Also St. Margaret’s Forres
Today's Gospel comes as a brief moment of relief amid the tension and foreboding of St. Mark's Gospel narrative. The episode is set in Holy Week, after Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, to cries of Hosanna. Before and after it we read only of bitter confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish authorities.
We’ve just heard the second in our sequence of four Sunday Gospels taken from John Chapter 6: the Bread of Life Discourse. There’s something entirely special about the sixth Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. I’ve heard it said that if you took away all the rest of the New Testament, but left this, you’d have enough.
Amen Amen I say to you (v. 26). That is: Listen very carefully to what I’m going to say. The words I have for you now are very deliberately chosen, and they bear with them divine authority. They are words of truth, and if you listen you will find life in them. They are words spoken by a man - precisely by “the Son of Man” (v. 27) - but they are words also of divine revelation.
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