5th Week of Lent - Friday B
We continue with Jesus’ escalating exchange with his fellow Jews in the Gospel of John who had once come to believe in him, and now, in today’s gospel are vehemently proposing he be brutally executed. In the first reading from the Prophet Jeremiah, we have a prophecy which speaks of the dynamic that is thus unfolding: “All those who used to be my friend watched for my downfall, ‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error. Then we will master him and take our revenge!’” Jeremiah 20:10.