May the Best Candidate Win

May the Best Candidate Win

The scripture verse that immediately precedes our text for today includes these words, “No one was able to give him an answer nor from that day did anyone dare to ask anymore questions.” Well, shut my mouth! The reference to “anyone” here would be the religious authorities of Jesus’ time. Those authorities who have been questioning and quizzing Jesus with questions intended to trip him up, to literally entrap him. I’d like to call this period of questioning Jesus in the gospel of Matthew, the “Messianic Inquisition.”