Today's gospel is the parable of the landowner and the workers in the vineyard: those hired at the first hour, the third, the sixth, and all the way to the eleventh, and the surprising twist that every one of them received the same wage.
The resurrection is a new kind of life, as different from our present existence as a stalk of grain is from a seed. Not disembodied, not mere resuscitation, but something beyond anything we can imagine now.
Jesus rebuked Bethsaida and Chorazin. What were those "mighty works" that should have turned their lives around? The greatest miracles aren't exorcisms or healings—but the transformation of hearts.
