“My eyes are ever towards the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.” (Ps 25, 15)
The readings of this Sunday may appear little tough to common readers.
Let us start with the second reading. In the first letter to Corinthians St Paul tells a brief history of the early Jews. They were with Moses, seen wonders of God in the Desert; ate heavenly food and drank from Rocks….but most of them couldn’t survive the Desert. (Even Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land.)
In the Gospel Jesus is mentioning two incidents happened in Palestine.
The first one is not something truly historical – at least not historically stated or a mix of 2 incidents. It is the killing of some Samaritans by Pilate. Some relate this event to the massacre of a certain rebellious group under Judas the Galilean. Jesus’ words in the Gospel proves that, people related these (two ?) events….
The second story in the Gospel is about the death of 18 people in the pool of Bethesda, where people waited for their ritual purification baths (John 5). The name “Bethesda” itself means “House of Mercy”, but (innocent) people were killed without mercy in an accident.
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