Where does everything come to a climax? Did it happen in the last 200-300 years, as people devised and refined things like constitutional democracies, medicine, and television? Will it happen for you when you finally get that degree, or that job, or that perfect relationship? Will it happen when you get that house? That car? That new TV?
For the writer of John, there is one place – and only one place – where everything comes together. All of history was building up to a single moment – a moment when all people could finally “see” the son of God – lifted up in a single act that both exposed evil and displayed the depth of God’s love. The piercing question in John 12, and throughout the first 12 Chapters of John is this simple: Can you see it? Can you see the place where it all came together?
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