Tag: pharisees

  • 1st March 2026, Lent 2, Year A

    St John 3: 1-17 The mission of Christ: saving the world 3:1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 3:2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs…

  • 31st August 2025, 12th Sunday after Pentecost

    St Luke 14: 1, 7-14 Invite the poor to your banquet 14:1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely. 14:7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them…

  • 16th  March 2025 , 2nd Sunday of Lent, Yr C

    Luke 13:31-35 A hen gathering her brood 13:31At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 13:32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third…

  • Proper 22 (27), 6th October 2024

    Mark 10:2-16 Teaching on marriage 10:2Some testing him, asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 10:3He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 10:4They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” 10:5But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he…

  • Preaching Paths 6 October 2024 Proper 22

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary In today’s Gospel reading (Mark 10:2-16), some Pharisees ask Jesus to vote up or down the lawfulness of divorcing one’s wife. Their motive may be less than innocent; they may hope he will answer in a way that draws the attention and ire of Herodias, who married…

  • Preaching Paths 2 June 2024 Proper 4B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s text, Mark 2:23-3:6, presents two scenes in which questions around sabbath observance are at stake. If we trace our way backward through these scenes and the preceding ones, we discover a concatenation of issues, each “nested,” in a sense, within a broader one.  We find that…

  • Proper 4 (9) Second Sunday after Pentecost, 2nd June 2024

    Mark 2:23-3:62:23 One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 2:24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” 2:25 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did…