Between amazement at his gracious words and anger at his prophetic references… what the heck happened? I’m serious, this is one of the more confusing encounters between Jesus and his hearers. And in Luke’s account, it happens right at the beginning of his public ministry. Foreshadowing, perhaps, the confusion and rejection that were to characterize public reaction to … Read the rest
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All Heaven Breaking Loose
The feeding of the five thousand, according to John. If we’ve been coming to church for a while, we’ve heard this story so many times. And we should hear it many times! It’s so central to Jesus’ ministry that it is the only miracle to appear—in its various versions—in all four Gospels. It underlies our ritual practices of … Read the rest
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