“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27)
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus offers us his own peace in our troubled hearts. But his heart was troubled too in the previous chapters: peace did not come to him effortlessly.
Earlier he had wrestled with the self-sacrifice he was called to make: "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name" (12:27-28).
