John 6:56-59
Proper 16B
[…] to where he was before seems an odd insertion into a passage that had otherwise not come anywhere near broaching such an image or idea of an ascension. Nor does Jesus do much with this himself in the subsequent verses. But as Donald Juel once pointed out, this does hang together with earlier references […]
John 20:19-23
Pentecost A
[…] popped into that locked room, he was bursting with the new life of the kingdom. Although there would finally be a certain order of events upcoming, including Ascension and then Pentecost, there was really no containing the power that coursed through Jesus at that time. Resurrection life had to make some kind of an […]
John 20:19-23
Pentecost A
[…] popped into that locked room, he was bursting with the new life of the kingdom. Although there would finally be a certain order of events upcoming, including Ascension and then Pentecost, there was really no containing the power that coursed through Jesus at that time. Resurrection life had to make some kind of an […]
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Easter Day B
[…] his contemporaries. No one actually saw Jesus rise from the dead. But Paul reports that lots of people saw him during the time between his resurrection and ascension to the heavenly realm. Those sightings resemble a series of concentric circles. Like ripples caused by a stone dropped in a pond, the risen Jesus’ appearances […]
Psalm 97
Easter 7C
[…] Exiled Israel needed to hear that message. In our day of power politics, so do we. Further, this Psalm helps us see the earth-shaking importance of Christ’s Ascension, which we celebrate on this seventh Sunday of the Easter season. As Easter fades into the distance and Pentecost rustles just around the corner, we need […]
1 Peter 3:18-22
Lent 1B
[…] is the perfect example. More than that, Peter is pointing to a greater and higher reality than our suffering, namely, the reality of Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension. As we work our way through the tangled jungle of this famously difficult text (see my previous comments about that difficulty in the May 19 piece), […]
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