Jesus outwits the lawyer in today’s Gospel who asks him two questions to trip him up.   The first is, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus turns the question back on him: you’re the lawyer, answer your own question from what the law says. The lawyer does...

No wonder the labourers for the harvest are so few if they are to be devoured like lambs by wolves! Nor does the prospect of being opposed and rejected exactly sound attractive! Yes, there would also be men of peace who would accept them, but Jesus’ forecast looked bad for...

Simon and Saul were both stubborn men. Simon was all muscle and brawn; Saul was all moralism and brain. They were both passionate men with very firm views. But all their bravado actually masked a deep fragility. Deep down, they were both cowards. They were afraid of God, the real...