A CATHOLIC WONDERING
Every once in a while I run into someone with the notion that Jesus either wasn’t, or didn’t claim to be, divine. Most of the time the person doesn’t seem to be really familiar with the Scriptures and what Jesus said. Jesus, as the Son of God, did all things rightly, but I have to wonder, why was He so often rather obscure or indirect about what He said and His answers? Was it to make His hearers think more penetratingly? Was there a bit of holy playfulness at work? Or could it be that what seems obscure and indirect to mere creatures is clear and distinct to God? When Pilate asked Him “Then you are a king?” He answered “You say I am a king.” John 18;37)
Wow! Is that a way that people commonly answered questions back then? I suppose it’s almost impossible to do justice to the nuances of ancient speech in modern English, but that doesn’t seem to be the way people would talk. And it’s only one example.
