\u201cAs crucifixion nears, Jesus gives his remaining disciples a commandment related to the time they’ve spent together. They’re to love one another as Jesus has loved them\u2026 How did Jesus love them? They\u2019ll have to draw from their encounters. The acts of love and healing, the teaching, the signs and wonders\u2014all of it needs to be recalled\u2026 They could keep each other close by emulating the one who kept them close.\u201d
\u2014 Commentary by Rev. T. Denise Anderson on John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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\u201cAs crucifixion nears, Jesus gives his remaining disciples a commandment related to the time they’ve spent together. They’re to love one another as Jesus has loved them\u2026 How did Jesus love them? They\u2019ll have to draw from their encounters. The acts of love and healing, the teaching, the signs and wonders\u2014all of it needs to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/44.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-Kk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}