Lent 2020
Lent 2020 – Day 40
Luke 23:56 Then [after seeing Jesus’s body placed in the tomb] they [the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee] went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. Waiting! Suddenly, but not for the first time, women take centre stage in Luke’s narrative. I…
Lent 2020 – Day 39
Luke 23:44-46 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this,…
Lent 2020 – Day 38
Luke 22:28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. There are so many things that one could reflect on from the Last Supper: Jesus’s institution of the Lord’s supper, his treatment of Judas, his washing the disciples’ feet, his reference to conferring a Kingdom on them, his prayers for Simon Peter. …
Lent 2020 – Day 37
Luke 20:1b-3 … the chief priests and the teachers of the law together with the elders came up to him. “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?” He replied, “I will ask you a question. Tell me, John’s baptism – was it from heaven or…
Lent 2020 – Day 36
Luke 20:47 Every day he [Jesus] was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words. If I knew I were going…
Lent 2020 – Day 35
Luke 19:37b-40 …the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen. “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your…
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