In truth, in truth I tell you (John 5:17-30)

Biblical reflections by Mauro Leonardi*, priest and writer

Also for Jesus, truth and justice radics in his relationship with the Father. Truth and justice are therefore to testify to a God who is loved and is love. So the son does the same thing.

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Gospel of John 5,17-30

At that time, Jesus replied to the Jews: "My Father always operates and I also operate". Precisely for this reason the Jews tried even more to kill him: because not only did he violate Saturday, but called God his Father, making himself the same as God. Jesus resumed to speak and said: «In truth, in truth I say to you, the son by himself not He can do nothing if not what he sees from the Father; What he does, even his son does it. In fact, his father loves his son, he manifests everything he does and will show him even greater works than these, and you will be amazed. As the Father raises the dead and gives life, so even the son also gives life to those who want; In fact, the father does not judge anyone but has put every judgment to his son, because everyone honors his son as the father honor. Who does not honor the son, does not honor the father who sent him.
In truth, in truth I say to you: who listens to my word and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life and does not meet the judgment, but has gone from death to life. In truth, in truth I tell you: the moment has come, and this is this, in which the dead will hear the voice of the son of God, and those who have listened to it will live. In fact, as the Father has life in himself, so he granted the son that he had life in himself; And he gave him the power to judge, because he is the son of man. You do not marvel at this, since the time comes when all those who are in the sepulchres will hear his voice and come out of it: those who did the good for a life resurrection and those who made evil for a resurrection of conviction. I can't do anything from myself; I judge according to what I listen and my judgment is right, because I don't look for my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

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* Mauro Leonardi (Como 1959) has been a priest since 29 May 1988 and has lived in Rome since then. He spends many hours of his day as a priest and prefers building bridges rather than raising walls. For years he has been writing stories, articles, essays and books that revolve around the relationship between man and God. Author of the blog Come Gesù. Abelis (Lindau) is his latest novel. The volunteers of the Gionata Project thank him for wanting to share these with us reflections on the Word.