{"id":11519,"date":"2015-09-26T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T13:45:13","slug":"reflection-on-jn-2117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/reflection-on-jn-2117\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on Jn 21:17"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>He said to him the third time, \u201cSimon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?\u201d Peter was grieved because <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>He said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love Me?\u201d and he said to Him, \u201cLord, You know all things; <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>You know that I love You.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed My sheep.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Feed-My-sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11533\" title=\"Feed My sheep\" src=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Feed-My-sheep-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Feed-My-sheep-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Feed-My-sheep.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The whole chapter 21, the last one in the Gospel of the Apostle John, describes the encounter of the risen Christ with the apostles. The event took place in Galilee, and it was the third time that the apostles encountered the risen Christ. There were seven of the apostles present, among them were Peter and John. Jesus spoke above all with Peter. He asked Peter three times if he loved Him. In Greek, the word \u201clove\u201d is expressed by terms \u201cagape\u201d and \u201cphilia\u201d. Agape is selfless love, the love of God towards us and the love which He wants us to show towards Him. Philia is human love \u2013 between parents and children, or love for the nation\u2026 Love between a man and a woman is expressed in Greek by the term \u201ceros\u201d. Unfortunately, the Germanic and Slavonic languages have only one term \u201clove\u201d for all these meanings. At the present time, when the world is flooded by a wave of sexual impurity and perversion, one needs to discern true values and to call them by their proper names. The term denoting selfless and self-sacrificing love is \u201cagape\u201d. The contrary of love is self-love, egoism.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus asks Peter: <em>\u201cAgapas me?\u201d<\/em> Do you love Me with divine self-sacrificing love? Peter answers: <em>\u201cPhilo se.\u201d<\/em> I love You with human love. Jesus asks Peter three times and Peter answers the same for the third time, grieved and with tears in his eyes: \u201cLord, I cannot but love You with human love (philia).\u201d Jesus accepts this sincere confession and immediately speaks about his martyr\u2019s death when human love (philia) will finally be transformed by God\u2019s grace into agape \u2013 divine love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus asks every genuine Christian: <em>\u201cDo you love Me? Are you willing even to sacrifice your life for My sake?\u201d<\/em> Jesus asks you too: <em>\u201cAre you willing to endure humiliation and suffering, or even physical death for My sake?\u201d<\/em> Think what you would like to promise Jesus, and know that Jesus takes you seriously. Say your <em>\u201cYES\u201d<\/em> to Him!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Reflection_on_Jn_2117.doc\">Reflection on Jn 21:17<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said to him the third time, \u201cSimon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?\u201d Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love Me?\u201d and he said to Him, \u201cLord, You know all things; You know that I love You.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed My sheep.\u201d The whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}