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Juan 10

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1 De cierto, de cierto os digo: El que no entra por la puerta en el corral de las ovejas, mas sube por otra parte, el tal es ladrón y robador.

2 Mas el que entra por la puerta, el pastor de las ovejas es.

3 A éste abre el portero, y las ovejas oyen su voz; y a sus ovejas llama por nombre, y las saca.

4 Y cuando ha sacado fuera sus ovejas, va delante de ellas; y las ovejas le siguen, porque conocen su voz.

5 Mas al extraño no seguirán, antes huirán de él, porque no conocen la voz de los extraños.

6 Esta parábola les dijo Jesús; mas ellos no entendieron qué era lo que les decía.

7 Volvió, pues, Jesús a decirles: De cierto, de cierto os digo: YO SOY la puerta de las ovejas.

8 Todos los que antes de mí vinieron, ladrones son y robadores; mas no los oyeron las ovejas.

9 YO SOY la puerta; el que por mí entrare, será salvo; y entrará, y saldrá, y hallará pastos.

10 El ladrón no viene sino para hurtar, y matar, y destruir las ovejas ; yo he venido para que tengan vida, y para que la tengan en abundancia.

11 YO SOY el buen pastor; el buen pastor su alma da por sus ovejas.

12 Mas el asalariado, y que no es pastor, de quien no son propias las ovejas, ve al lobo que viene, y deja las ovejas, y huye, y el lobo las arrebata, y esparce las ovejas.

13 Así que, el asalariado, huye, porque es asalariado, y las ovejas no le pertenecen.

14 YO SOY el buen Pastor; y conozco mis ovejas , y las mías me conocen.

15 Como el Padre me conoce, y yo conozco al Padre; y pongo mi alma por las ovejas.

16 También tengo otras ovejas que no son de este corral, aquellas también me conviene traer, y oirán mi voz; y se hará un corral, y habrá un pastor.

17 Por eso me ama el Padre, porque yo pongo mi alma, para volverla a tomar.

18 Nadie me la quita, mas yo la pongo de mí mismo. Tengo poder para ponerla, y tengo poder para volverla a tomar. Este mandamiento recibí de mi Padre.

19 Y volvió a haber disensión entre los judíos por estas palabras.

20 Y muchos de ellos decían: Demonio tiene, y está fuera de sí; ¿para qué le oís?

21 Decían otros: Estas palabras no son de endemoniado; ¿puede un demonio abrir los ojos de los ciegos?

22 Y se hacían las Encenias (dedicación) en Jerusalén; y era invierno;

23 Y Jesús andaba en el templo por el portal de Salomón.

24 Y le rodearon los judíos y le dijeron: ¿Hasta cuándo quitas nuestra alma? Si tú eres el Cristo, dínoslo abiertamente.

25 Les respondió Jesús: Os lo he dicho, y no creéis; las obras que yo hago en nombre de mi Padre, éstas dan testimonio de mí;

26 mas vosotros no creéis, porque no sois de mis ovejas, como os he dicho.

27 Mis ovejas oyen mi voz, y yo las conozco, y me siguen;

28 y yo les doy vida eterna y no perecerán para siempre, y nadie las arrebatará de mi mano.

29 Mi Padre que me las dio, mayor que todos es y nadie las puede arrebatar de la mano de mi Padre.

30 Yo y el Padre una cosa somos.

31 Entonces volvieron a tomar piedras los judíos para apedrearle.

32 Les respondió Jesús: Muchas buenas obras os he mostrado de mi Padre, ¿por cuál obra de esas me apedreáis?

33 Le respondieron los judíos, diciendo: Por la buena obra no te apedreamos, sino por la blasfemia; y porque tú, siendo hombre, te haces Dios.

34 Les respondió Jesús: ¿No está escrito en vuestra ley: Yo dije, dioses sois?

35 Si dijo, dioses, a aquellos a los cuales fue hecha palabra de Dios (y la Escritura no puede ser quebrantada),

36 ¿a quien el Padre santificó y envió al mundo, vosotros decís: Tú blasfemas, porque dije: Hijo de Dios soy?

37 Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me creáis.

38 Mas si las hago, y aunque a mí no me creáis, creed a las obras; para que conozcáis y creáis que el Padre es en mí, y yo en él.

39 Por eso procuraban otra vez prenderle; mas él se salió de sus manos;

40 Y se volvió al otro lado del Jordán, a aquel lugar donde primero había estado bautizando Juan; y permaneció allí.

41 Y muchos venían a él, y decían que Juan, a la verdad, ninguna señal hizo; mas todo lo que Juan dijo de éste, era verdad.

42 Y muchos creyeron allí en él.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #618

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618. And no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand. This symbolically means that no other Christians could understand and so acknowledge out of love and faith that the Lord alone is God of heaven and earth but those received by the Lord into this new heaven.

The song symbolizes an acknowledgment and glorification of the Lord as being God of heaven and earth (nos. 279, 617). To learn means, symbolically, to perceive inwardly in oneself that something is the case, which is to understand and so to accept and acknowledge. Someone who learns without perceiving learns and does not learn, because he does not retain what he has learned. The hundred and forty-four thousand mean people who acknowledge the Lord alone as God of heaven and earth (no. 612:1-4).

Other Christians were unable to learn that song, that is, to acknowledge that the Lord alone is God of heaven and earth, because from early childhood they had had impressed on them that there were three persons in the Godhead, each distinct from the others. For the doctrine of the trinity 1 contains the statement, "There is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit," and also, "The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God." And even though they find it added there that the three are one, still in their thinking they divide the Divine essence into three, despite the fact that it cannot be divided.

For that reason they also approach the Father, because He is first in order. And church leaders moreover taught them to pray to the Father to send the Holy Spirit for the sake of the Son. This entrenched in their thinking the idea of three persons, and they could not then think of the Son as God, on a par with the Father and one with the Father, but thought of the Son as being on a par with any other person, even though He alone as to His humanity is the embodiment of righteousness and is called "Jehovah our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16).

[2] Because of that idea in their thinking, it came about that they could not comprehend how the Lord as one born in the world could be God of heaven and earth, and still less be alone God, despite how often they heard and read all those passages we cited in no. 613 above, including the following there:

"All things that the Father has are Mine." (John 16:15)

"He who sees Me sees Him who sent Me." (John 12:45)

...the Father had given all things into (the Son's) hands... (John 13:3)

"Father..., ...You have given (Me) authority over all flesh... All that is Mine are Yours, and what are Yours are Mine...." (John 17:1-3, 10)

"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth." (Matthew 28:18)

There is the further fact that He was conceived of Jehovah as His Father, and therefore that His soul came from Him (Luke 1:34-35, 38). He possesses therefore the Divine essence. Many similar statements are found in addition elsewhere. That these statements are said in reference to the Lord born in the world is something everyone can see. As for example, that He and the Father are one, and that He is in the Father and the Father in Him. Or that whoever sees Him, sees the Father. (See John 10:28-38; 14:6-11.)

Even though those Christians hear and read these things, still they cannot let go of the idea they have conceived from childhood and later had affirmed by teachers - an idea that so closed up their rationality that they could not see, that is, could not understand these words of the Lord:

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)

He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber... I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved... (John 10:1, 9)

[3] They also could not see that the Lord glorified His humanity, that is, that He united it to the Divinity of the Father, namely to the Divinity that He had in Him from conception, in order that the human race might be united to God the Father in Him and through Him. This was the reason for the Lord's advent into the world, and for the glorification of His humanity, as is plainly taught in John 14, 15, 17. For He says,

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (John 14:20)

He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch... withered... into the fire... (John 15:5-6)

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth... that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You..., I in them and You in Me... (John 17:19, 21, 23, 26)

See also John 6:56, and elsewhere.

It is clearly apparent from these passages that the Lord's advent into the world and the glorification of His humanity had as a goal the conjunction of people with God the Father in the Lord and through Him, thus that it is He who is to be approached.

This the Lord also confirmed by His saying so many times that people must believe in Him to have eternal life (see no. 553 above).

[4] Who cannot see that the Lord said all these things about Himself in His humanity, and that He never would have said, or could have said, that He was in people and people in Him, and that they must believe in Him to have eternal life, unless His humanity was Divine?

To ask the Father in the Lord's name 2 does not mean to go directly to God the Father, neither does it mean to ask for the sake of the Son, but it means to go to the Lord, and to the Father through Him, because the Father is present in the Son, and they are one, as the Lord Himself teaches. This is the symbolic meaning of "in His name," as can also be seen from the following:

...he who does not believe (in the Son) is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17-18)

...these things are written that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. (John 20:31)

(Jesus) said..., "Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me." (Luke 9:48)

"Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do...." (John 14:13-14)

And so on in other places, where something in the name of the Lord is mentioned: Matthew 7:22; 18:5, 20; 19:29; 23:39; Mark 9:37; 16:17; Luke 13:35; 19:38; 24:47; John 1:12; 2:23; 5:43; 12:13; 15:16; 16:23-24, 26-27; 17:6.

The symbolism of the name of God, and that the Father's name is the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, may be seen in nos. 81, 165, 584 above.

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1. I.e., the Athanasian Creed.

2John 15:16; 16:23

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.