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The verb “see” is used over and over and over again in this text from John's gospel. And each time the text uses the verb “to see,” action follows. Nowhere in this morning’s Gospel can someone simply "see" and stop there.

This text is perfect as we commemorate Martin Luther King. He accepted Jesus’ invitation to come and see and went all over the United States’ seeing the injustices facing African American people. And when he saw, he acted - helping to train and lead people for acts of non-violent resistance, participating in his own acts of non-violent resistance, finding himself in jail, and ultimately dying because of what he saw and the call to action that followed.