In
the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Again, the Pharisees come to Jesus in an attempt to trick Him with
some cleverly devised question. Again, He refuses to play into their
hands. This time, however, rather than simply remaining irritatingly
out of their grasp, Jesus pokes back at the so-called religious
experts. They ask a question, and He answers. He asks a question, and
they fail to answer it.
With His question, “Whose
son is the Christ?”, Jesus
expounds upon His answer to the Pharisees' question, “What
is the greatest commandment?”
As Luther sees it, this text poses, and answers the same question
within two different spheres. How shall we live, both “here in
time, and there in eternity”?
