4 June 2024 - Tuesday of the 9th even-numbered week
2 Pet 3:12-15a.17-18; Mk 12:13-17
Homily
The most historically attested fact - even outside the Sacred Books - about Jesus of Nazareth is that he was tried and executed by the Roman authorities on a charge of high treason. When the Pharisees, Scribes and Priests took Jesus to Pontius Pilate to have him condemned to death and executed by the Roman authorities, they used the following accusation against him: ‘We found this man stirring up trouble in our nation: he prevents us from paying tribute to Caesar...’. (Luke 23:2). It is therefore important to analyse carefully the event reported in the Gospel account we have just read, since it was the event that was used by the Jewish authorities to have him executed as a political agitator.