요나 예언자는 이방인 도시 ‘니네베’를 회개시키라는 소명을 받습니다. 하지만 요나는 가고 싶어 하지 않습니다. 하느님의 말씀을 전하면 니네베 사람들이 회개하고 구원받을 것이 확실하기 때문입니다. 그는 니네베 반대 방향으로 배를 타고 도망을 칩니다.
그러나 거센 태풍을 만납니다. 배가 가라앉을 조짐이 보이자 요나는 고백합니다. 태풍의 원인은 자신이며 하느님의 분노라고 알린 것이지요. 선원들은 그를 바다에 던지고, 요나는 ‘물고기 배 속’에서 뉘우치게 됩니다. 이후 요나는 니네베로 돌아가 주님의 말씀을 전했고 사람들은 회개하였습니다.
요나 예언서의 내용입니다. 훗날 이 이야기에서 ‘요나 콤플렉스’라는 용어가 만들어집니다. 지나치게 폐쇄된 성격을 드러내거나 ‘유아기의 습관’을 버리지 못하는 행동을 뜻합니다. 아직도 어머니 배 속을 그리워해 현실에 적응하지 못한다는 표현이지요. 복음의 바리사이들은 영적으로 ‘요나 콤플렉스’에 젖어 있습니다. 율법에 안주해 ‘예수님의 가르침’을 받아들이지 못하고 있습니다.
이방인인 니네베 사람들도 요나 이야기를 듣자 삶을 바꾸었습니다. 그런데 바리사이들은 주님의 말씀을 듣고도 움직이지 않습니다. 오히려 표징을 요구하고 있습니다. 우리에게는 바리사이의 모습이 없는지 돌아봐야겠습니다.
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이스라엘 백성들이 탈출하자 이집트는 흥분합니다. 그들은 즉시 군대를 동원하여 추격합니다. 기쁨에 들떴던 백성들은 깜짝 놀라며 하느님께 매달립니다. 모세는 백성들을 진정시키며 두려워하지 말라고 합니다. 마침내 그들은 바다가 갈라지는 기적을 목격하고 하느님의 능력에 승복합니다(제1독서). 율법 학자와 바리사이 몇몇이 예수님께 기적을 요구합니다. 그러나 주님께서는 거절하십니다. 이미 베푸셨던 당신의 기적들을 먼저 받아들이라는 암시입니다. 요나의 설교를 듣고 회개했던 니네베 사람들을 본받으라고 하십니다(복음).
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July 20, 2009
Ex 14:5-18
When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them. They exclaimed, "What have we done! Why, we have released Israel from our service!" So Pharaoh made his chariots ready and mustered his soldiers six hundred first-class chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on them all. So obstinate had the LORD made Pharaoh that he pursued the children of Israel even while they were marching away in triumph. The Egyptians, then, pursued them; Pharaoh’s whole army, his horses, chariots and charioteers, caught up with them as they lay encamped by the sea, at Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
Pharaoh was already near when the children of Israel looked up and saw that the Egyptians were on the march in pursuit of them. In great fright they cried out to the LORD. And they complained to Moses, "Were there no burial places in Egypt that you had to bring us out here to die in the desert? Why did you do this to us? Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, 'Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians’? Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians than to die in the desert." But Moses answered the people, "Fear not! Stand your ground, and you will see the victory the LORD will win for you today. These Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again. The LORD himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still."
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. And you, lift up your staff and, with hand outstretched over the sea, split the sea in two, that the children of Israel may pass through it on dry land. But I will make the Egyptians so obstinate that they will go in after them. Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and charioteers. The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I receive glory through Pharaoh and his chariots and charioteers."
Exodus 15:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6
R.(1b) Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory. I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant; horse and chariot he has cast into the sea. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. He is my God, I praise him; the God of my father, I extol him. R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory. The LORD is a warrior, LORD is his name! Pharaoh’s chariots and army he hurled into the sea; the elite of his officers were submerged in the Red Sea. R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory. The flood waters covered them, they sank into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O LORD, magnificent in power, your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy. R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
Mt 12:38-42
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." He said to them in reply, "An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here. At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here."
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