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In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, two well-respected New Testament scholars interpret the Gospel of John in its historical and literary setting—and in light of the Church’s doctrinal, liturgical, and spiritual tradition. They unpack the wisdom of the fourth Gospel for the intellectual and spiritual transformation of its readers and connect the Gospel with a range of...

of his response, Jesus in a certain sense distances himself from an exclusively mother-son relationship, as he is recorded to have done in the †Synoptics.20 Yet through the culturally surprising address of his mother as “woman,” Jesus also reestablishes the relationship between them on a different basis: discipleship and the accomplishment of God’s saving work. In the second part of his response, Jesus tells his mother, My hour has not yet come. This is the first time that Jesus speaks of his †hour,
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