A new revelation to the Patriarch Jacob The Lord appears to Jacob in the new circumstances and new stage of his life. Jacob is coming back home after his escape and after years of work in foreign land, after his reconciliation with his brother. Jacob is now independent, father of…
Spiritual experience in the Ps 42 and 43 Three conversations with the soul (= with myself) and with God end with an encouragement: “Hope in God!” (42:6.12; 43:5) God is present in these Psalms, he is the center of the prayer: there is 17 times Elohim in the text. This…
Jesus is connecting earth and heaven Jesus is talking to Moses and Elijah and in this way he confirms his proclaimed fulfillment of the Law (Moses) and of the Prophets (Elijah). Both are deeply related to the transfiguration on the mountain because both of them received a revelation of God’s…
John 11 If we read the beginning of John 11:5 Martha is parallel to John: she is the also the disciple Jesus loved. She is the person we can thank for one of the important revelations Jesus is giving about himself. In the whole series of “I am…” there is…
