Most of us like to be at first or at least like to be placed or counted equal to others.
We can see this mentality once you are in a queue before a theatre to buy a ticket or to pay the bills in a shopping mall…
normally we won’t allow others to overtake us.
John and James were smart: they had the name the "Sons of Thunder" (Mark 3,17). We read in Lk 9, 51-56 that Jesus was rejected by a Samaritan village and John and James ask our lord to “tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them “, which was rebuked by Jesus. This show their blind love to Jesus.
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Fr Thomas Kalathil
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