"Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?
The answer to the question posed by Jesus is the deepest longing on the human heart. The question is meant to get the person in the crowd to tune in to the reason he asked. The question is meant to get him to recognize what has drawn him to be in the crowd, gathered around this man of Nazareth.
Perhaps Jesus is appealing to the voice of conscience. Perhaps he is trying to get the person in the crowd to realize that he did not come because of the crowd, he did not ask because he was curious, he asked because a voice from within demanded him to do so.
"Who appointed me as your judge...?"
This is the question that speaks to the spark of divine love which has been hidden in us by the hand of God. This spark of divine love recognizes the flame from which it comes in the person of Jesus. The person in the crowd gathers at the feet of Jesus because he is moved to return to his source, to be reunited with the flame of love that set him in motion to begin with.
The parable that follows the gospel is the judgment Jesus makes to the person in the crowd and this person's brother and to all who gather. He speaks as the one who is source of the voice of conscience ringing from within and without.
Our conscience finds its fulfillment in the person of Christ who speaks from within and without.
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