Luke 20:41-44
Let’s remember to pray for Jim and Marty.
“Notice what you notice.” Matthew and Mark place today’s reading right after the scribe questioning Jesus about the “great commandment”. Luke, however, places these verses after the Sadducees’ questioning Jesus about the resurrection of the dead. Even with different preceding verses, both Mark and Luke have the crowd (presumably the Pharisees) unwilling to ask Jesus any more questions. So with His listeners silenced, Jesus decides to ask them a question, as to how David can call his Son “Lord”. I find it interesting that Jesus has taken the initiative in asking that question after He had silenced them with His responses. He was teaching them how little they knew, in spite of their great knowledge.
Matthew’s final verse in this incident is even more telling: And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask Him any more questions. (Matthew 22:46) The scribes and Pharisees had no answers and now no more questions. After Jesus had answered so perfectly the Sadducees’ question about the resurrection and the scribe’s question about the great commandment, we must surely wonder why the Pharisees (some of them) didn’t just throw in the towel and sit at Jesus’ feet and learn all they could from Him. It’s a simple answer, really: pride! The same thing that keeps us holding on to our own “idols”. Folks, let’s never get to the point where we have stopped asking Jesus questions…!
Slava Bohu!