How do we relate a story that much of our audience already knows by heart? How do we proclaim the good news when for many of our hearers it may have become simply yesterday’s news? This is the homiletical and exegetical challenge facing us every Palm Sunday, when year after year the cross stands before … Continue reading “Matthew 27:11-54 Commentary by Eric Barreto”
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Matthew 27:11-54 Commentary by Melinda Quivik
This day is an image of ourselves and of the God who comes as a power so great that resurrection defeats even cruel execution. The church is called to reckon with paradox on this day: triumph and rejection, death and rebirth. This day is the entrance into the most holy time of year when all … Continue reading “Matthew 27:11-54 Commentary by Melinda Quivik”
San Mateo 25:31-46 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos
Esta es la lección evangélica que culmina el Tiempo Ordinario o la Temporada después de Pentecostés, dando paso para al nuevo año litúrgico, y su celebración inicial de Adviento. Mateo 25, como lo hemos mencionado en los comentarios anteriores, es uno de los más debatidos capítulos de los evangelios, y la porción escritural del 31-46 … Continue reading “San Mateo 25:31-46 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos”
San Mateo 25:31-46 Comentario por Justin Eller
La parábola del juicio de las naciones es propia del evangelio de Mateo y aparece a continuación de la parábola de los talentos que un rico dejó a sus siervos o empleados para usar, invertir, desarrollar y cuidar a otras personas durante su ausencia. El tema de esperar el regreso del Señor, o sea el … Continue reading “San Mateo 25:31-46 Comentario por Justin Eller”
Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Stanley Saunders
Scholars often identify this story not as a parable, but as a “figurative teaching” or an “apocalyptic prediction,” i.e., a story that depicts the final judgment and clarifies the criteria by which the judgment will be made. But this story is a true parable, a puzzle that includes the kind of twists so typical of … Continue reading “Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Stanley Saunders”
Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Dirk G. Lange
We come this Sunday, in Matthew’s Gospel, to the final discourse of Jesus before his passion. It is also the last “parable” (it is really more a description of judgment than a parable) in the eschatological discourse. The theme of judgment in Matthew’s Gospel plays a central role. We encounter it already at the baptism … Continue reading “Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Dirk G. Lange”
Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Carla Works
The Lord’s teaching on the final judgment challenges every disciple of Jesus to be a harbinger of God’s kingdom in a broken world. The teaching opens with apocalyptic images that convey Christ’s kingship. The image of the Son of Man coming in glory reflects imagery from Daniel 7:13-14 and recalls other places in Matthew’s Gospel … Continue reading “Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Carla Works”
Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Greg Carey
The parable of the sheep and the goats may present one of the most outworn passages in the Bible. The last of four consecutive judgment parables, if one counts Jesus’ saying concerning faithful and unfaithful slaves (24:45-51), the parable wraps up Jesus’ extended eschatological discourse that runs through Matthew 24-25. Some commentators do not regard … Continue reading “Matthew 25:31-46 Commentary by Greg Carey”
San Mateo 25:14-30 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos
A la parábola en cuestión se le ha atribuido diversos títulos, cada uno de los cuales enfatiza perspectivas y aplicaciones distintas e importantes de la perícopa. Las tradiciones protestantes históricas, que utilizan, por ejemplo, versiones como la Reina-Valera 1960, conocen esta parábola como la Parábola de los Talentos. Traducciones más de avanzada, realizadas en los … Continue reading “San Mateo 25:14-30 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos”
San Mateo 25:14-30 Comentario por Justin Eller
En otro momento privado de enseñanza con sus discípulos en el Monte de los Olivos, estos le preguntan: “Dinos, ¿cuándo serán estas cosas [la destrucción del Templo] y qué señal habrá de tu venida y del fin del siglo?” (Mt 24:3) Jesús les cuenta muchas historias y parábolas, usando metáforas creativas para ayudarles a entender … Continue reading “San Mateo 25:14-30 Comentario por Justin Eller”