Радио ВЕРА - Евангелие от Иоанна, Глава 8, стихи 21-30. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The Gospel of John, Chapter 8, poems 21-30.

21 Jesus told them again: I leave, and you will look for me, and die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come there.

22 Here the Jews said: will he really kill himself, what he says: “Where am I going, you cannot come”?

23 He said to them: you are from the lower ones, I am from the offshits; You are from this world, I am not from this world.

24 That is why I told you that you will die in your sins; For if you do not believe that it is me, then you will die in your sins.

25 Then they told him: who are you? Jesus said to them: From the beginning, being, as I say to you.

26 I have a lot to talk and judge you; But the sending me is true, and what I heard from him, then I say to the world.

27 did not understand what he told them about his father.

28 So Jesus said to them: when you lift the Son of the Man, then you will find out that it is me and that I do nothing from myself, but as my father taught me, I say so.

29 sent me to me; My father did not leave me alone, for I always do what he wants.

30 When he said this, many believed in him.

Comments the priest Stefan Domuschi:

The reading that we hear today is the continuation of a long conversation with the Jews. Christ speaks with them allegories, to which they, like religious people, should be prepared, but they understand everything literally. And so, explaining his words, he says: “You are from this world, I am not from this world,” which emphasizes the horror of that terrible division between the world of God and the world of people that arose after the fall.

The will of man into a world that is created beautiful is included in separation and suffering, death and loneliness. Turning to the life of the Old Testament righteous, we will see that no matter how pious they were, they still hurt, aged and died. Talking about this, the wise Solomon comes to very sad conclusions: for one fate for all, right and wrong ..., righteous and sinners. There, on the pages of the Old Testament, we meet literally the cry of the prophet Isaiah: “Oh, if you opened the heaven and came off”! And although one prophet uttered these words, they sound seemed to be said on behalf of all mankind, which suffered in their own bustle. Therefore, Christ tells the Jews that they will die in their sins, as their fathers died and, in general, all people on earth.

But further, he says to them: for if you do not believe that it is me, then you will die in your sins. ” What does that mean? Firstly, death in sins is made dependent on faith in it. If you don't believe it, you will die. But what should you believe in? The fact that “it is”? But who is he? If we turn to the Greek text, we will see that the phrase “this me” can be literally translated “this I am”. That is, in terms of meaning and form, it turns out to be extremely consonant with the name that God opens the Prophet Moses. He also says: "I am being." And we hear that Christ literally repeats these words. When the Jews did not understand the words “for if you do not believe that it is me, then you will die in your sins”, they asked him: so who are you? And they heard in response: "From the beginning, being, as I say to you." Christ tells them about himself as God, as the same who spoke with Moses, who was "from the beginning."

And further, when he speaks of the cross: again it sounds a very strange expression: "When you lift the human son, then you will find out that this is me, and that I do nothing from myself, but how my father taught me." Again, this, at first glance, is a strange phrase “this is me”, which again refers us to the mysterious name of God.

So what about today's reading?

First of all, it was that Isaiah received a response to his request: God really went to man. He came off in order to heal the division of the world, so that “death in sins” is not the only prospect for him. However, remembering all this, it is very important not to forget this love and care of God in the same way that we will become involved in it only if we believe that “it is he”, that is, God is.