Daily Reflection Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, ‘ I have shown you many good works from the father. For which of these are you going to stone me?’ The Jews answered, ‘ It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God?’ Jesus answered, ‘Is it not written in your law, “I said, you are gods”? If those to whom the word of God came were called “gods” -  and the scripture cannot be annulled - can you say that the one whom the father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, “I am God son”? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.’ Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.
 
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many came to him, and they were saying, ‘John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.’ And many believed in him there.
 

• The miracles that Jesus was working showed that there was something special about him. They were what the Father had given him to do. They were an indication of a mysterious relationship that the Father is in him and he is in the Father. This knowledge called for wonder and astonishment. Aren't we all quick to reject and slow to learn?