Our world has become disillusioned with the very notion of authority. Many argue today that authority is either tantamount or at least constantly flirting with abuse. In our passage this week, Luke 20:1-26, when questioned about authority, Jesus actually defends it. But, He will go onto reveal it by his sacrificial and loving death of the cross - and we learn that true authority is power but also weakness, instruction but also comfort. We see gospel authority in this last section in Luke. Let me say, I think that is the key that leads us back to re-allusionment with healthy human authority as well, which we very much need - to be under and to utilize ourselves, for the glory of Christ.