From Tragedy To Triumph

N. T. Wright explains the seed analogy that Jesus used in John 12. “Jesus’s death will be like sowing a seed into the ground. It will look like a tragedy, the large-scale, fully grown version of the tiny ‘tragedy’ that a small boy feels at planting one of his largest and best ‘conkers’ in the ground and never seeing it again. In fact, it will be a triumph: the triumph of God’s self-giving love, the love that looks death itself in the face and defeats it by meeting it voluntarily, on behalf no...