GOSPEL READING: Mt 25:14-30
This parable has got only one message and that is the reason why the whole story is centred on the one servant (useless servant). This parable is also narrated towards the end of the story of the Gospel. Right through the Gospel we see Jesus criticising and condemning the Pharisees and the Scribes. The whole of chapter 23 of Matthew’s Gospel speaks about them.
The Pharisees and the Scribes have been given the Law of Moses and they have been given the Temple, the sign of God’s presence among them. They have been given wonderful promises about how God would bless them and through them how God would bless the other nations. They have buried these things in the ground. They did not use it for themselves and neither did they use it for others.
The master was coming back and he was to come back at the end of times (this is the story of the Israel and God and it is about Jesus and Jews). The other two servants are those who hear the call of Jesus and on that basis live their life accordingly. They are the ones who make the right use of the money.
பரிசேயர்களும் சதுசேயர்களும் ஒன்றே ஒன்றைத்தான் பெற்றார்கள். அதுதான் இறைவெளிப்பாடு. இந்த ஒரு கொடையை அவர்கள் மண்ணில் புதைத்து வைத்து தங்களுக்கும் பிறருக்கும் பயனில்லாது செய்துவிட்டார்கள்.
