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Friends,
in today’s Gospel Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who have
imposed their interpretation of the Law on the Israelites. Keep in mind
that the first Christians and the writers of the first Christian
documents were all Jews, or at least people formed by a Jewish thought
world. They made sense of Jesus in terms of what were, to them, the
Scriptures.
Jesus
himself was an observant Jew, and the themes and images of the Holy
Scriptures were elemental for him. He presented himself as the one who
would not undermine the Law and the Prophets but fulfill them.
All
of those social and religious conventions that had effectively divided
Israel, he sought to overcome and expose as fraudulent. He reached out
to everyone: rich and poor, healthy and sick, saints and sinners. And he
embodied the obedience of Israel: “I have come only to do the will of
the one who sent me.” “My food is to do the will of my heavenly Father.”
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