28th Week in Ord. Time, Monday – 10th October 2022 — Gospel: Lk 11,29-32
Call to Repentance
The response of Jesus to the crowd’s demand for a sign begins and ends with Jonah. For Luke the sign of Jonah was not Jonah being in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, but it’s the call to repentance that Jonah preached. As the people of Nineveh repented after the call by Jonah, so Jesus calls the crowd to repentance after his proclamation. He refuses to give the crowds any other sign, because any demand for a sign means that they have not understood what Jesus is about, and what his mission is. Jesus also knows that for those who believe, no sign is necessary, whereas for those who do not, no sign is sufficient. Jesus’ call to repentance is a call to look at everything in a new light.
