Anyone notice that John is the only one that refers to John being “the disciple whom Jesus loved?” None of the others refer to him as that. Seems a bit…shady, if you ask me. If I were to start referring to myself as “the one Jesus loves” people might be a bit taken aback. It’s true. Jesus does love me but referring to myself might make people wonder about me a bit.
Also, what’s with him pointing out that he won the race to the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. Did that really need to be said?
OK. And why does Thomas get stuck with the moniker of “Doubting Thomas?” Thomas was an apostle who evangelized the world and was martyred in the name of Christ. But what is he called? “Doubting Thomas.” Seems pretty rough. Thomas should’ve hired some kind of pr firm for rebranding.
I mean, Peter denied Jesus three times but he doesn’t get tagged with “Denying Peter.” And Peter was even called Satan once BY JESUS!!! But that moniker didn’t stick. Seems pretty tough on Thomas, if you ask me.
April 18, 2022 at 8:57 am
It seems that Peter was always slow in comprehending everything.
No surprise to me that John would have beat him to the tomb.
Peter eventually got with the program. Like us, though,…it took a while.
April 18, 2022 at 9:18 am
What’s really shady is in your cartoon Peter is black and John is Irish. But I guess that explains why Jesus loved John more. It does not explain how John runs faster though.
April 19, 2022 at 4:24 am
Haven’t you cut it off too soon? John’s mention of his win is so as to better establish who the top dog is – who the rock is on which Jesus made clear He will build his Church. For all John having arrived first, John waits for Peter to enter .
April 21, 2022 at 9:53 am
“The disciple who cross -trained”? Probably less trendy. On the other hand, the domain name is still open
April 29, 2022 at 10:54 am
One thing St. John never does in his Gospel is deny that Jesus loved all the Apostles. (Seriously, were you never made to memorize John 3:16?)
St. John calls himself “the beloved disciple” for EXACTLY the same reason St. Paul calls himself “the chief of sinners”. They were aware, theoretically and by limited observation, of the sins of others, but they were IMMEDIATELY AWARE BY EXPERIENCE of their own sins. St. Paul definitely gets pretty hot about the sins of other people, but he knows his own sins too well to think he is better than they are. It is because St. John finds his own sinfulness so obvious that the fact that Jesus still loves him is for him a matter of unending astonishment. He is not “the disciple who earned Jesus’ love”; he is the disciple whom Jesus loved, confounding all rational expectation — a love that is every bit as miraculous as the Resurrection itself.