The color of the earth, transfigured in the Kingdom of God, is paradisiacal green green: that is why, even in the brilliance of the morning star – the Eucharist, the ray of Luke is green.

XVII

The main, special, personal thing in John's testimony is not sacrifice, as in Mark-Matthew-Paul, not the kingdom of God, as in Luke, but love.

Knowing that His hour had come to pass from this world to the Father, He loved His own who were in the world, and loved them to the end. (John 13:1.)

It is, as it were, a dedicatory inscription over the entire testimony of John, the latest in time, but not the most distant, external, but perhaps, on the contrary, the most inner, close to the heart of the Lord, overheard by those who reclined at this heart. But it is wondrous and terrible, incomprehensible to us, that the Eucharist itself is silent in this testimony, either because everything has already been said in the Capernaum synagogue, after the Bethsaida Synagogue, the first Last Supper, the Multiplication of the Loaves, or because it cannot be spoken of: it is too holy and terrible, "ineffable," arrêton, as in all the mysteries. But even here, in the Fourth Gospel, under all the words of the Lord, the mute heart of the Eucharist beats distinctly.

I consecrate myself for them,

(John 17:19),

the Son prays in the last prayer to the Father. This means: "Behold my body, broken for them; this is my blood that is poured out for them."

One of the soldiers pierced His ribs with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. (John 19:34).

This is Christ, who came by water and blood... not only by water, but by water and blood.

… Three testify on earth: spirit, water, and blood. (John 4:6-8) —

insatiably repeats, reminds John of blood. If he remembers it, how could Jesus have forgotten it with him?

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.