[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel focuses on John the Baptist. I think it’s fair to
say that you cannot really understand Jesus without understanding John,
which is precisely why all four Evangelists tell the story of the Baptist
as a kind of overture to the story of Jesus. John did not draw attention to
himself. Rather, he presented himself as a preparation, a forerunner, a
prophet preparing the way of the Lord. He was summing up much of Israelite
history, but stressing that this history was open-ended, unfinished. And
therefore, how powerful it was when, upon spying Jesus coming to be
baptized, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God.” No first-century Israelite
would have missed the meaning of that: behold the one who has come to be
sacrificed. Behold the sacrifice, which will sum up, complete, and perfect
the Temple. Moreover, behold the Passover lamb, who sums up the whole
meaning of that event and brings it to fulfillment. *And this is why John
says, “He must increase and I must decrease.” *In other words, the overture
is complete*, and now the great opera begins. *The preparatory work of
Israel is over, and now the Messiah will reign.*
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