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[Emoke Greschik]

Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

Luke 1:57-66, 80
*Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates the birth of 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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