but you have turned it into a den of robbers!” Jesus was teaching every day in the temple.
The chief priests and teachers of the law wanted to kill him, and the elders of the Jews as
well, but they were unable to do anything, for all the people were listening to him and
hanging on his words.
Reflect:
Jesus spoke, and the people “hung on to his words”, says Luke. John, in his visions, was asked to
take and eat the book, the “word.” And, this is what we must do as well: hang on to the word, in
season and out of season; and feed on it as the daily bread, day in and day out. Dei Verbum, the
dogmatic constitution on divine revelation by Vatican Council II, ends with a similar dream and
prayer: “Through the reading and study of the sacred books ‘the word of God may spread rapidly
and be glorified’ and the treasure of revelation, entrusted to the Church, may more and more fill
the hearts of men. Just as the life of the Church is strengthened through more frequent celebration
of the Eucharistic mystery, similar we may hope for a new stimulus for the life of the Spirit from a
growing reverence for the word of God, which ‘lasts forever’.”
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