Tag: Lent
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Lent 2020 – Day 30
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…
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Lent 2020 – Day 29
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…
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Lent 2020 – Day 28
Luke 7:18 John’s disciples told him all about these things [the progress of Jesus’s ministry]. Calling two of them, he sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” In this chapter, Luke devotes another 19 verses to John the Baptist and his…
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Lent 2020 – Day 27
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me Lord; I am a sinful man!” For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. This chapter in…
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Lent 2020 – Day 26
Luke 4:42-43 At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. But he said, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God in the other towns also, because that is…
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Lent 2020 – Day 25
Luke 4:36 All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What is this teaching? With authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits and they come out!” After his rejection in Nazareth, Jesus returns to Capernaum and the contrast could not be greater. From an audience that could not see beyond the…
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