Do you also want to leave?

26 AUGUST (Jn 6,60-69)

COne of Israel, apostatized” (Is 1, 4). “Shout with exultation, O city of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel!” (Is 12, 6). “To whom can you liken me as an equal? says the Holy One” (Is 40, 25). “Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go” (Is 48, 17). “For he who has become your husband is your Maker; his name is the Lord of hosts; Your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the earth” (Is 54, 5). I will not give vent to my blazing anger, I will not destroy Ephraim again; For I am God and not man, the Holy One present among you; I will not let the flames consume you” (Hosea 11, 9).

Jesus is the Holy One of God, hi Messiah, Redeemer, and the Saviour of mankind. Since he is the Holy One of God he cannot have a false, partly true word, true for one day and false for another, real for one thing and false for another. The truth is the foundation of the word of Jesus, when he proclaims the Gospel and invites people to conversion, when he commands the whole of creation and this obeys him, but also when he promises something that to the human mind is always impossible, unrealizable. Jesus cannot promise something that is not realizable. He cannot by nature of holiness. Jesus is naturally holy, and therefore, naturally true. His word is always most high truth.

“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” (Mk 1, 24). “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” (Lk 4, 34). We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” (Jn 6, 69). “You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.” (At 3, 14). “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write this: ” ‘The holy one, the true, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall close, who closes and no one shall open” (Rev 3, 7) Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: “You are just, O Holy One, who are and who were, in passing this sentence” (Rev 16, 5).

Jesus by nature cannot betray the truth, cannot accommodate it, cannot make concessions on it, cannot modify, alter, change, and deny. It is his own nature, and his own life. Nature, life, truth, and word are one thing in him. Today, Peter confesses, and shout this truth to the whole world, so that it welcomes it.

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.” As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, and Saints convince us of this truth.