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El comienzo del tiempo Este domingo comienza un nuevo año litúrgico y lo hace con un llamado a estar vigilantes porque el Señor está cerca. Es el tiempo del Adviento, tiempo en el cual evocamos la época anterior a la llegada del Señor, a la Navidad. Por cuatro domingos vamos a meditar sobre el sentido … Continue reading “San Mateo 24:36-44 Comentario por Pablo R. Andiñach”

Be honest! What are your first thoughts as you anticipate the first Sunday of Advent? For me, both as preacher and as worshiper in the pew, the church year and the gospel readings always seem somehow out of synch with other life rhythms. The student only half-humorously jokes that it is only the second day … Continue reading “Matthew 24:36-44 Commentary by James Boyce”

Matthew 24:36-44 is part of a much larger passage, usually called the Olivet discourse, which discusses both events that transpired in the first century A.D. and those which as of yet have not come to pass. Matthew 26:36-44, an appropriate text for the first Sunday in Advent, clearly falls in the latter category being a … Continue reading “Matthew 24:36-44 Commentary by Ben Witherington”

The Gospel readings for the four Sundays in Advent, Year A, follow the pattern for all three years (A, B, and C). According to the over-all design of the three-year lectionary,1 the Gospel texts for the First Sunday are always apocalyptic, anticipating the Parousia, the second coming of Christ. Readings for the Second and Third Sundays … Continue reading “Matthew 24:36-44 Commentary by Arland J. Hultgren”

Jesús acababa de tener una serie de encuentros con tres grupos judíos que, entre sí, tenían ideas políticamente divergentes y teológicamente, por lo menos, diversas. Estos encuentros, según la narrativa de Mateo, no fueron precipitados por Jesús. Por el contrario, los buscaron representantes de los herodianos, los saduceos y los fariseos, cada uno, aparentemente aparte … Continue reading “San Mateo 23:1-12 Comentario por Amaury Tañón-Santos”

NO HAGAN LO QUE ELLOS HACEN 1. Jesús acusa a los fariseos y a los escribas de no ser coherentes con sus enseñanzas Jesús hace una denuncia pública de la hipocresía de los fariseos responsables de interpretar la ley de Moisés en la sinagoga y ante el pueblo judío. La frase “en la cátedra de … Continue reading “San Mateo 23:1-12 Comentario por Yolanda Rosas”

For additional lectionary resources on the assigned texts for All Saints, please see the Craft of Preaching articles. This passage introduces a chapter in Matthew filled with Jesus’ warnings to the scribes and Pharisees. Yet it is important to note from the onset that the narrative audience of the chapter is the Jewish crowds and … Continue reading “Matthew 23:1-12 Commentary by Jeannine K. Brown”

As a resident of Washington, DC, I recognize political rhetoric, caricatures, and trash-talk when I hear them, and I hear them loud and clear in Matthew 23:1-12. Allegedly the context is Jesus’ confrontation with the religious leaders in Jerusalem. In the previous two chapters we have encountered the vehemence of that confrontation, but here Jesus’ … Continue reading “Matthew 23:1-12 Commentary by Sharon H. Ringe”

In Matthew 23 we encounter a sustained condemnation of the scribes and Pharisees, placed upon the very lips of Jesus. This lectionary excerpt constitutes the first twelve of thirty-six or thirty-nine verses, depending on one’s analysis. Among other things, the passage presents us with a perennial question: What makes for authentic teaching? Jesus praises the … Continue reading “Matthew 23:1-12 Commentary by Greg Carey”

“Maestro, ¿cuál es el mandamiento más importante de la ley?” Era una pregunta razonable. Los fariseos no sólo guardaban 10 mandamientos, sino 613 (repartidos en 365 mandatos negativos o prohibiciones y 248 mandatos positivos o acciones a realizar) y era un problema recordarlos a todos y evitar que el cumplimiento de un mandato llevara a … Continue reading “San Mateo 22:34-46 Comentario por Andrés Albertsen”