Pure Religion: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Letters From Home - Un pódcast de St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

Today’s Gospel casts Jesus in a prophetic light as one having authority to interpret God’s law. Jesus’ quotation from Isaiah today is ironic (see Isaiah 29:13). In observing the law, the Pharisees honor God by ensuring that nothing unclean passes their lips. In this, however, they’ve turned the law inside out, making it a matter of simply performing certain external actions.

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