The King’s judgements Jesus cleared the temple and the chief priests, who ran the temple, did not like this, so on Jesus' next visit they ask Jesus where his authority to do this came from. Instead of giving a direct answer Jesus tells three parables against them — in the first, the parable of the …
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The truth
Whistle blowers and the church When I was in secondary school one of the teams we played against was from the Verona Fathers, a Roman Catholic seminary where boys were being trained as prospective priests. We cheered our team and jeered theirs during the game but before and after the game things were OK between …
Vineyard — Matthew 21:33–46
The King’s judgements Following Jesus clearing the temple of market traders, Jesus was asked by the Temple authorities where he got his authority. The answer seems to be evasive until you realise that the three parables that follow form the bigger part of the answer. The first was covered in the last post, the gist …
It’s not what you say, it’s what you do — Matthew 20:28–32
The King’s judgements Matthew has a thing about the number 3 when it comes to parables. The parables in chapters 8 and 9 are grouped in three groups of three, and here there are another three parables. The context is that Jesus has come back into Jerusalem. The last time he overturned the tables of …
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Returning
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 43 Sunday after Ascension 2022 Christ has died,Christ is risen,Christ will come again. Heart-shaped cloudImage from Pixabay In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the …
A pictorial meditation on the name of Jesus
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 42
Beloved Son
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 6 and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”Matthew 3:16-17 The feast of the Baptism of Jesus is celebrated on 6th January, …
Bread of Life
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 5 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.John 6:35 I have written about this before, in 2016. It took me two posts to do it. Here they are, …
Gatekeepers — Matthew 21:23–27
The King’s judgements It is easy to take this passage on its own as a question of where the authority of Jesus comes from and use it to branch out into what Christians believe the authority of Jesus to be; there's nothing wrong with that and I will be doing it later. Bear in mind …
It wasn’t the fig tree’s fault — Matthew 21:18–22
The King’s judgements One thing to remember when reading through Matthew's Gospel is that things are not necessarily consecutive, Matthew was writing a gospel, not a history, but they are carefully placed so that the stories that run together affect each other. The previous passage had children praising Jesus because of his miracles but the …
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Making an ass of myself 