Matthew 11:18-19
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”

How often do we judge others based on appearances? Jesus gave us two examples where people judged John the Baptist and Himself wrongly. That is the first lesson of today’s scripture. The second is that many of us have never had a genuine picture of Jesus. We have instead been given a pious, sanctimonious and other-worldly portrait of someone very unlike ourselves. But Jesus said that critics described Him as a “glutton and a drunkard” as well as “a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” For many of us…picking up a bible and reading the gospels would be a great way of meeting the real Jesus…for the first time.

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