We have only a few stories about Jesus’ life before He began His ministry. We really have nothing from the time He was about twelve until the time He was about thirty. And those last three years had a real whirlwind quality about them.
We see this in today’s Gospel, as we do in so many stories about Jesus whenever He visited Jerusalem. Even early secular works like that of Flavius Josephus, a first century Jewish historian, refer to the fire with which Jesus was filled in His visits to Jerusalem.
In today’s passage, Jesus goes after those who are looked upon as “pillars of society” and expresses His righteous anger over the disrespectful way that they use the Temple for their own gain. At the same time, He has been speaking well of those on whom these “pillars” look down.
In His short time in ministry, Jesus has really upset the apple cart, which has led to a desire among the leaders, whom He has challenged, to eliminate Him from life.
Indeed, the task of evangelization can often times put us at odds with others, even with those whom we love most. May we never turn away from our Baptismal call to spread the Good News of the Gospel, and may we live the message and spirit of that Good News in our everyday lives, that our actions and attitudes may give greater power to our words. +
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