And there it is.

What is the truer nature of the Church? Mystical Body or political body? Are they equally so?

I wonder what Jesus thinks...who could we ask?

Let's ask Pontius Pilate! (John 18)

Or the Pharisees and Herodians in the Temple (Matt 22)

Or Judas after his little spat with Jesus over use of money (John 12)

Or the mother of James and John (Matt 20)

Or maybe we can jump ahead and read the last 10 or so chapters of Revelation and see how the destiny of political bodies shapes up compared to the Church?

Yep...really wonder what Jesus thinks about the nature and purpose of the Church and how much we should care about who is exercising power in the political sense...a mystery we might never solve!