Please read this passage before reading this homily.
This passage is about damage control. When we seem to have made a huge and grandiose mistake, we try to cover it up and put out repots that give a positive spin on the situation.
The Sadducees did not like people preaching the resurrection of Jesus. They had the Apostles arrested and put in jail overnight. Imagine the consternation when they found the Apostles preaching in the temple the next morning as if nothing had happened.
Telling the Apostles to stop preaching and locking them up was like setting off an atomic bomb and calling is a diversion. It was like trying to control God. The Sadducees could not control God’s workings any more than they could keep night from coming after day. Only God can control the world and all it contains.
The authorities feared the people, but they should have feared God. It must have been so frustrating for the authorities to be so helpless. They trued to vent their anger, but it only made matters worse for them.
How often are we like the authorities, venting our anger, throwing tantrums because we cannot control others or even our own destinies? A wise Jewish prophet once said, “If a plan does not come from God, it will eventually cease to exist.” Only the good is permanent.
God is not a tame God, and God cannot be tamed. The best we can is let God tame us and learn to be tamed by God.