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<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends, in
 today’s Gospel, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">Jesus tells the crowd that the only sign he will give 
is the sign of Jonah</span></b>—<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the victory of his death and Resurrection.</span><br></b></span><br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">. There could have been, in the first century, 
no surer sign that someone was not</span><span> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">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.<br></span><br><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">That
 Peter, James, John, Paul, Thomas, and the rest could announce 
throughout <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the Mediterranean world </span>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 <u>something 
monumentally significant happened to Jesus after his</u> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">death.<br></span></span></b><br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><div><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><u><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">That
 something was the Resurrection</span></b></u>. 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: <u><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the crucified Jesus, who had <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">died </span>and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">been buried</span>, 
appeared alive again to his disciples. <br></span></b></u></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div><div><b><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.<br> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>

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