Showing posts with label Jesus the teacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus the teacher. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 October 2024

Jesus drew the crowds

Not far from the end of the Jesus account we read:
David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with delight (Mark 12:37 NIV). But - why were the crowd delighted? Apart from the members of the elite whom Jesus questioned, was it true of everyone else there?
Not so long before that, there was a (different) crowd that was far from delighted, in fact it was dangerously disturbed:

Monday, 30 November 2020

From (the) Evil

"Deliver us from evil" is the familiar request. Are we (being) delivered from evil?

That request might have been made by victims; perhaps even by the perpetrators.... (I do not imagine it is hard to apply the word "evil" to what the images evoke.)