[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

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 in Matthew’s account, that child 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, h*e perceives Jesus,
quite correctly, as a threat. “Then 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 worldly powers like Pilate, Caesar, and
Herod.*


*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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