Saturday, March 16, 2013

What's Up With Galilee?

Today's Readings

So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?” The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.” So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.” Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them, “Does our law condemn a man before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?” They answered and said to him,  “You are not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”  - John 7: 45-52

The opperative question for today is an important one to ask as we progress on our Way through the rest of our Lenten Journey... What's wrong with Galilee?  I stand aside and let the following resources offer some perspective:

Galilee
Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06341c.htm

"From Jesus to the Christ"
A PBS - Frontline Special
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/galilee.html

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