How can we escape being two timing frauds in our beliefs? How can we avoid being duplicitous and escapist in our engagement with God? These are the questions that today’s gospel presents us with and we can begin to find our way to answers to those questions by looking at how Jesus deals with people trapped in the same compromises in his day. But what binds us today to Jesus then is to act the way Jesus did and open ourselves to be changed by God’s grace to become the transparent convert, steeped God’s love, that God made us to be. Then we will escape the all too familiar compromises and the entrapment they bring.