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Christ is risen, and Mary is weeping: John’s account of the disciples’ discovery of the resurrection has this tension at its heart. In his telling of the story, John stretches out the interval between the (...)

Christ is risen, and Mary is weeping: John’s account of the disciples’ discovery of the resurrection has this tension at its heart. [Looking for commentary on Mark 16:1-8? See this commentary for Easter Sunday by (...)

Reading 1 John all the way through, it sounds more like a sermon than a letter. And the community of early Christians hearing these words preached to them seems to have been one in need (...)

In Luke’s resurrection account, women go to the tomb on Sunday morning. The first thing to be addressed in this passage is to whom is Jesus talking here. The answer comes from John 9 and (...)

This section of 1 John is centered on the theme of “love” (agape) and “loving” (agapan). Although much ink has been spilt over the definition of these words — especially how they may (or may (...)

Peter and John have been instruments of divine resurrection power (Acts 3). The main theme of this section is abiding in Jesus, the true vine. It is not a parable nor an allegory but a (...)

This section brings another exhortation.  The first one was “abide in me” (John 15:4). Now it is “love one another,” and it is marked by a grammatical enclosure, or inclusio (verses 12, 17), which makes (...)

In 2018, the Seventh Sunday of Easter is also Mother’s Day. John consistently uses “Father” language for God, especially in John 17, so it is good to be mindful that this terminology is used to (...)

Compared to Acts’ description of the Spirit descending like tongues of fire at Pentecost, today’s reading from John is sadly lacking in drama. Nevertheless, Jesus’ conversation with his disciples about the Holy Spirit provides an (...)

[Editor’s note: The author has read this text from the perspective of an immigrant, pairing the events of the gospel reading with the events of our time, imagining the gospel taking into account our own (...)