That's a creepy sounding title, but it's right out of today's Gospel: "If anyone keeps my word, he shall never see death." And the same phrase of Jesus was taken up again as a challenge by those who asked him, in effect, "What do you mean? How can you be so important that anyone who keeps your word will never taste death?"
It must have been an expression, because it shows up in Matthew (around chapter 16) and also in the letter to the Hebrews which (significantly enough) says that it was JESUS who "tasted death" for the sake of us all.
That's enough for a meditation right there.
But my concordance-brain was in gear this morning, and it moved on to the phrases surrounding "keeping my word," leading me eventually to John 14--where the one who loves Jesus will keep his word, and the Father will love that person, and "we" (Father and Son) will come to him and make our dwelling with him. John's prologue also states "in him (the Word) was life, life for the light of human beings." No wonder we can "never taste death" if we "keep his word"!
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