Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
Jesus was in the last year of his life and his battle with the leaders of the people, the Pharisees, was soon to end. They would have him executed and that would be that. Now in the last months of his life Jesus was concerned lest his followers continue to believe that the proud life-style of the Pharisees was to be the Christian Ideal. To make his point he told the crowds a story, an event that was not unfamiliar to any of them who had ever visited the central place of prayer in Israel … the great temple in Jerusalem.