This weekend our culture dictates we change our clocks. The sun will still rise at the same chronos, or linear time, although our clocks will read differently Sunday morning. We’ll have the same number of daylight hours, but will experience light earlier in the morning. This is good for those…
A crowd greeted Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey’s colt only days before the Passover feast. Even though many would celebrate the Jewish festival, the multitude also included Greeks. More surprising, according to John, some Greeks were among those who had come to worship at Passover. Then…
This week we read John’s record of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem before his final Passover celebration with the disciples. All four gospels contain this event; you might want to compare and contrast the accounts to better envision this scene in Jesus’ earthly ministry. Many scholars have written about the…
In our reading last week, after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he escaped to Ephraim—but the time was close enough to the Passover that many Jews had already come to Jerusalem. John recorded the exact point in the timeline for this scene: six days before the Passover, Jesus returned…
Last week I traveled, with a laptop, without a charger. Which delayed this post. As we reflected in our last reading, Jesus meets us in the busy times and the pauses. He showed up last week with new insight as I read about the Pharisees’ plot to kill Jesus in…