Last Supper Discourse

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Last Supper Discourse 

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Jn 14:7-14

[Jesus said to his disciples,] ⁷“If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” ⁸Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. ¹²Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.”

I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Jesus often tells us of his oneness with the Father. This is intimacy and perfect unity at a level incomprehensible to human reason. One must have the eyes of faith to be able to grasp something of Jesus’ loving us to the end and to see God revealed in Jesus through his words and deeds (miracles) and, perhaps more mysteriously, through his passion, death, and resurrection.

Philip represents the uncomprehending disciples who have not profited from the length of their companionship with Jesus, perhaps because their relationship lacked quality and perseverance. Jesus requires firmness and attention from his followers. Those who respond to Jesus in the way that he indicates will discover that they, too, can know, see, and believe as true disciples. And they can also experience and share in the unity of the Father and the Son when they are in communion while doing the mission of the Church.

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