[Propertalk] Gospel tips - John 13:31-35 - Part 5

[Joe Parrish]

The Reverend Joachim Alexandropoulos was an Orthodox priest on a Greek isle in World War II, now memorialized at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The Nazis came one day, demanding that he provide them, the next day, with a list naming every Jew on the island. The next day he handed them a list containing only one name, his own. He loved them to the end, indeed. 

http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=5/2/2010

Frank L. Crouch, 2010
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Judas ("he", v. 31) has gone out into the "night" (v. 30) - a symbol of the dark deed he is about to commit.

http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/ceas5m.shtml

Chris Haslam
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John 13:31-35
John does not record the institution of the Lord's Supper per se.
Verses 1-2: "before the festival of the Passover ... during supper": For John, the meal was clearly not the Passover meal while according to Mark 14:12 it was on the day that Passover commenced. 

Verse 33: "Little children": This expression for Jesus' followers is only found here in the gospels. In the NRSV, the Greek word teknia is also translated as little children in 1 John 2:1, 12, 28; 3:7, 18; 4:4; 5:21. Tekna is translated as children in John 1:12; 11:52; 1 John 3:1, 2. 

http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/ceas5l.shtml

Chris Haslam
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...we have put our own understandings on what loving one another means. 
Usually it means being nice. It can often mean tolerating bad behaviour. And it almost always means don't do anything that would cause someone to be upset and leave. 
Which, when you ponder Jesus' life are three things "love as I love" does not mean. 

http://www.holytextures.com/2010/03/john-13-31-35-year-c-easter-5-sermon.html

David Ewart, 2010
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This is not about propaganda or strategic techniques, but about being. Real caring communicates. The rhetoric of caring and the strategic planning without it will be seen for what they are: selling a product because of vested interests of some kind other than love, such as winning a following for the divine entrepreneur, giving religious people a sense of power and achievement, growing numbers and guaranteeing the boss's favour. 'For the love of God' people will not be loved. There are respectable theologies to undergird all of these. But John's understanding is bafflingly simple and different from this: we find life and give life to others in relationship with the God who gives life and with each other in community. 

http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/LkEaster5.htm

William Loader
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One of my great complaints against some other Christians and pastors is that they may expect me to appreciate and value what they have to tell me, but they aren't willing to listen to or try to understand my point of view. Those are the believers that I have the most difficulties loving as Christ has commanded us to love.

http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/john13x31.htm

Brian Stoffregen
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Jesus does not "out" Judas; he leaves him free to do what he chooses. Jesus' choosing not to accuse and condemn Judas directly is a supreme sign of love for the one who has made him his enemy and who will take the decisive initiative in bringing about his death.

http://www.gotell.org/pdf/commentary/John/Jn13_31-35_commentary.pdf

Thomas E. Boomershine
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