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„Now I give you a new command: love one another. AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, SO YOU MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35)
How did Jesus love his disciples and why did he love them? He could not have been attracted by their natural qualities. There was an infinite distance between them and him. He was knowledge, infinite Wisdom, they were poor fishermen, ignorant and filled with earthly thoughts. Nevertheless, Jesus calls them his friends, his brothers (cf. John 15:15). He wants them to reign with him in the kingdom of his Father, and to open this kingdom to them, he wants to die on the cross, for he said: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
When the Lord commanded his people to love their neighbor as themselves (cf. Lev 19:18), he was not yet on earth. He knew well the extent to which a person loves themselves and could not therefore ask his creatures for a greater love for their neighbor. But when Jesus gave his apostles a new commandment, HIS COMMANDMENT (cf. John 15:12), as he goes on to say, he is no longer speaking about loving one’s neighbor as oneself, but as He, Jesus, loved him, as he will love him until the end of ages...
Lord, I know that you do not command anything impossible. You know better than I do my weakness, my imperfection; you know well that I could never love my sisters as you love them, if you yourself, Jesus, did not again love them in me. Because you wanted to grant me this grace, you gave me a new commandment. – How I love it! It gives me the certainty that it is your will to love in me all those whom you command me to love!... Yes, I feel it when I show love; it is Jesus who acts in me.
(Autobiographical writings, Vimperk 1991, p. 214–215)
