Posted each Thursday, Lectionary Ruminations focuses on the
Scripture Readings, taken from the New Revised Standard Version, for the
following Sunday per the
Revised Common Lectionary. Comments and questions are intended to encourage
reflection for readers preparing to teach, preach, or hear the Word. Reader
comments are invited and encouraged. All lectionary links are to the New
Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
of the Bible via the PC(USA)
Devotions and Readings website, but if you prefer another translation, feel
free to use that instead. (Other references may be linked to the NRSV via the oremus Bible Browser.) Lectionary
Ruminations is also cross-posted on my personal blog, Summit to Shore.
v. 5 What happened the day
before? Who are “they” of the “their”?
v. 6 Annas and Caiaphas I
am familiar with. Who are John and
Alexander?
v. 7 What prisoners? Did what?
vs. 8-10 Peter’s response
might have been better received if he had not accused his interlocutors of
crucifying Jesus.
v. 11 What is Peter
quoting, or quoting from?
v. 12 This sounds like
confessional language.
vs. 1-6 Is this Psalm too
familiar for us to hear it anew?
v. 1 Note that in the NRSV,
LORD is all uppercase. So what?
v. 2 Have you ever lied
down in a green pasture?
v. 4 What is the darkest
valley you have ever walked through? Are
a rod and a staff two different things or is this an example of Hebraic poetic
repetition?
v. 5 Have you ever eaten a
meal in the presence of your enemies?
Has your head ever been anointed with oil?
v. 6 What and where is the
house of the LORD?
v. 16 Who is “he”? What
does it mean to lay down one’s life?
v. 17 Ouch! Here is a verse for the 99% of Occupy Wall
Street.
v. 18 Why the moniker
“little childen”?
v. 19 Considering verse 16,
it is beginning to sound like “truth” is being personified.
vs. 20-21 It sounds like
one’s heart is the same as one inner voice or conscience.
vs.23-24 Where have I heard
something like this before?
v. 11 And which Psalm are
you know thinking of?
v. 12 Who is the hired
hand?
v. 16 I love this verse and
its invitation to think about Christian universalism. What does it mean for there to be many folds
in one flock?
v. 17 Does the Father NEED
a reason to love the Son?
v. 18 What command?
ADDENDUM
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