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The Gospel of John, Part 24
Chapter 20-21
Talk by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
January 13, 2026

Description: 
Metropolitan Jonah discusses the Gospel of John chapters 20--21: the Resurrection, the ordination of the Apostles, and Christ's post-Resurrection appearances. Topics discussed include: 
(1) The significance of the folded head clothes as an argument against Christ's body being stolen; 
(2) What the Apostle John believed when he first saw the grave clothes; 
(3) The ordination of the Apostles ("sent ones") and their receiving the Holy Spirit by being breathed on by Christ. And the later restoration by the Church of the Old Testament use of anointing (by Chrism), for receiving the Holy Spirit and Ordination. To be an anointed one is to be a "little Christ", a Christian; 
(4) Peter's three-fold restoration, undoing his three-fold denial; 
(5) The significance of the 153 large fish; 
(6) Distinguishing James brother of John and James brother of the Lord (James the Just, author of the Epistle of James, and Bishop of Jerusalem, presiding over the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, composer of the Liturgy of St James).