Show us your credentials. Who authorized you to speak like this? (Mark 11:28)

When we’re in stressful situations, so many things come under interrogation. We’re trying to find a way forward; trying to be faithful; trying to make a difference but that often means risking a new way; forging forward with courage into unknown territory. Facing such opposition, Jesus responds to the religious elite’s challenge with a question of his own: “Do you know of a more faithful way?” They didn’t. So Jesus doesn’t answer their question either. He moves ahead and must have wondered: “Who will share my hope?”