John 12:31-36
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31 Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world[a] will be driven out.(A) 32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”(B) 33 He said this indicating the kind of death he would die. 34 So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever.[b] Then how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”(C) 35 Jesus said to them, “The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going.(D) 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”(E)
Unbelief and Belief Among the Jews. After he had said this, Jesus left and hid from them.
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1 Timothy 1:11
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11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.(A)
Gratitude for God’s Mercy.[a]
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- 1:12–17 Present gratitude for the Christian apostleship leads Paul to recall an earlier time when he had been a fierce persecutor of the Christian communities (cf. Acts 26:9–11) until his conversion by intervention of divine mercy through the appearance of Jesus. This and his subsequent apostolic experience testify to the saving purpose of Jesus’ incarnation. The fact of his former ignorance of the truth has not kept the apostle from regarding himself as having been the worst of sinners (1 Tm 1:15). Yet he was chosen to be an apostle, that God might manifest his firm will to save sinful humanity through Jesus Christ (1 Tm 1:16). The recounting of so great a mystery leads to a spontaneous outpouring of adoration (1 Tm 1:17).
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