If something is too good to be true, then it probably isn't true at all. Such is one of the lessons that life teaches us. We learn early on that all too little is what it seems to be. We learn to be skeptical, to question, to doubt. And yet, sometime in life most of us are also taught to believe, even in the face of our skepticism. When does that happen? When did you first really believe something?

The authorities complained about what Jesus was saying. He was after all, Joseph and Mary's boy. They watched him grow up, saw him learn the trade of his father Joseph. "How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" It is hard to argue with the authorities in today's reading. Are their questions not also ours?