--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/9/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/9/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/04/08/daily-readings-reflection-for-4911#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/9/11 Apr 8, 2011 10:43:38 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 250. Jeremiah 11:18-20. Psalm 7:2-3.9-10.11-12. John 7:40-53 [Readings for Saturday](http://usccb.org/nab/040911.shtml) Just as we have many images of Jesus in our personal attachment to him and our devotion, so, too, during the time of the writing of John's Gospel we have insights from the author into how different persons and groups saw Jesus or had opinions about who he is. Let us say, they were divided in this dimension of imaging Jesus or knowing about him. We are given better insights into these deep feelings in the Fourth Gospel than in the Synoptics. John not only is a master theologian, he also is a great narrator and tells us more about the landscape of Judah and Jerusalem than the other evangelists. The Pharisees, the temple guards, Pilate, and the crowds are clearly depicted in his narrative passages. We have evidence of this in today's Gospel which is not a discourse of Jesus but a third person narrative. The writer knows what he has described in symbolism but he also recalls where he has mentioned people and places earlier and then brings them back whenever he is speaking of a later period in Jesus' life. We have at least two stages being narrated--the first coming from the actual circumstances that surround Jesus in his time and then the self-evident description of what is happening during the time of the writer in the separation of the nascent Christian churches from the mother Synagogues from which they came. Tension and division are presented. Nicodemus is one who appears again and this time it is during the day. He asks the leaders to be reasonable about this person Jesus and to give him a fair trial. He has made some progress in his imaging of Jesus. We will see him once more in this Gospel after the crucifxion. So John does give us historical information that is being confirmed by archaeolgists, for example, in the pool with five porticoes, in the contact a disciple had with the inner circle of leaders, etc. The historical truth of the Gospel shines through the Fourth Gospel together with more profound reflection upon who Jesus really is. Without John one could argue rationally against the divinity of Jesus as some do. With John we have the most important statement in the New Testament, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." We also recall that the statement and "The Word was God" is at the beginning of the Prologue. John's knowledge of the holy city of Jerusalem and of the Feasts of the Jewish people is more accurate. He may also disagree with the date of the Last Supper in comparing his narrative with that of the Synoptics. Jesus is mixing with all sorts of people in this Gospel including the disrespectful comment of the reiligious leaders against the ordinary people whom they call this "people of the earth" --those whose opinion counts for nothing when it comes to religious thinking! How does all of this help us on our journeying with Jesus? We probably feel the same divsions, differences, opinions, and hostility as Jesus and his apostles were feeling. So in this sense, our journey with Jesus up to Jerusalem for his last days are somewhat similar in our own daily experiences with the web and woof of life. "And the beat goes on!" 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