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This Sunday begins a series of challenges Jesus faces with the religious authorities. Should we pay taxes to Caesar or not? To say yes would have marked Jesus as a traitor, a collaborator with Rome and to say no would have marked him as POI with the Romans. But Jesus takes neither. Instead, as usual, he asks them a question. It is a similar question God asks us in our own dilemmas. Answering that truly might mean we find a solution we didn't imagine possible.
By Fr Rajiv MichaelThis Sunday begins a series of challenges Jesus faces with the religious authorities. Should we pay taxes to Caesar or not? To say yes would have marked Jesus as a traitor, a collaborator with Rome and to say no would have marked him as POI with the Romans. But Jesus takes neither. Instead, as usual, he asks them a question. It is a similar question God asks us in our own dilemmas. Answering that truly might mean we find a solution we didn't imagine possible.