[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus tells the crowd that the only sign he
will give is the sign of Jonah—the victory of his death and Resurrection.*

*If Jesus had died and simply remained in his grave, he would be remembered
(if he was remembered at all) as a noble idealist, tragically crushed by
the forces of history. There could have been, in the first century, no
surer sign that someone was not the Messiah than his death at the hands of
the enemies of Israel, for one of the central marks of messiahship was
precisely victory over those enemies.*

*That Peter, James, John, Paul, and the rest could announce throughout the
Mediterranean world that Jesus was in fact the long-awaited Israelite
Messiah, and that they could go to their deaths defending this claim, are
the surest indications that something monumentally significant happened to
Jesus after his death.*

*That something was the Resurrection*. Though too many modern theologians
have tried to explain the Resurrection away as a wish-fulfilling fantasy, a
vague symbol, or a literary invention,
*the New Testament writers could not be clearer: the crucified Jesus, who
had died and been buried, appeared alive again to his disciples  *

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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