{"id":9142,"date":"2025-12-31T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:11:55","slug":"he-is-coming-after-me-john-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=9142","title":{"rendered":"He is coming after me. John 1,27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span dir=\"auto\">In December 1992, an Italian missionary arrived in Singapore. On his way to his mission in the evening by taxi, he saw Christmas lights everywhere, with symbols of the Christian Christmas holiday. He told the taxi driver, \u201cI have never seen anything like it.\u201d Encouraged by this confession, the man remarked, \u201cFor us in Singapore, Christmas is the most important holiday of the year.\u201d \u201cBut what are you celebrating?\u201d asked the missionary, wanting to get to know the driver\u2019s thoughts. But the man did not answer. Even in Christian countries, where Christmas is celebrated as the Nativity of the Lord, some people do\u00a0not know the answer to this question or the meaning of Christmas. That is why the Church says, on the eighth day after Christmas, the following sentence of John the Baptist: \u201cAmong you stands one whom you do not know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">What does it mean to \u201cknow Jesus\u201d? In all ancient and modern languages, including biblical Hebrew and Greek, the verb &#8220;to know&#8221; has a wide range of meanings. It can mean visual knowledge of a person, knowledge of everything or almost everything related to him, and sharing life, feelings, joys, and suffering. For us to know Jesus, human knowledge and experience are not enough. Such knowledge is why the evangelists speak of angels who announced the mysterious birth, and\u2014as we will read in tomorrow&#8217;s Gospel\u2014the heavens will be opened, from which the Holy Spirit will descend, confirming Jesus&#8217; divine nature. Even if a person possessed all the knowledge found in the Gospels and other Scriptures about Jesus, they would still lack the gift of faith. Jesus will remain unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In June 1994, the police found Brother Ettore, a Camillian who lived for and with the poor, during a check near the central station in Milan, where drug addicts and prostitutes meet. The policeman asked for his documents, checked them, and said, \u201cBrother, you cannot stay here. What kind of religion is he to be here at this hour?\u201d Someone shouted, \u201cLeave him alone; he is Brother Ettore.\u201d He said with a smile, \u201cMr. Policeman. Our Lady fulfilled her duties, but allow me to fulfill mine too.\u201d The policeman objected, \u201cWhat is duty? Please leave!\u201d Although this episode did not occur on Christmas Eve, it convincingly shows that, for many Christians today, Christ remains someone and something unknown.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1992, an Italian missionary arrived in Singapore. On his way to his mission in the evening by taxi, he saw Christmas lights everywhere, with symbols of the Christian Christmas holiday. 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