Acts 2.42-47; 23; 1 Peter 2.19-25; John 10.1-10OF ALL the words that Christians use without reflecting about their significance, “Amen” is surely the most important and one of the most familiar. It is a word that Jesus…
Acts 10.34-43 or Jeremiah 31.1-6; Psalm 118.1-2,14-24; Colossians 3.1-4 or Acts 10.34-43; John 20.1-18 or Matthew 28.1-10IN MATTHEW’s resurrection Gospel, Mary Magdalene and another Mary go to the tomb. This is a variation on…
Isaiah 52.13-53.12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 4.14-16; 5.7-9; John 18.1-19.42THE Passion is action-packed. People move from scene to scene: garden, prison, palace, hillside. There is violence and cruelty: scourging, mockery, shame.…
Liturgy of the Palms: Matthew 21.11Liturgy of the Passion: Isaiah 50.4-9a; Psalm 31.9-16 (31.9-18); Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew 25.14-end of 27 (Matthew 27.11-54)“LOOK, the man!” (John 19.5). On Good Friday, Jesus will hold…
Ezekiel 37.1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8.6-11; John 11.1-45THIS is the third Sunday in a row in which John’s Gospel reveals something about divine truth through Jesus’s interactions with women. Two weeks ago, it was a Samaritan…
Genesis 12.1-4a; Psalm 121; Romans 4.1-5, 13-17; John 3.1-17JOHN the Evangelist does not do homely chit-chat. I cannot imagine him (or the other Evangelists) reporting a conversation between Jesus and his followers about the…
Genesis 2.15-17, 3.1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5.12-19; Matthew 4.1-11OUT of the 66 books of the Bible, 27 are in the New Testament. I know that now because, when it was a question on the quiz programme, Only Connect, I…
Genesis 1.1-2.3; Psalm 136 (136 1-9, 23-end); Romans 8.18-25; Matthew 6.25-endONE scholar encourages us to savour the “combination of sapiential insight and apocalyptic vision in the anxieties passage”. But his shorthand —…
Isaiah 7.10-16; Psalm 80.1-8,18-20; Romans 1.1-7; Matthew 1.18-endCOMMENTATORS note that John marks his Gospel as a new Genesis, by his echo of Genesis 1.1: “In the beginning”. But Matthew does something similar, and does it…
Isaiah 35.1-10; Psalm 146.1-10; James 5.7-10; Matthew 11.2-11THIS is not a Gospel for those who like easy answers. One commentator remarks that, among the four Evangelists, “Matthew’s presentation of the Baptist is . . . the…
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