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EL MÁS GRANDE Y EL PRIMER MANDAMIENTO Este texto es parte de la serie de narraciones de conflictos o encuentros de Jesús con los líderes religiosos de su tiempo que registra Mateo en los capítulos 21 y 22, ocurridos en la semana previa a su muerte. El capítulo 21 comienza con la entrada de Jesús … Continue reading “San Mateo 22:34-46 Comentario por Yolanda Rosas”

For additional lectionary resources on the assigned texts for Reformation Sunday, please see the Craft of Preaching articles. The two stories of Matthew 22:34-46 conclude an entire narrative section focused on the Jerusalem leadership in confrontation with Jesus. The confrontations begin with the Jewish chief priests and elders questioning Jesus’ authority (21:23-27). After questions brought … Continue reading “Matthew 22:34-46 Commentary by Jeannine K. Brown”

Here ends, in this passage, the disputations and entrapments orchestrated by religious leaders during Jesus’ final visit to Jerusalem. They had been at it for a while. In Matthew’s telling of the story, on this Tuesday of Holy Week Jesus was involved in a long series of disputations with Sadducees, lawyers, chief priests, elders, scribes, … Continue reading “Matthew 22:34-46 Commentary by Clayton Schmit”

This is not the meek and gentle Jesus we thought we knew. In contradiction to our “felt board” picture of Jesus as an innocuous nice guy, this section of Matthew portrays him as passionate to the point of physical demonstration (21:12), stubbornly enigmatic in insisting on his authority to teach and act in radical ways … Continue reading “Matthew 22:34-46 Commentary by Lance Pape”

La pregunta que le hicieron a Jesús era de verdad tramposa. Los fariseos eran personas piadosas que sólo reconocían a Dios como Señor. Los del partido de Herodes, en cambio, eran militantes políticos que apoyaban a Herodes Antipas y por lo tanto también al emperador. Si Jesús contestaba que no estaba bien que se pagaran … Continue reading “San Mateo 22:15-22 Comentario por Andrés Albertsen”

DAD A CÉSAR LO QUE ES DE CÉSAR, Y A DIOS LO QUE ES DE DIOS Este pasaje del Evangelio se encuentra en una unidad que incluye varias narraciones de conflictos de los diferentes grupos religiosos de la época con Jesús y se refiere específicamente a los fariseos1 y los herodianos2 que fueron a preguntarle … Continue reading “San Mateo 22:15-22 Comentario por Yolanda Rosas”

You can currently purchase online both a book, the title of which is Jesus is Not a Republican, and a T-shirt claiming that “Jesus Votes Republican.” And, of course, you can find the converse claims and denials about Jesus being a Democrat. Judging from the gospel text for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, the Jesus … Continue reading “Matthew 22:15-22 Commentary by Jeannine K. Brown”

We think of the last days of Jesus’ final week as being full of vexation. Indeed, they were: betrayal, arrest, torture, and crucifixion. But the first two days of the week were also filled with difficulty. In Matthew’s version of the week, Jesus enters Jerusalem triumphantly on Monday and proceeds to the temple to cleanse … Continue reading “Matthew 22:15-22 Commentary by Clayton Schmit”

Politically, just about the only thing Pharisees and Herodians have in common is that they don’t like Jesus. So they hold their noses, put aside their many differences for a moment, and come together to pose Jesus a question that they hope will put him between a rock and a hard place: “Is it lawful … Continue reading “Matthew 22:15-22 Commentary by Lance Pape”

Esta parábola contiene tres temas importantes: 1) Jesús es el Hijo de Dios; 2) El rechazo del pueblo de Israel hacia los profetas enviados por Dios; 3) Inclusión de los Gentiles en el Reino de Dios. Estos temas se encuentran en la parábola anterior de los labradores ingratos. El uso de la metáfora de la … Continue reading “San Mateo 22:1-14 Comentario por Dynna Castillo Portugal”