During his last week in Jerusalem Jesus flips the tables of
the temple money changers and turns the tables on the chief priests. He is one
tricky Messiah and I imagine he smiled when he asked the elders about John the
Baptist knowing full well the trap he was setting. Of course they will have the
last laugh on the Friday we call “Good” but then maybe their answer “we don’t
know” leads Jesus to forgive them for not knowing what they do (Luke 23:34)
even though the Gospel of Matthew believes they knew exactly what they were
doing. “Let his blood be on us and on our children.” (Matthew 27:25) The story
of the two sons that follows the Q&A might be read as the cliff notes of
the more well-known “son” story. (Luke 15) In the same way that the son who ran
away comes home the unwilling son becomes obedient. And the stay at home son
who says “yes” hits the snooze and sleeps in when it’s time to work. The bottom
line is those who were out are in and those who were in are out but only so far
as they continue to resist the One whose authority is a higher power.
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