Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at
work.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him, because he not only
broke the Sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal
to God.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son
cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what
he does, the Son will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him
everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these,
so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives
life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father
judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor
the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not
honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word
and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to
condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the
hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of
God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself,
so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him
power to exercise judgment because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at
this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear
his voice and will come out those who have done good deeds to the resurrection
of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of
condemnation.
“I cannot do anything on my own;I judge as I hear, and my judgment is
just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
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Reflection:
Do you believe that Jesus and the Father are one? The critics of Jesus
did not believe this oneness of the father and the son. The critics of Jesus
did not believe because their mindset is based on their human understanding
which is always subject to limitations.
What separates us from the critics of Jesus in our gospel? We believe in
the oneness of the father and the son, we believe because we have faith. Faith
that is not subject to what our eyes and ears can see and hear.
If our faith is confined to what we could only see and hear this is
actually not faith because true faith or deep faith requires believing even
without seeing. Through our faith in both the father and the son we are
able to further discover the many truths about our catholic faith. And we
are also able to grow more in faith and knowledge about our universal church.
Perhaps some of us may ask, Why am I not growing in faith? The answer to
this is we lack something, perhaps this something is our lack of faithful
adherence to the teachings of our universal church.
Say for example our lack of adherence to the insolubility of the
Sacrament of Matrimony, the Sanctity of human life, the healing and cleansing
value of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the many more teachings of our
catholic faith. We would not grow in faith if we don’t believe these teachings.
Do you believe in the oneness of the Son and the Father and do you also
believe and practice the teachings of our catholic faith? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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