Sunday17th March 2024
John 12:20-33 – The Hour Has Come In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus proclaims for the first time in John, that ‘the hour has come’. Jesus will be lifted up from the earth and will draw all to himself. The hour of Jesus is intimately associated with his death. The death of Jesus on the cross is the place where he is ‘lifted up’, both physically by being raised off the ground on a stake, and spiritually, lifted up in exaltation,…