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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...

Thursday, September 28, 2017
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25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I

Luke 9:7-9

Friends, *in today's Gospel we see Herod interested in and perplexed by
Jesus. * *Political rulers **don't come across well **in the New Testament.*
In Luke's Christmas account, *Caesar Augustus is compared very unfavorably **to
the Christ child*. *And that child,* in Matthew's account *is** hunted down
by the desperate Herod. *Later, *Herod's son persecutes John the Baptist
and Jesus himself. More to it, the Jewish authorities are seen in all of
the Gospels as corrupt.*



*And Pontius Pilate is a typical Roman governor: efficient, concerned for
order, brutal.* Like the other rulers of the time, he perceives Jesus,
quite correctly, as a threat. "So you are a king?" Pilate asks. *Jesus
says, "My kingdom does not belong to this world."*



*This does not mean **that Jesus is* *unconcerned **for the realities of
politics**, with the very "this-worldly" concerns of* *justice, peace, and
right order.* When he speaks of his kingdom not belonging to the "world",
he shades the negative side of that term. *The"world" is the realm of sin,
selfishness, hatred, violence.* What he is saying is that *his way of
ordering things is not typical of* *the worldly powers like Pilate, Caesar,
and Herod.*
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