The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

Genesis 7.1–5, 11–18; 8.6–18; 9.8–13
Acts 9.36–43
John 10.22–30

Today’s passage from St John’s Gospel is part of the escalating conflict between Jesus and ‘the Jews’. From the magnificent opening verses of the Gospel, setting out the cosmic significance of the coming of Jesus, John has hammered home the point that there can be no doubt about who Jesus is. His authoritative personality, his miracles and his teaching all make it clear that Jesus and the Father are one. When, here in verse 25, Jesus says that he has already told them who he is we, the readers, know that he has indeed answered their question in all that he has said and done since his coming...