he revealed himself to us in exceedingly vulnerable ways: “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30); “I am the bread of life” (John 6:35); “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). It is easy for us to hear these as words of comfort and calling. But what did it mean to Jesus to say them? What emotion coursed through him as he revealed these deeply intimate parts of who he saw himself to be? These words were not mere declarations of truth. They were acts of vulnerability, for in his context he opened the door to ridicule, rejection and eventual subjection to torturous death.
