Luke 4:24-30 Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue: ‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. ‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah’s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged […]
John 2:13-25 Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the […]
In the last of these mini-essays the focus was on the apparently deliberate eucharistic overtones in the accounts of the multiplication of the loaves. Attention was drawn to how in Mark’s Gospel it is pointed out that Pharisees and disciples alike miss the point of the miracle, of the invitation made to life-giving communion with […]
