Clearly Jesus has puzzled the crowds. They don’t know what to make of him. That is as it should be because Jesus is facing the people with challenges and the one thing we can be sure about - for ourselves or anyone - is that people don’t like to be challenged, But following Jesus means accepting that every day is a challenge - to find go, love, peace and joy - and a challenge to abandon the surrogates and substitutes for the authentic gifts God gives.