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Mark 11:27-33... The Authority of Jesus Questioned... Reflect
Mark 11:27-33... The Authority of Jesus Questioned... Reflect
Our gospel reading present us with men of bad faith. Their bad faith is seen in their behavior. Those men are asked if John the Baptist’s baptism was a divine origin or simply of human origin. They believe–honestly or not, it doesn’t matter for our purpose here–honestly or not, it doesn’t matter for our purpose here–that it was simply of human origin, or else they would have submitted to that baptism. However, and this is what reveals their bad faith, they hide this fact and instead say they don’t know. That is pure equivocation, if not a direct lie. They are afraid to be manhandled by the crowd if they admit their disbelief of John. Contrary to martyrs, who are ready to die for the truth, they are not. For them, saving their own skin is more important than the truth. In other words, their equivocation shows their bad faith, which in turn will bring about their spiritual undoing.
We can have a pretty good idea, in a given set of circumstances, as to whether we are of good faith or not. We only have to examine our handling of the truth. If we are ready to lie or equivocate, our cause is probably questionable, as is our good faith. The end does not justify the means.
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