weekly reflection: lent 3b
Mar 18th, 2009 |
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” John, ch.2
Lent always takes a sharp turn when we start hearing from John’s Gospel. It was produced in the midst of significant conflict between the emerging Jesus movement and the synagogue, so it comes tinged with a certain amount of Christian triumphalism — most notably in its pejorative focus on ‘the Jews,’ who seem not to do anything right.
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