"Why are you talking to them with parables?" (Matthew 13: 10-17)
Biblical reflections by Mauro Leonardi*, priest and writer
The message of Jesus is sometimes contradictory. In some bodyse steps those who have not seen and did not touch but have believed: here exalts those who have been able to see and listen. What dissolves the node of the apparent contradiction is the heart, a heart of flesh opposite to a heart of stone: this arrangement of mind counts, not so much the actions we perform, let alone the results we achieve.
From the Gospel according to Matthew 13: 10-17
At that time, the disciples approached Jesus and said to him: "Why do you speak to them with parables?". He replied: «Because you are given to you know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not given to them. In fact, to the one who has, it will be given and will be in abundance; But to the one who does not have, what he has will also be removed. This is why I speak to them with parables: because looking at do not see, hearing they do not listen and do not understand. Thus the prophecy of Isaìa is fulfilled for them, who says:
“You will hear, yes, but you will not understand,
you will look, yes, but you will not see.
Because the heart of this people has become insensitive,
they have become hard of ears
and they closed their eyes,
because they don't see with the eyes,
do not listen to with the ears
and do not understand with the heart
and they don't convert and I heal them! ".
Blessed is your eyes because they see and your ears because they listen. In truth I tell you: many prophets and many righteous have wanted to see what you look at, but they didn't see it, and listen to what you listen to, but they didn't listen to it! ».
* Mauro Leonardi (Como 1959) has been a priest since 29 May 1988 and has been inhabited in Rome since then. He spends many hours of his day to make the priest and prefers to build bridges rather than raising walls. For years he has been writing stories, articles, essays and books that revolve around the relationship between man and God. Author of the blogLike Jesus. Abelis (Lindau) is his latest novel. The volunteers of the Gionata project thank him for sharing these reflections on the word with us.
