In John 13:18-38, we pick up the conversation between Jesus and his disciples over dinner. After he had washed their feet, he announced that one of them would betray him. Once Judas had gone out into the night, Jesus gave his followers of every age the New Commandment: to love each other as he loved us.
God used the sinful actions of humans to fulfill his will to provide the innocent one to take the place of the guilty.
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.
Although the original readers of Peter’s letter were experiencing relatively mild opposition from their neighbors, in I Peter 3:8-22, he wanted to prepare them...