| John 1:29-34 |
Friends, today’s Gospel contains the first biblical presentation of the Trinity. It happened during Jesus’ baptism. The Gospel of John doesn’t include all the details, but we learn in another Gospel that after Jesus was baptized, the sky opened and John the Baptist saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and hover over him. With that, a voice from the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” This is the first time in the Bible that the tri-personhood of God is on display, making it one of the most important theophanies in Scripture. In love, the Father sends the Son into godforsakenness, into the muddy waters of our own sin, and the Spirit is the love that connects the Father and Son, the love in which the Father sends and in which the Son is sent. So now we see that the God who is just and demanding (and those both remain in place) is, through and through, love. Bishop Robert Barron |
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