No really. The one anothers you know.

We think of this command of Jesus to love one another, I think, as going out and loving everyone, loving the whole world, loving the unlovely. And we have these big sermons about loving.

But Jesus was sitting in a room with 11 guys around a table. They all knew each other. They were annoyed by each other.

We know that. At almost this same time, James and John had made a request of Jesus that made all the rest upset.

And we know that they were human beings. Humans who have all the ann...