![]() ![]() … But now I am coming to you … I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. “I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you and they have believed that you sent me. He prayed not just for his beloved disciples, but also for those who would believe in him because of their words. Jesus himself put it this way in the earnest conversation with his Father that dark night of his betrayal in Gethsemane. ![]() By his word, Jesus in fact bestows his Spirit and life. ![]() Because his words are spirit and life, as Peter confessed, they enact reality-they actually do something. They don’t need to hear merely words about Jesus, but the words from Jesus. The words of Jesus-that’s what people need to hear. ![]()
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