--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/13/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/13/11 --- [![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/2011/04/12/daily-readings-reflection-for-41311#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/13/11 Apr 12, 2011 9:00:55 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary 254. Daniel 3:14-20. 91-92.95.  Resp. Daniel 3:52-56. John 8:31-42 [Wednesday's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/041311.shtml) Did you know that the often cited expression, "the Truth shall set you free" comes from the great Gospel of St.John the Evangelist?  It is well known as an expression, but many of it just take it for a "truism."  That is far from the contextual and theological meaning that Jesus intends in this passage.  And John confirms the authentic meaning of it as he continues his own narrative about Jesus and who he is and how he speaks and heals. In our culture we look on truth as confirmation of a facts, ideas, abstractions or even correct interpretation of documents.  Since we are a litgiousness society this word is often used in a way far from the actual Gospel meaning of it and its meaning in the Old Testament.  Indeed, the word for truth in the Hebrew Bible is "emeth" and it connotes a deep foundation in reality--God's creative world and universe and everything that is in it. Nature, spiritual beings like angels and humankind is part of the reality of "emeth."  Our evangelist John is considered to be the theologian par excellence among the four evangelists. He is giving us the passage in which Jesus makes this statement, and "the truth will set you free." The context for John is always the centering on the person of Jesus who has more identity names than the other Gospels.  When Jesus says "I AM" he is speaking about his being the Truth. The word "Amen" is derived from the word that connotes "truth" in the language Jesus used in the synagogue and Temple. "Emunah" is the action word for truth and Jesus does more than personify it. He is Truth.  His teachings, his preaching, his works of curing and raising someone from the dead are part of his nature as the Truth.  As Fr. Prvost tells us, "In the Bible truth never refers to an abstraction, to truth as an idea, but always to the concrete soldity of things, to the trustworthiness of the word given, and to the reliability of persons." The Old Testament makes use of "emeth" or truth some 330 times and we pray each day with our Amen to most of the prayers we hear or use.  It is John, however, who gives us the Person of Jesus as the living Truth of God, because he came from God and was sent from God to us. Jesus is speaking the truth to us each time we open the Gospels or listen to the reading of the Gospel at the Mass.  In St. John's Gospel Jesus is both the foundation and reality of truth as a human being who has pitched his tent among us as the first Apostle sent from God.  We may wish to set aside some moments this day to reread the Prologue of John (John 1:1-18) which ends with the word TRUTH.  Uniting the last verse to the greatest of Incarnational texts we have : "And the Word (Truth) was made flesh and dwelt among us ( and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father), full of grace and TRUTH." ( John 1:14 and 18).  Amen! (Truth, you better believe it!) Amen. P.S. 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