This morning’s Gospel reading is John 13:31–33a, 34–35:
When Judas had left them, Jesus said,
“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Jesus commands us to go love one another. But what does that actually mean?
We have discussed the variety of meanings that have fallen into the catch-all English word “love” a number of times. In brief, the Scriptures use love where the original language likely used other and more specific forms. The Greek language has at least four words for…
