Thoughts for the Day

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…

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…

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…

Luke 11:53-54 When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might say. After yesterday’s barrage against the Pharisees, one of the experts of the law eating with them replied to Jesus, “Teacher, you insult…

Luke 11:37-38 When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table.  But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised. Curiously topical … almost!  At this time when hand-washing is our first line of defence against…

Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee [Simon]  who had invited him [Jesus, to dinner] saw this [the woman anointing Jesus’s feet], he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is – that she is a sinner.” Jesus certainly engaged with the…

Luke 5:17, 21 One day as he [Jesus] was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there … [they] began thinking to themselves “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” We are going…

Luke 7:29-30 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right because they had been baptised by John.  But the Pharisees and experts of the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptised by John.) Luke adds this verse in parentheses, but…