As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

Because of his popularity, they could not arrest Jesus openly when he was surrounded by crowds of people. The chief priests sent an armed crowd to arrest Jesus. They were obviously expecting ...

The on-going conflict with the religious leaders leads to this point. Jesus’ enemies, the chief priests and the elders, met in secret in the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, to make plans to ...

Augustus appointed himself as the chief priest – or Pontifex Maximus – and used the appearance of Halley’s Comet to claim that he was, himself, the son of a god.

(Lk 18:1-8) The parable of the Two Sons is spoken in the temple to religious leaders, the chief priests and the elders (Mt 21:23). Jesus says to them: What do you think? A man had two sons ...