Just like in our life it is hard to believe in Jesus all the time because of what happens in life or if He doesn’t answer our prayers. Jesus is revealing Himself today at Mass. The Jews didn’t believe Him just like we don’t believe in Him but we have all we need such as Mass, sacraments, and the Bible to let us get closer to Him.
Do we believe God is our savior? Do we really think he is real or are we just “believing” in him so we can get to heaven. You can’t go to heaven if you don’t put all your trust into God. It’s a hard thing to do but once you really have faith no one can take it away from you. What is the worst thing that can happen if you really believe in God though? You can either go to heaven or you can just be a good person if it turns out he isn’t real so nothing bad can happen that is why we should put all our faith into God.
“Jesus tells the Jews He knows God much better than they do and calls them liars if they do not believe Him.” Today God is telling me that Jesus is living proof of God. All of the saints are living PROOF of God. If you ever think that God is fake then keep on praying to Him because He is real and one day you will realize it. Give your life to God as He stands right before our eyes. An example that God is real is us and our everyday life. Pray and pray and pray to help you get closer to Him for He is our way and our truth
In the Gospel Jesus says “I AM” meaning he is the one who was sent to save us and he is God and he does all these great things yet the Jews and the Pharisees still don’t believe him. Sometimes we all find ourselves not really believing in Jesus or thinking there is time to believe later, but now is the best time to trust in God because we don’t know when we will die
“And if I should say that I do not know him,
I would be like you a liar.”
In this what stands out is the I would be like you, a liar. I think we all have lied once, after all we are all human. In this Jesus is also saying that if we say we don’t believe him then were lying. Another thing that stuck out was Jesus calling himself man saying, I AM.
I believe that he is who he says he is he is the one true God of heaven and earth he will come again to judge the living and the dead and when he does many others will believe it will just be to late.
This is the moment where Jesus proclaims to be God. When he said “before Abraham, I AM.” This shows that Jesus is God. The one before all. Do we believe. Do we believe that Jesus is Lord. Do we simply forget because we do not care or we just don’t believe. If we are the ones that do not care; as Jesus says “Amen Amen, I say to you whoever keeps my words will never see death”. Do you believe in the Gospel, that Jesus died and rose from the dead. This is the ultimate belief in our Catholic lives. What makes us so tempted by the devil to think this is fake, or this is just wrong to believe in. I will tell you that. Jesus’s divine mission was to serve not save. As us Catholics we are called to serve. Believe in this, this is what will save you. Believe that there’s one God and I am not him. Because we are not perfect and when somebody tells you that you are perfect you are not. Because no one is perfect like God, and has the power to do so. This is your soul. We all have to believe in, and that is God. The one that turns the body to flesh, and wine to the blood of Christ. BELIEVE
In today’s Gospel Jesus tells the Jews “‘whoever keeps my word will never see death.'” but the Jews don’t start to believe Him instead they say “‘Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?'” They don’t believe Jesus. Jesus tells them all that is true and this only makes them angry and they prepare to stone Him. God only wanted to spread His word to save them. To save us. He put Himself in many dangerous situations just for our salvation and people would get mad at that and mad at Him. All Jesus ever did was love us and we need to be loving as well.
In the first sentence of the Gospel today Jesus is already talking about heaven and if you follow him you shall not die. Now this could have been and was very confusing for the Jews because they did not understand that he was talking about heaven and not he earthly world. Of course we will die in this world our bodies can’t live forever. But as you can see later in the Gospel they say they know he is possessed because he is saying that they will never die if they follow his word. Again they bring up the prophets and that they died. They think he is blasphemous because they think he is saying he is better than Abraham even though he is. Jesus says in response to this that he can’t say who he is because then there is no glory. Then he says that Abraham warned for me. He taught about me. Then they say he is not 50 so he couldn’t have seen Abraham. Then Jesus says I AM. I AM before Abraham and everything else. So then they got really angry because they thought he was being blasphemous and started throwing stones and he left.
You do a great job of synthesizing (bringing it all together) with knowledge you have gained from class and reading the Scriptures! Great job!
In today scripture it says “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible¨ this means that we need to trust God. He has a plan for us and we need to trust him with it. He wouldn’t put you through something you cant handle, he knows everything.
Jesus is again explaining to the same Jews who He is, and they are openly rejecting Him once again. If you think about it, these are people who have known Him His whole life. So when He tries to explain who He is, they are confused, not understanding what He is saying. So they go after Him and chase Him out of the temple area, because they believe HIm to be possessed or blaspheming. They are blinded by their expectations of what they want the messiah to be, not what He is. So when He explains to them, they do not listen, and they do not understand. Despite this, Jesus calls us to take time to listen to His word. He does not always expect us to get it at first, but He is plainly telling us who He is. He calls us to follow Him, because He knows what is best for us.
there well allways be time later to believe, or do we not want to totally commit because we might have to change or be transformed. Believing in anything with our whole heart and soul will be the hardest thing we ever commit to. Jesus is continuing to stand firm that He is the Son of God and one with the Father who sent Him. Jesus puts His Word above death.
Jesus is the divine revelation he died on the cross for us. The least we can do is help others to pay him for the great deed he has performed.
Something that I got out of this was that Jesus said this knowing that the people wouldn’t like it yet he still said it. He knew that they wouldn’t like it yet he still said it anyway. He didn’t come to this earth trying to please everyone and making everyone happy, but do say what really mattered.
What stood out to me was ““If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word. Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” Jesus said this because he wanted the people to believe not because they saw his miracles but because they believed before and the miracles strengthened them.
In todays gospel i think Jesus is trying to tell us that when we pray we get too much distractions. They interrupt us when we pray we allow so many distractions and selfishness to get in the way of talking to Jesus
“If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing” This means that if the Jesus were to give us all the answers it would be religion. You cant have all the answers he wants you to believe and find out later. He wants to leave you wondering so you come back and keep loving him.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” JN 8:31-42.In today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims himself The true God to the Jews.”I AM” The Jews did not believe in him but instead they picked up stones to throw at him but Jesus fled before they could.I feel in this Gospel that Jesus is brave for going into the temple area and professing that he is God.This makes me feel like we should preach his word no matter where we are
In this scripture reflection it says to not let you get distracted from God’s words and to not let that get in the way of God’s calling to you.Let God love you. He is fighting for you. He sent His only Son for you. God created us to show love to us,so that we can get the image that God loves us so much that he will fight sin and temptation for us.
You have to fight the sin and temptation with God’s grace! We can invite Him into our temptation and struggle with sin.
jesus came to earth for ever one of us. Jesus nows God more then we do because he is God. we need to believe in him more.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is saying that He is the Christ and that is very controversial to the pharisees because they don’t yet realize that Jesus is God and God is inside Jesus. We are sometimes like the pharisees because we don’t realize how powerful and loving Jesus was by just the minimal amount of things for a christian life, we have to read the scriptures, pray daily, and go to Mass
I think the phrase, “whoever keeps my word will never see death.” can be misenterpretted easily or just not understand and glanced over. Anybody who beleives in Jesus ad submitted themselves to his grace will be let into heaven and be given eternal life. There physical body’s may die but there souls will remain in heaven with there loved ones and the trinity.
In today’s Gospel Jesus is speaking to the Jews and He tells them “Whoever keeps my word will never see death.” The Jews did not believe Him saying He was possessed. Jesus told them that He was greater then Abraham and they were going to stone Him not knowing He was the true God.
Once again Jesus says he is God. Jesus already knew they would try to kill him if he said what he did. This is where C.S. Lewis’s quote Jesus is either a liar lunatic or the Lord. If a rational person who is only a person and is not God they would have stayed away from the Pharisees and Sadducees, but Jesus is more that just a man he is man and God, so he had to teach so that we may believe.
something I got in thisis this is that do we really believe that jesus is our Savior the reason I think this stuck with me is because Jesus says saying he was God he was Him he Is and all the Pharisees were throwing rocks and stones at him while he was still saying he was God. And in this new generation we are afraid to speak up were not being the Missionaries God sent us to be.
This Scripture to me is telling me that God is “I AM who I AM” which means that He is God. Which is why we should let him into our lives and let him fix our problems, our stress, and anxieties. We should rejoice and embrace him, as he has done the same to us.
I think Jesus is telling us that He is God and he isn’t going to back down i also think this ties into how he is not going to back down from the fight against sin and the devil, He is going to keep fighting for us because he loves us and he takes our sins even when we turn away from him.
“You do not know him, but I know him.
And if I should say that I do not know him,
I would be like you a liar.”
I think Jesus is trying to say that we pretend like we don’t know him because we don’t want people to know that we actually do but Jesus said that he wasn’t going to deny his faith because he doesn’t lie and he knows God because that is who sent him and that is who he believed because, yes Joseph was his (biological-ish) father, but God is his true father who told Jesus what he needed to do. And though Jesus knew that he was going to die for us and get torture, he still did what God said because Jesus is God and he loves him so so much!
something I got in thisis this is that do we really believe that jesus is our Savior the reason I think this stuck with me is because Jesus says saying he was God he was Him he Is and all the Pharisees were throwing rocks and stones at him while he was still saying he was God. And in this new generation we are afraid to speak up were not being the Missionaries God sent us to be . Jesus is God and I think sometimes we don’t realize that and I think we should be better people who can spead the word
It was telling me about when Jesus walked on Earth and when Jesus said He WAS GOD!!!!!!!!
“Believing in anything with our whole heart and soul will be the hardest thing we ever commit to.” It’s true. Believing in something that doesn’t seem true is hard to actually believe it. But we do believe in some things in the world. Jesus. Jesus did all of that stuff for us and we believe it because we wouldn’t even be alive right now if he hadn’t.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” This stuck out to me in the Gospel because Jesus is telling the Jews that if you believe in what Jesus is saying, then you will live forever in Heaven. This is what Jesus wants for us. To believe and trust in God!
In this Gospel it is taking me back to when Jesus said “I am” as in he is the law of Moses and he is the one the prophets talk about
The message I got from today’s gospel is that we need to choose whether we will trust in Jesus, or be like the people and rebuke his word. Some of us may act like we are Christlike, but behind the scenes we are not. If we are truly Christlike, we should act like it publicly and privately. We need to have faith that God has a plan for all of us.
Amen!
‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’ What this me is that if we keep Jesus words for ever we will have eternal life in heaven with God the Father.
“Amen Amen I say to you”. When Jesus says those 6 words you should expect it to be important.”If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ Be humble in your works Jesus doesn’t go around and say im so cool he is humble. We need to try and be like Jesus.
I think that todays Gospel was telling me that Jesus will never back down and will always stand up. The Pharisees didn’t believe Jesus because Jesus was saying He was God even though He is they didn’t believe Him. We always have to Believe and not let anyone judge us for that.
Jesus tells the Jews that whoever believes in his word shall not die, but the Jews are confused because Abraham believed in him but still died. the Jews got angrier because Jesus said that He met Abraham, so the Jews throw stones at Jesus.
when it says “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing” its telling me that in the end its God who will be there for you
He is in a heated conflict of saying that he is not going to glorify himself but his father will
Jesus said this and did all these things knowing that people would hate him and dislike him. Even through all of these miracles Jesus performed there was still people who didn’t believe. He says to them, “I AM WHO I AM” He proclaims to the Jews that He is God. That shows That He was strong willed and wasn’t scared to tell people who He is. and when He says “I AM WHO I AM” Hes telling us that He is with us forever.
So the Jews said to him,
“You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
So they picked up stones to throw at him;
but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.
Jesus is just trying to tell us that he is, the living son of God, but no one believes him. They went out of there way to try and stone him, for what!? i understand that Jesus said “‘Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever keeps my word will never see death.'” but why? Why is my only question, it was so obvious he was Gods living son but no one had the care in the world for him! Would you want Jesus to suffer like this? Jesus went through so much denile, beatings, and so much hurt, for us. Yet we have nothing to give him, you should be able to give Jesus everything, and anything. Yet you can’t seem to find anything to give him. You may be like : “I need to give up something greater”. No! you don’t need to all Jesus wants is for is to be his disciples and yet we cant deliver that Wish that he wants. Yet we still want to give him a gift, a ‘true’ gift. The true gift for Jesus is love, kindness, gratitude, again, just being a disciple of the Lord! How far would you go for Jesus?
Jesus says, “I am,” which was him declaring that he is the Son of God. Even when the people at the temple were saying that Abraham and the prophets are dead, and asking if He was greater than Abraham. Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing;
but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.'” Jesus showed humility and confidence yet the people in the temple attempted to throw rocks at Him before He fled.
I think that today in the Gospel God is telling us that He, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have always existed, are existing, and will always exist. Even after this earthly world ends, they will still exist, and all of those who believed and followed God will exist with them, too.
”Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” when we believe in God we can do so much. Gods plan for you is so much greater than your plan for yourself
In today’s Gospel, Jesus talks to the Jews about who God is. I think for every person, God may be different. But in the end we all share the same goal: to learn God’s love for us and to strive to live a better, holier, loving life. Without God, we wouldn’t exist, and neither would anything else. IF God created us for such great things, then why do we put our faith and trust into worldly objects that we wont even need for Heaven?
In today’s gospel the Jesus speaks to the same Jews who still do not believe he is the son of God they say he is disgracing Abraham’s name by claiming you knew God before him. They still do not believe so they throw stones at him but he hid and leaves the temple.
If we listen to God’s word we will never see death. By that he means that will make it to heaven with him for eternal life. We need to listen to the word of God in order to make it there. We need to be holy to make it there.
Jesus is telling everybody that He is the Son of God but the Jews don’t believe Him. Just like in our life it is hard to believe in Jesus all the time because of what happens in life or if He doesn’t answer our prayers. Without God we wouldn’t exist and neither would anything else in this world. God’s plans for us are so much bigger than what we think it is, we just need to trust in Him.
Int he scripture Jesus is telling the Jews who he is again. The Jews asked Who do you make yourself out to be?” Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing;but it is my Father who glorifies me,of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ He is saying that God is making the decisions and we need to listen to them you can’t just call yourself something if that’s not the way that God made you.
In today’s gospel Jesus says, “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” I think this means that whoever does not sin will go to heaven. This is true because we must be pure to go to heaven. That is why Purgatory is here, so we can get rid of our sins to go to heaven. Without Purgatory we would all go to hell, unless we were sinless. God gave us a wonderful gift of a second chance to get to Him, Purgatory.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.”
This stuck out to me because its saying that of we reject God and follow the ten commandments then we wont go to heaven with him we will be in hell dead because we have not reunited with our soul or with Jesus our savior
“Jesus tells the Jews He knows God much better than they do and calls them liars if they do not believe Him.” Today God is telling me that Jesus is living proof of God. If you ever think God is fake, pray and pray and pray and one day you will realize that God is right in front of us and has been our whole life. He is just waiting for us to realize this and create a special relationship with Him.
” we allow so many distractions and selfishness to get in the way of this Divine Plan.” we do let so many tings get in the way of us and God, including our desires which could ruin our Chastity. Then we try to hide ourselves so God doesn’t see us. If you’re hiding something from others then should you be doing that? is it helpful or does it just get in the way of you and Jesus? Dont let desires or earthly things get in the way of you and Jesus.
Jesus is trying to say that we are liars if we don’t believe in him. Who lies againts Jesus lies againts the father.Our physical body’s may die but our souls will remain in heaven with our loved ones and the trinity.
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM.” Jesus is the Lord, and hes trying to help them see that.
Today in the Gospel Jesus says that whoever keeps my word will not see death. This does not mean that we wont die instead it means that eternal life is in heaven waiting for us.
In today’s gospel, the Jews don’t believe that Jesus is really the son of God. I think that the message in this gospel is really clear. We need to believe in God. The Jews couldn’t understand how Jesus could know Abraham, when he wasn’t alive then. We believe in Jesus and we know how he is truly the son of God.
What stuck out to me was if we stay with him we will still be with HIm internally. At this point in the bible to me he was hinting towards heaven. We needed to follow his teachings and try not to sin and we shall get to heaven and be with the Father and Son forever.
“You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” The Jews are arguing with Jesus and they pull that phrase out. Your age shouldn’t have any effect on how connected you are to God. The people arguing with Jesus have to attack his age because they can’t argue with him about God. Jesus knows God infinitely times more than them. Jesus has all the answers, go to him when you are in need.
“Do we believe in what Jesus said?” This stuck out to me because, I personally struggle to believe if God will help me sometimes. We need to always trust God because, he speaks the truth and ONLY the truth.
In today’s Gospel Jesus is talking about how He is the living God, but no one believes in Him. They tried to throw stones at Jesus but He hid and went to the Temple area. We need to believe in God so that we can go to Heaven with Him. Jesus is trying to say that He is God but down here on Earth. Jesus is trying to bring us to Heaven with Him.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” I think Jesus is saying that if we keep his word that means if we follow him and trust him and believe in him that we will go to heaven and live with him and never see death his saying how we wont see hell.
“If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God,” This stuck out to me as Jesus telling us that the things the world sees as valuable, is not as valuable as they make it seem to be. The world thinks that money, power, fame, possessions, and comfort are what give people their worth, but no, God gives us our worth. He tells us that we need to be kind, humble, respectful, understanding, and loving, so it is these things that truly give us our worth in this life and the next.
‘He is our God.’You do not know him, but I know him. We know who Jesus is but do we know who God is. He has heard about Jesus and how he has done these great miracles. We haven’t seen God do anything before. If you are thinking that then you are wrong because what Jesus did God did. The Holy Spirit is within us and God works through the Holy Spirit. God is literally working through you right now.
This is simple whoever believes in God will go to heavan for eternity.
In the Gospel Jesus says “I am” meaning he is the one who was sent to save us and he is God and he does all these great things yet the Jews and the Pharisees still don’t believe him. Jesus is everything that we need, he is kind to us and he will always be our father and our friend, by our side when we need him.
If we truly believe and stay humble and inline with God’s will, we will see heaven. We should not glorify ourselves or else out glory will be worth nothing
“With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” This stuck out to me, because it is true with God all things are possible, if your having a difficult time then turn to God and he will help you through it. We need to always trust in God to help us.
“whoever keeps my word will never see death.” This part of the gospel stuck out to me because it shows that if we keep Jesus’s word we will forever be with him. If we talk bad about Jesus and don’t care for him it can lead us to hell. that’s why we want to keep his words an follow after him.
In today’s Gospel it shows that they did not believe Jesus, yet they have been waiting for a savior and when He came they did not believe Him. Whoever believes in Jesus will have eternal life in Heaven with Him. God loves us all and wants us to be with Him in Heaven all we have to do is believe and have faith in Him.
What stuck out to me was, ” Do we believe what Jesus said¨ This stuck out to me because sometimes we can get lost and not believe Jesus. But we need to always remind ourselves that Jesus will do what he tells us he will do.
Let God love you. He is fighting for you. He sent His only Son for you. Does this mean anything to us? God’s entire purpose is to create us, love us, and bring us back home to heaven. Our entire purpose is to gain this knowledge on earth, love Him back, serve Him by loving and serving others doing His will, and returning back to Him in our heavenly home.The lord is always there for everyone even if you are down or mad he will always be there to help you out. He wants us to love him because he loves us and no matter what we do he still loves us .
No matter how much Jesus said, did, offered up, was selfless about things, they wouldn’t listen nor believe him. God had done so much to show us examples and what to look up after yet the outcome people treat it with is not so great. We need to stop being full of ourselves and devices and need to start looking more up to God and being grateful in what we have with our surroundings, nature, and loved ones.
“Jesus tells the Jews He knows God much better than they do and calls them liars if they do not believe Him.” Jesus is trying to tell the Jews about God and that he is the Messiah, but they don’t believe him. Jesus is trying to speak to us everyday and we don’t listen, Jesus is calling our name and we must listen. We have to answer his call and come to him.
“So they picked up stones to throw at him.” Today this quote stuck out to me in the Gospel. The Jews did not believe in what Jesus was saying, so they tried to hurt him. We can be like the Jews. We might not always believe in what Jesus says, but we must try to understand. We must have faith to know that whatever we may not understand is true when it comes from the Word of God. People are always going to disagree with Christ’s teachings, but we must be the ones to protect Jesus and defend his name and Kingship.
The Jews refused to believe that Jesus was the son of God. Even after all the works he had done, and the wisdom he had shared, they still rejected him. I think that it is crucial that we embrace Jesus and let him lead us on the path to heaven because if we give ourselves totally to Jesus and his will, then we will become without sin, and we spend eternity with God in heaven.
Proof. It’s what we all need when we say something towards somebody that doesn’t believe us. This is exactly what happened to Jesus. The Jews didn’t believe His word when He spoke it. Jesus said that He is above everything else and is God, which seems blasphemous and seems fake. A division occurred when Jesus said that He was God. Some people believed and some didn’t. So whenever you pray, remember to ask yourself. Do. I. Believe?
”Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” I think Jesus is trying to tell me is that if you keep His word and believe, you will never see death (hell) and you will go and be with Him in Heaven for eternity.
I like it when Jesus angers the Jews it means that not only were the Jews angry but they were jealous of the relationship between Jesus and God.
I feel like Jesus was being kind of straight forward when he said “I AM” he was the Messiah to save us, and they were going to kill him.
“Whoever keeps my word will never see death.” Jesus is telling us that if we do the will of the Lord and do the things that God has put here to do. We will be in heaven with him. You have two choices: follow Jesus and do what God is telling us to do, or reject Jesus and do whatever we want to do. So God says that it is up to us on what we chose. Free will, that is what he has given us here today.
In today’s scripture “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” this stuck out to me. I think it means that Whoever believes won’t be going to hell but to heaven. This tells me that I should keep believing in God and get to heaven. We should all be believing. God has shown us his love and care we should believe in him.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” This part of the Gospel stuck out to me today. Jesus tells the Jews that whoever believes in Him won’t see death, but they don’t believe Him. They question Him and accuse Him of blasphemy in the name of Abraham. But Jesus replies with these words. He is proving here that He is both fully God and Fully human, in the Trinity with unity with His Father. We proclaim this in the Glory Be. We are called to fully believe in what we pray. He was, is and ever shall be, world without end. that’s why He uses “I AM” instead of “I was”.
Wow, that is a great reflection! Good job!
I love it in the Gospels when Jesus says, “I AM” Because in the times that Jesus lived in, the name of God was so sacred that you weren’t even allowed to say it and some people still hold that tradition to this day. Yahweh. That’s God’s personal name.
I find it insane how much our culture has dumbed down religion and God. It used to be blasphemy to even say his name, yet now we run around dropping it in curse words without a second thought. And while I’m guilty of doing it too, it makes me so incredibly sad that this is something that happens, that Jesus even let happen. But when I think about it, I’m reminded of a homily Fr. Jarrod gave. He said that God allows himself to be so humble, even to the point of ridicule and rejection, just because he loves us so much and doesn’t want us to be afraid of him. Think of how angry you would get if someone were to say terrible things about you and just completely trash your name and everything you’ve done, even if all you’ve ever done was good. And then think of how Jesus doesn’t even back away the tiniest bit of his love. In fact, he loves us more (if that’s even possible) despite all of those things. His love is the blasphemous thing, His love is reckless and crazy and unfathomable.
I think that the gospel is trying to tell us is that some people are like the Jews. They don’t believe in God and they won’t believe in God unless he floats down from the clouds, even then some won’t think he is a God. That is why they need us, they need us to teach them the truth about God. We need to make them believe in God the father and we need to do it without force. Just remember what Jesus would do. People might only do stuff when it makes them look better, but God did stuff when someone needed it. Healing the sick giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf. He does it all and he doesn’t brag or tell anyone how awesome he is for doing it. Which makes people not believe him. He doesn’t care, it isn’t his job to make them believe, its his job so save them even when they don’t think he is saving them. Because he is our God. Dads don’t talk about work with their kids. But they still do it. Were the kids and he is our father, he died for our sins. So why not spread the word? Because it might ruin out reputation? Jesus didn’t care about his reputation, only us and we cant even do a little thing like spreading our faith. We are like his disciples, following him until he needs us and we leave him and pretend we don’t know us. But he didn’t care, he saved us! So spread the word of God to others.
“before Abraham came to be, I AM.” This is Jesus telling us that he is God. This stuck out to me because right after Jesus said that they threw stones at him because they didn’t believe him. I feel like sometimes we are the ones throwing stones. Obviously as Christians we believe in Jesus Christ but sometimes we set him to the side. Sometimes God is just right in front of us and we still ignore him and his words just as the Jews did. And previously Jesus says, “Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.” This is Jesus literally telling us to keep his word to stay close to him. Jesus is right in front of us telling us what to do and we need to listen. Jesus also says, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing,” This is Jesus showing his humbleness and this is the type of humble we should strive to be so we can be open to Jesus and get closer to him.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” JN 8:31-42 This stood out to me because Jesus is saying that If you keep me word you will never meet/see death. Another reason why this stood out to me was because if we keep Jesus word we will not see death.
Jesus is saying in the Gospel that if we listen to Him that will not taste death. We must, MUST listen to Him. If we want to have eternal life, Jesus has to be the center of our life. We must help others, be kind to one one another, and most of all, follow Him.
it today’s Gospel what stuck out to me
was Amen amen i say to you whom ever
keeps my word will never see death what
that means if we do what God teaches us
we shall have eternal life .
This is telling us that Jesus was before even the first person came to be because he is God who was before all things that exist.
“totally commit because we might have to change or be transformed”. I think this is saying that we are scared that if we give our life to God we are going to lose whatever we had before like some of our after school stuff or things we do with our friends.
I think this Gospel is telling me that not all people will believe in God. When Jesus told the people in the temple that He is God they threw stones at him. Not all people will believe but we can. God gives us the chance to love Him and we have to take it now and not wait until later. Get your religion straight now, really have a connection with God, and be in Gods image so others will believe with you.
Because of our sin we die from our earthly bodies but our soul remains. Our earthly life depends on where our soul goes to heaven or hell. When we say but we all die there is an end only for our earthly bodies.
In today’s Scripture Jesus is telling me that we must not be afraid to speak what is true. For Jesus got persecuted by the Jews they didn’t believe what is true. But, we have to be like Jesus and be brave about our faith. He stood his ground until things got violent. We should do the same stand our ground but still respect the individual. If they try to fight step away. We are only there to spread the word of God to others. You trying to do this and teaching them could be amazing for you and others to see. It doesn’t matter where you glorify it it can be anywhere. You just have to fully commit to him and keep him close always.
In today’s Gospel, a fierce yet powerful message is given to us from Jesus. God tells us to have unwavering faith in him and the Trinity, and believe that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah, the same Messiah spoken through the prophets. We must put Jesus at the center of our lives, the very foundation of our existence. In the passage in the Gospel of John, Jesus proclaims that he is God and has been God this entire time. Of course, the Jews didn’t believe him, as they thought that Jesus would be a political and rich king, not some son of a carpenter. But Jesus doesn’t back down. He says that he is before Abraham, the father of the Jews and knows the Father. We must take our time to reflect on the faith we have in Christ and his Passion and what he did for us.
“If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me” This stood out to me because it tells me to always stay humble and to glorify nothing but the Lord. Don’t say or do things to glorify yourself. Keep to yourself and humbly live a peaceful life that isn’t with the intention to make others think you are better or above them. Glorify God and not worldly things. Do things out of the kindness of your heart and not for glorification.
something that stuck out to me was when Jesus said “Amen, amen, I say to you,whoever keeps my word will never see death.” when we die we will go to purgatory but after that if you truly believe in God and in the gospels you will go to heaven so if we do what we are supposed to do on earth we have a good chance of getting to go to heaven with all the saints and angles that what stuck out to me.
In today’s Gospel what stuck out to me was
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS
MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” what
that means if we follow Gods teach
we will have eternal life with the father
“But I do know him and I keep his word.” I think what this Gospel is trying to say is that God wants us all to keep His word, and by doing that we will get into heaven and live a peaceful eternal life with him.
Jesus said to the Jews:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever keeps my word will never see death.” This part really stuck out to me because it sounds like it is saying that we should believe in God and always follow his rules and commandments because he truly loves us with his whole heart. I love this part also because it is saying if you keep me present and keep praying and never stop believing in the one true God because if you keep following him, you will never see death and never be away from God the almighty power. That died from your sins because he wanted to save and keep us with him. It sticks out to me because when it says you never see death means you will never be alone because you will be up in heaven with God having a good time not only because you are with God, but also because you will have eternal life with Jesus Christ son of the living God. Never Stop and Never Give up on Jesus Christ himself. BELIEVE! Have a good rest of your day!! Jesus loves you so much with his whole heart and also God Bless You!!!!!!
Jesus said to the Jews:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever keeps my word will never see death.” This part really stuck out to me because it sounds like it is saying that we should believe in God and always follow his rules and commandments because he truly loves us with his whole heart. I love this part also because it is saying if you keep me present and keep praying and never stop believing in the one true God because if you keep following him, you will never see death and never be away from God the almighty power. That died from your sins because he wanted to save and keep us with him. It sticks out to me because when it says you never see death means you will never be alone because you will be up in heaven with God having a good time not only because you are with God, but also because you will have eternal life with Jesus Christ son of the living God. Never Stop and Never Give up on Jesus Christ himself. BELIEVE! Have a good rest of your day!! Jesus loves you and also God Bless You!!!!!!
Amen Amen I say to you
What I think the Lord is trying to tell me is that if we follow his word and his path.
and we wont have to face Satan or hell because we will be in heaven
I feel like he is trying to tell me to stop and put our devices down and just pray because he is trying to say that these devices are taking over the world.
we spend so much time on our electronics that we don’t have time to pray.
These devices are mind-controlling.
We don’t even have any time to think about him because of these devices we need to spend less time on our phones tablets and other stuff and just pray.
We just need to spend more time with him and pray and love him.
Even though it is really tempting don’t fall for it that’s Satan trying to trick you into stop praying so just power your phone off so it does not make any noise and distracts you and just pray.
Pray like you’re in a trance no distractions no nothing just prayer and time with God.
I think God is telling us that if we love him and pray and spread the gospel, we will go to heaven.
The scripture is telling me that God has a plan already formed for us. He made us and gave us a job to spread the Word and love our neighbors and treat them with kindness. He set our journey in what He knows is good for us. We need to trust in His plan for us because He has already set our path and it’s up to us to choose whether or not to follow it.
“AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER KEEPS MY WORD WILL NEVER SEE DEATH.” Jesus promises those who keep his word, and follow Him will have a new life in heaven. Like the verse that says whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever gives up his life to Christ will have new life in heaven. We can’t let the life we lead here on earth come before our new life we want to gain in heaven.
“Do we believe in what Jesus said”
This stuck out to me in Today’s scripture reflection because we have to believe in what Jesus says. Nowadays people are falling away from our Lord. Everything he says it is the truth, he speaks only the truth, and we have to believe every word he says to us and to other people so we can strive to grow closer to Jesus Christ.