[Grem] Advent 3. szerdája szentmiséje igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel, Luke tells us about John the Baptist’s
parents. We see with utter clarity that John is a priestly figure.
Zechariah, his father, is a Temple priest, and Elizabeth, his mother, is a
descendant of Aaron, the very first priest.Now flash forward thirty years
and see John emerging in the desert. *The first question is, "Why is this
son of a priest not working in the Temple?" And the second is, "Why are the
people going out from Jerusalem to commune with him?"

*The answer to the first is that he is engaging in a prophetic critique of
a Temple that has gone bad. And the answer to the second is that he is
performing the acts of a purified Temple priest out in the desert. His
baptism was a ritual cleansing and a spur to repent, precisely what a pious
Jew would have sought in the Temple.And the picture becomes complete when
Jesus arrives to be baptized, and John says, "Behold, the Lamb of God."
This is explicitly Temple talk. He is saying that the one who is to be
sacrificed has arrived. He is the fulfillment of priesthood, Temple, and
sacrifice. The priestly figure has done his work, and now he fades away.*
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