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2026-08-16T12:19:35-04:00

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Breakfast With the Risen Jesus: John 21

Last updated on: August 16, 2026 at 12:19 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Epilogue (John 21:1-25) Here, we find something unique in the Gospels: a scene following the Resurrection, after it had become “common knowledge” among Christ’s followers that he had returned from the dead, which simply shows him spending time with them—neither breaking the news of the Resurrection to anybody, nor giving them a farewell blessing and ascending into heaven. (The only other passage that may be doing the same thing is Matthew 28:16-20, but this is... Read more

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2026-08-10T13:09:12-04:00

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How Did the Risen Jesus Get Through Locked Doors?

Last updated on: August 10, 2026 at 1:09 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Exaltation, Part III (John 20:19-31) Appearances confirming the Resurrection continue. The scene now passes from the Holy Sepulcher to the Upper Room, and the focus changes from the Myrrh-bearers (emblematized in the person of St. Miriam of Migdal) to the Eleven. John 20:19-31, RSV-CE On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews,a Jesus came and stood among themb... Read more

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2026-07-30T00:07:41-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The Exaltation, Part II

Last updated on: July 30, 2026 at 12:07 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Exaltation, Part II (John 20:1-18) We now come to the second and third elements of the Exaltation, otherwise known as the Resurrection and the Ascension. (The Gospel of John depicts only the former, but it alludes to the latter in our text as well.) Theologically, this text and its parallels in the Synoptics lie at the heart of the Christian faith; in purely literary terms, this passage is a marvel, one of the most affecting... Read more

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2026-07-23T21:07:40-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The Exaltation, Part I

Last updated on: July 23, 2026 at 9:07 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Exaltation, Part I (John 19:16b/17-42) In the Synoptic Gospels, Yeshua not infrequently tells the Twelve, in the plainest language possible, that he is going to be betrayed and killed and then rise from the dead. These are generally called predictions of the Passion, a term taken from the Latin verb patī “to experience” or “to suffer.” (This is also the root of terms like: compatī “to pity, to be compassionate”; perpetī “to withstand, to endure,... Read more

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2026-07-16T11:02:15-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The Verdict of the Dark

Last updated on: July 16, 2026 at 11:02 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Verdict of the Dark (John 18:28-19:16/16a) We move now from the ecclesiastical trials to a criminal trial. For this, the Lord must leave the Sanhedrin subcommittee’s custody—for we are in Iudæa, now a Roman province for over twenty years, with a Roman prōcūrātor, one Pontius Pilatus, answerable to Emperor Tiberius. We know from parallel accounts in the Synoptics that some parts of this criminal trial have been left out, yet the Fourth Gospel arguably gives... Read more

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2026-07-10T13:06:36-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The Dark Grasps the Light

Last updated on: July 10, 2026 at 1:06 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The Dark Grasps the Light (John 18:1-27) In the opening verses of the prologue, the evangelist tells us that “the light appears in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it”—I used “grasp” there because the Greek verb, καταλαμβάνω [katalambanō], can have either a literal sense of taking something in your hand, or a metaphoric, intellectual sense (“apprehend” would have been another option). This became a recurring theme throughout the Book of Signs, with Christ... Read more

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2026-07-02T05:13:50-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part III

Last updated on: July 2, 2026 at 5:13 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part III (John 15:18-17:26) Allegory of the Eucharist (c. 1650-1680), by Alexander Coosemans. Here, in the latter half of the Upper Room Discourse, the theme turns a corner. Up to this point, the Lord has spoken primarily of obedience to his command of love, his own unity with God the Father by his own obedient love, and of the unity the Apostles must have with him through obedient love in the Paraclete. All... Read more

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2026-07-01T21:35:44-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part II

Last updated on: July 1, 2026 at 9:35 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part II (John 13:36-15:17) Illumination of the Church (12th c.) from Herrad of Landsberg’s Hortus Deliciarum [“Garden of Delights”], a Medieval encyclopedia. The Upper Room Discourse—or as I have it, “the New Torah“—is a mostly-uninterrupted sermon that occupies the last several verses of chapter 131 and all of chapters 14-16, immediately followed by a prayer said by Christ to God the Father in the Apostles’ presence, which chapter 17 consists in. The four... Read more

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2026-06-18T01:30:58-04:00

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The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part I

Last updated on: June 18, 2026 at 1:30 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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You can find my two-part introduction to the Gospel of John at these two links, and my index/outline for it here; for the previous installment on John 13:1-30, go here. The Gospel of John: The New Torah, Part I This is the pivotal section of the Fourth Gospel. The incarnated Logos, the Wisdom of God the Father, is delivering his last homily to the eleven men who will, eventually, prove faithful to him. He is by nature the greatest of all God’s prophets, and is about to... Read more

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The Gospel of John: A Feast Before the Dusk

Last updated on: June 12, 2026 at 8:08 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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John 13:1-30, RSV-CE The Last Supper (1468), by Dieric Bouts, and possibly the most aggressively Dutch Renais- sance object ever created. Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.a And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray... Read more

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