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Strangely, Jesus is mostly absent from today’s story. Jesus speaks in verses 1-7 and 35-41. He is present in the remaining verses that const...

A Certain Ruler Luke 18:18-30. Oct. 27th, 2022 Verbatim fragments   This certain ruler must have been quite excited when Jesus sa...

  It is tempting to make the two people in the Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector into characters in a kind of 19 th century pantomi...

The Text There are a few idiosyncrasies in the text that, when explained, help in understanding the story of Jesus healing ten lepers . 1. ...

How is it that ‘faith’ has come to mean believing something unwarranted, as though faith is intellectual acceptance of a proposition with no...

Ann Nadge, a poet I know, has distilled some of the posts from this blog into poetry. She has used my words verbatim, captured the essence...

  It is important to notice that in this passage Jesus is no longer talking to his disciples. The previous parable of the Unjust Manager (...

This might be the most difficult parable of Jesus to interpret. It is just not that clear what we should make of it.  • Most people object ...

God desires all people to be saved. ( 1Timothy 2:4 ; 2Peter 3:9) No favourites. But how does that work with Israel as the Chosen People ? Wh...

Faith is a subtle human phenomenon. Sometimes I call it a practice to break the usual reflex to reduce faith down to the intellectual assent...

  The saying of Jesus to hate is harsh. But in the time of Jesus it didn’t carry the meaning we attach to it. It is more about attitude and...

The Book of Hebrews was written for a community of faith that was clinging to faith in Jesus , but only just. They were being persecuted...

 In this story of Jesus with Mary and Martha , what is it that distracts Martha? And from what is she distracted? A common answer is that ...

  This is a strange story to modern ears. Although, there are universal insights within the passage that transcend time. Three parts of th...