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Poco antes de su muerte, Jesús le expresaba a un grupo de sus seguidores y seguidoras que hubiera querido decirles muchas más cosas, pero que todavía no eran capaces de sobrellevarlas ni de aguantarlas (v. 12). Sin embargo, no había de terminar allí la historia. Les (y nos) prometió el Espíritu de verdad (v. 13) … Continue reading “San Juan 16:12-15 Comentario por Nancy Elizabeth Bedford”

Este es el segundo discurso sobre el Paracleto en los discursos de despedida de Jesús a sus discípulos (el primero nos tocó la semana pasada para el Domingo de Pentecostés en Juan 14:15-17, 25-26). Nos llama la atención sobre la relación íntima entre el trabajo y las palabras de Jesús y el trabajo y las … Continue reading “San Juan 16:12-15 Comentario por Efraín Agosto”

There is always a degree of finagling that goes on when any biblical text is called upon to support a doctrine or understanding of the church. When that doctrine, in this case a way of understanding God, is as complex and counter intuitive as the Trinity, much is demanded of the preacher’s ingenuity. And when … Continue reading “John 16:12-15 Commentary by Sarah Henrich”

I suspect that most in your congregation would not appreciate a sermon that began like this: “There are things that are essential to our faith, but I can’t speak about them because you would not be able to understand. They are far too complicated and way over your head.” Really? Of course, the reality is that there … Continue reading “John 16:12-15 Commentary by Lucy Lind Hogan”

John 16:12-15 begins with Jesus telling his disciples, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (v. 12). What Jesus says here seems to contradict what he had just told the disciples in 15:15: “I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.” … Continue reading “John 16:12-15 Commentary by Gilberto Ruiz”

Cuando pensamos en la venida del Espíritu Santo a aquellos 120 fieles en Jerusalén (Hch 1:15), pensamos en el relato del evangelista Lucas en su libro de los Hechos (cap. 2). Lo que es más, Lucas no sólo narra el portentoso suceso pentecostal, sino que narra la profecía de Jesús a sus discípulos sobre la … Continue reading “San Juan 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos”

En la noche en que Jesús va a ser entregado se reúne con sus discípulos para la cena de despedida y, como es típico del evangelio joánico, Jesús elabora un discurso en el que presenta de nuevo a sus discípulos las dificultades a las que se van a enfrentar. Bien conocido es que Juan presenta … Continue reading “San Juan 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 Comentario por Luis Menéndez Antuña”

For the early Christian communities, Pentecost marked a liminal moment when people’s gaze shifted from looking back at their memories of Jesus, to looking ahead to what they must trust to sustain their life after his death and resurrection had passed into history and memory. That same sense of being on the boundary between phases … Continue reading “John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Commentary by Sharon H. Ringe”

Perhaps nothing breathes more strongly than the promise and presence of the Spirit in John’s so-called “farewell discourse” of Jesus (John chapters 14-17), portions of which have occupied our attention during the last several Sundays of Easter. Now it is Pentecost. Pentecost stands as the culmination of Easter’s reflection on the promise of the resurrection … Continue reading “John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Commentary by James Boyce”

The temptation when preaching Pentecost is to make the sermon a witness to something that happened. When we do this, we simply retell the story of Acts 2 and reconstruct the account of the Holy Spirit’s coming to the early disciples. Then we describe an event that marked the founding of the church and the … Continue reading “John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Commentary by Ginger Barfield”