3. Respecting the uniqueness of the Living Word

Annas

18:13-27

Question who have heard

[c/f NB witness]

(not same as successor)

18:13 and led to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest year of that; 14 now it was Caiaphas the one having advised the Jews that it was expedient one man to die on behalf of the people. 15 and followed Jesus Simon Peter and another disciple And disciples that was known to the high priest and entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest. 16 but Peter stood at the door outside. Went out therefore the disciple other known to the high priest and told the portress, and brought in Peter. 17 Says therefore to Peter the maidservant the portress: Not also thou of the disciples art man of this? Says that one: I am not. 18 And stood the slaves and the attendants a fire having made, because cold it was, and were warming themselves; and was also Peter with them standing and warming himself. 19 The therefore high priest questioned Jesus about the disciples of him and abut the teaching o him. 20 answered him Jesus: I

will plainness have spoken to the world: I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, where al the Jews come together, and in secret I spoke nothing. 21 Why me questionest thou? question the ones having heard what I spoke to them : behold these know what things said I. 22 These things and him saying one standing of the attendants gave a blow to Jesus saying: Thus answerest thou the high priest? 23 answered him Jesu: if ill I spoke, witness concerning the evil; but if well, why me beatest thou? 24 Sent therefore Annas having been bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 Now was Simon Peter standing and warming himself. they said therefore to him: Not also thou of the disciples of him art? denied that one and said: I am not. 26 Says one of the slaves of the high priest, a relative being of him of whom cut off Peter the ear: Not I thee saw in the garden with him? 27 Again therefore denied Peter, and immediately a cock sounded.

4. Using a philosophical base

Pilate

18:28-40

Hear voice of truth

[c/f philosophical base]

Witness to truth

18:28 They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium; and it was early; and they entered not into the pretorium lest they should be defiled but might eat the Passover. 29 Went forth therefore Pilate outside to them and says: What accusation bring ye man of this? 30 They answered and said to him: Unless was this man evil doing, would not to thee we have delivered him. 31 Said therefore to them Pilate: Take him ye, and according to the law of you judge ye him. Said to him the Jews: For us it is not lawful to kill one. 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said signifying by what death he was about to die. 33 Entered therefore again into the praetorium Pilate and called Jesus and said to him: Thou art the king of the Jew? 34 Answered Jesus: From thyself thou this sayest, the others told thee about me? 35 Answered Pilate not I a Jew am? the nation thy and the chief

priests delivered thee to me; what didst thou. 36 Answered Jesus: The kingdom my is not of world this. if of world this was the kingdom my, the attendants would my have struggled, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; now but the kingdom my is not hence. 37 Said therefore to him Pilate: Not really a king art thou? Answered Jesus: Thou sayest that a king I am. I for this have been born and for this I have come into the world that I might witness to the truth; everyone being of the truth hears of me the voice. 38 Says to him Pilate: What is truth? And this having said again he went forth to the Jews, and tells them: I no find in him crime. 39 But there is a custom to you that one I should release to you at the Passover; will ye therefore that I release to you the king of the Jews? 40 They cried out therefore again saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. But was Barabbas a robber.

5. Observing the human dimension of the Living Word

Crowd

19:1-16

Behold the man

[c/f humanity of Jesus]

the man

19:1. Then therefore took Pilate Jesus and scourged him 2. And the soldiers having plaited a wreath of thorns put on of him the head, and garment a purple three round him. 3 and came to him and said: Hail king of the Jews: and they gave him blows. 4 And went forth again outside Pilate and says to them: Behold I bring to you him out, that ye may know that no crime I find in him. 5 Came forth therefore Jesus outside wearing the thorny wreath and the purple garment. And he says to them: Behold the man. 6 When therefore saw him the chief priests and the attendants, they shouted saying: Crucify crucify. Says to them Pilate. Take him ye and crucify; for I find not in him crime. 7 Answered him the Jews: We a law have, and according to the law he ought to die, because Son of God himself he made. 8 When therefore heard Pilate this word, more he was afraid. 9 and entered into the praetorium again and says to Jesus Whence art thou? But Jesus answer did not give him. 10 Says

therefore to him Pilate: To me speakest thou not? knowest thou not that authority I have to release thee and authority I have to crucify thee? 11 Answered Jesus: Thou hadst not authority against me not any unless it was having been given thee from above; therefore the one having delivered me to thee a greater sin has. 12 From this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews shouted saying: If this man thou releasest thou art not a friend of Caesar: everyone a king himself making speaks against Caesar. 13 Therefore Pilate hearing words these brought outside Jesus and sat on a tribunal in a place being called Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14 Now it was preparation of the Passover hour it was about sixth and he says to the Behold the king of you. 15 Shouted therefore those: Take take crucify him. Says to them Pilate: The king of you shall I crucify? answered the chief priests: We have not a king except Caesar. 16 Then therefore he delivered him to them that he should be crucified.

6. Fulfilling Scripture

Soldiers

19:16-24

That Scripture be fulfulfilled

[c/f fulfill Scripture]

King of the Jews

They took therefore Jesus. 19:17 and carrying to himself the cross he went forth to the being called of a scull place 18 where him they crucified and with him others two on this said and on that and in the middle Jesus. 19 And wrote also a title Pilate and put it on the cross and it was having been written Jesus the Nazarene the king of the Jews. 20 This therefore title many read of the Jews, because near was the place the city where was crucified Jesus; and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek . 21 Said therefore to Pilate the chief priests of the Jews: Write not: The king of the

Jews, but that that man said: King I am of the Jews. 22 Answered Pilate What I have written, I have written. 23 Therefore the soldiers when they crucified Jesus took the garments of him and made four parts, to each soldier a part and the tunic. Now was the tunic seamless, from the top woven throughout. 24 They said therefore to one another: Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots about it of whom it shall be that the Scripture might be fulfilled: They parted the garments of me to themselves and over the raiment of me they cast a lot. The therefore soldiers these things did.

7. Seeing the maternal nature of Church

Mother

19:17-26

Behold the son of thee

[c/f children of church]

Jesus

25 there stood but by the cross of Jesus the mother of him and the sister of the mother of him. Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary the Magdalene. 26 Jesus therefore

seeing the mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved; says to the mother: Woman, behold the son of thee.

8. Adopting the way of the child

Beloved disciple

19:27-30

Behold the mother of thee

[c/f 'way' of the childk]

Jesus

19:27 then he says to the disciple: Behold the mother of thee. And from that hour took the disciple her to his own home. 28 After this knowing Jesus that now all things have been finished that might be fulfilled the Scripture, says: I thirst.29 A vessel was set of vinegar

full; a sponge therefore full of the vinegar a hyssop putting round they brought it to of him the mouth. 30 When therefore took the vinegar Jesus he said. It has been finished, and inclining the head delivered up the spirit.

9. Caring for the body of Jesus Christ

Arimathea

19:31-42

(Take initiative)

[care for body of Jesus]

Him (c/f Scripture)

19:31 The therefore Jews, since preparation it was, that might not remain on the cross the bodies on the Sabbath, for was great the day of that Sabbath, they asked Plate that might be broken of them the legs and they might be taken. 32 Came therefore the soldiers, and of the first broke the legs and of the other crucified with him; 33 on but Jesus coming when they saw already him to have died, they did not break of him the lets. 34 but one of the soldiers with a lance of him the side ricked, and therefore immediately blood and water. 35 And the one having seen has witnessed, and true of him is the witness, and that one knows that truly he says, that also ye may believe. 36 For happened these that the Scripture might be fulfilled: A bone shall not be broken of him. 37 and again another

Scripture says: They shall look at him whom they pierced. 38 Now after these things asked Pilate Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus having been hidden but because of the fear of the Jews, that he might take the body of Jesus: and allowed Pilate. He came therefore and took the body of him. 39 And came also Nicodemus, the one having come to him of night at first bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about pounds a hundred. 40 They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in sheets with the spices, as custom is with the Jews to bury. 41 Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden tomb a new, in which never yet not any one was having been put. 42 there therefore because of the preparation of the Jews, because near was the tomb, they put Jesus.

10 Providing support for leadership

Magdalene

20:1-18

Go .to brothers and tell

[c/f support leadership]

Rabboni

20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes early darkness yet being to the tomb, and sees the stone having been taken out of the tomb. 2 She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom loved Jesus and says to them: They the Lord out of the tomb and we do not know where they put him. 3 Went forth therefore Peter and the other disciples, and came to the tomb. 4 And ran the two together and the other disciple ran before more quickly then Peter and came first to the tomb, 5 and stooping sees lying the sheets, not however he entered. 6 Comes therefore also Simon Peter following him, and entered into the tomb; and he beholds the sheets lying. 7 and the kerchief, which was on the heard of him, not with the sheets lying but apart having been wrapped up in the one place. 8 Then therefore entered also the other disciple having come first to the tomb, and he saw and believed; 9 for not yet they knew the Scripture, that it behoves him from the dead to rise again. 10 Went away therefore again to themselves the disciples. 11

But Mary stood at the tomb outside weeping. As therefore she was weeping, she stooped into the tomb, 12 and beholds two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where lay the body of Jesus. 13 And say to her those: Woman why weepest thou? She says to them. They took the Lord of me and I know not where they put him. 14 These things saying she turned back and beholds Jesus standing and knew not that Jesus it was. 15 Says to her Jesus: Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? That one thinking that the gardener it was says to him: Sir if thou didst carry him, tell me where thou didst put him and I him will take. 16 says to her Jesus: Mary, Turning that one says to him in Hebrew: Rabboni (which is said Teacher). 17 Says to her Jesus: Not me touch, for not yet have I ascended to the Father: but go thou to the brothers of me and tell them: I ascend to the Father of me and Father of you and God of me and God of you. 18 Comes Mary the Magdalene announcing to the disciples. I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to her.

11. Giving assurance of forgiveness

Disciples

20:19-23

Peace, go, receive H.S.

[c/f sacrament of penance]

The Lord

20: 19 Being therefore early evening day on that the one of the week, and the doors having been shut where were the disciples because of the fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and says to them. Peace to you. 20 And this saying he showed both the hands and the side to them. Rejoiced therefore the

disciples seeing the Lord. 21 Said therefore to them Jesus again: Peace to you; as has sent me the Father, I also send you. 22 And this saying he breathed in and says to them: Receive ye Spirit Holy. 23 Of whomever ye forgive the sins, they have been forgiven to them: of whoever ye hold, they have been held.

12. Giving priority to faith

Thomas

20:24-30

Be faithful

[c/f priority of faith]

My Lord and My God

20:24 But Thomas one of the twelve, being called Twin, was not with them when came Jesus. 25 Said therefore to him the other disciples: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Unless I see in the hands of him the mark of the nails and put the finger of me into the place of the nails and put of me the hand into the side of him, by no means will I believe. 26 And after days eight again were within the disciples of him and Thomas with them. Comes Jesus the doors having been shut and stood in the midst and said: Peace to you. 27 Then he says to Thomas: Bring the finger of thee here and

see the hands of me, and bring the hand of thee and put into the side of me, and be not faithless but faithful. 28 Answered Thomas and said to him: The Lord of me and the God of me. 29 Says to him Jesus: Because thou hast seen me, hast thou believed? blessed the ones and seeing and believing. 30 Many therefore and other signs did Jesus before the disciples which is not having been written in roll this; 31 but these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus in is the Christ the Son of God and that believing life ye may have in the name of him.

name of Him 24:30