“I have told you, and you do not believe.” (John 10:25) What are we to make of Jesus Christ? Well, in today’s gospel reading we are confronted with a perhaps startling reality, the mystery of unbelief. In John’s gospel, this unbelief is characteristic of both the world and the Jews. Indeed, John tipped us off right at the very beginning: “He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept … [Read more...]