Day 8 of 21
John 8
Jesus forgives a woman caught in adultery, proclaims himself the light of the world, and climactically declares, 'Before Abraham was, I am.'
Continuing the Tabernacles debates, Jesus' claims escalate until his opponents take up stones against him.
“Our Lord at the time of His passion used to spend the day in Jerusalem, preaching in the temple, and performing miracles, and return in the evening to Bethany, where He lodged with the sisters of Lazarus. Thus on the last day of the feast, having, according to His wont, preached the whole day in the temple, in the evening He went to the mount of Olives.”
“And where ought Christ to teach, except on the mount of Olives; on the mount of ointment, on the mount of chrism. For the name Christ is from chrism, chrism being the Greek word for unction. He has anointed us, for wrestling with the devil.”
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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