Fulfilled prophecy

February 3, 2019 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Jer 1:4–5, 17–19 2nd Reading: 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 (or 1 Cor 13:4–13) Gospel: Lk 4:21–30

Jesus said to the people of Nazareth, “Today these prophetic words come true even as you listen.” All agreed with him and were lost in wonder, while he kept on speaking of the grace of God. Nevertheless they asked, “Who is this but Joseph’s son?” So he said, “Doubtless you will quote me the saying: Doctor, heal yourself! Do here in your town what they say you did in Capernaum.” Jesus added, “No prophet is honored in his own country. Truly, I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens withheld rain for three years and six months and a great famine came over the whole land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow of Zarephath, in the country of Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet, and no one was healed except Naaman, the Syrian.” On hearing these words, the whole assembly became indignant. They rose up and brought him out of the town, to the edge of the hill on which Nazareth is built, intending to throw him down the cliff. But he passed through their midst and went his way.

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Jesus concluded his reading of a passage from the Prophet Isaiah by telling his listeners that what he had read was fulfilled as they heard it. This was good news! Did they rejoice over it? At the start they felt God’s grace working in Jesus and ‘they all agreed with him’ (Luke 4:22). But then they began to look into the background of Jesus. They knew him as the boy next door. Since the Messiah’s origin was supposed to be unknown, the conclusion was that Jesus couldn’t be the Messiah. Rationalization interfered with their faith.

Rationalization is not supposed to be irreconcilable with faith. In fact, faith also seeks understanding. But any submission of faith to intellection must be premised on a bias towards faith. The obvious reason is that human intelligence is limited. There should come a point when intelligence gives way to faith, otherwise it reaches wrong conclusions fatal to spirituality.
Consider what happened to the Jews. Jesus already announced that the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled in their hearing. He had works to back up this claim. He brought sight to the blind, liberty to captives, and glad tidings to the poor. Still they did not believe. How else could Jesus have convinced them? There is truth to the maxim that to those who do not believe, no explanation is possible; to those who believe no explanation is necessary. — (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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