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<DIV><FONT size=4>The Reverend Joachim Alexandropoulos was an Orthodox priest on
a Greek isle in World War II, now memorialized at the Holocaust Museum in
Washington, DC. The Nazis came one day, demanding that he provide them, the next
day, with a list naming every Jew on the island. The next day he handed them a
list containing only one name, his own. He loved them to the end, indeed.</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=5/2/2010">http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=5/2/2010</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Frank L. Crouch, 2010</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Judas (“he”, v. </FONT><A
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size=4>30</FONT></A><FONT size=4>) – a symbol of the dark deed he is about to
commit.</FONT></DIV>
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href="http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/ceas5m.shtml">http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/ceas5m.shtml</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Chris Haslam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>John 13:31-35</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>John does not record the institution of the Lord’s Supper per se.</DIV>
<DIV><EM>Verses 1-2</EM>: “before the festival of the Passover ... during
supper”: For John, the meal was clearly not the Passover meal while according to
Mark 14:12 it was on the day that Passover commenced. </DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Verse 33</EM>: “Little children”: This expression for Jesus’ followers
is only found here in the gospels. In the NRSV, the Greek word <EM>teknia</EM>
is also translated as <EM>little children</EM> in 1 John 2:1, 12, 28; 3:7, 18;
4:4; 5:21. <EM>Tekna</EM> is translated as <EM>children</EM> in John 1:12;
11:52; 1 John 3:1, 2. </DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Chris Haslam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=3><FONT size=4>...we have
put our own understandings on what loving one another means.</FONT>
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<DIV>Usually it means being nice. It can often mean tolerating bad behaviour.
And it almost always means don't do anything that would cause someone to be
upset and leave. </DIV>
<DIV>Which, when you ponder Jesus' life are three things "love as I love" does
not mean. </DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.holytextures.com/2010/03/john-13-31-35-year-c-easter-5-sermon.html">http://www.holytextures.com/2010/03/john-13-31-35-year-c-easter-5-sermon.html</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT size=4>David Ewart, 2010</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>This is not about propaganda or strategic techniques, but
about being. Real caring communicates. The rhetoric of caring and the strategic
planning without it will be seen for what they are: selling a product because of
vested interests of some kind other than love, such as winning a following for
the divine entrepreneur, giving religious people a sense of power and
achievement, growing numbers and guaranteeing the boss’s favour. ‘For the love
of God’ people will not be loved. There are respectable theologies to undergird
all of these. But John’s understanding is bafflingly simple and different from
this: we find life and give life to others in relationship with the God who
gives life and with each other in community.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/LkEaster5.htm"><FONT
size=4>http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/LkEaster5.htm</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>William Loader</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>One of my great complaints against some other Christians and
pastors is that they may expect me to appreciate and value what they have to
tell me, but they aren't willing to listen to or try to understand my point of
view. Those are the believers that I have the most difficulties loving as Christ
has commanded us to love.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/john13x31.htm">http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/john13x31.htm</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Brian Stoffregen<BR>- - - - -</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Jesus does not "out" Judas; he leaves him free to do what he
chooses. Jesus' choosing not to accuse and condemn Judas directly is a supreme
sign of love for the one who has made him his enemy and who will take the
decisive initiative in bringing about his death.</DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.gotell.org/pdf/commentary/John/Jn13_31-35_commentary.pdf">http://www.gotell.org/pdf/commentary/John/Jn13_31-35_commentary.pdf</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Thomas E. Boomershine</DIV>
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