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Challenge for fellow #Christians. #Lent starts this coming Wednesday. It is 40 days (if you do not include Sundays). Mark has 16 chapters. Luke has 24. Combined that is one chapter per day for you to read. As above, do not read on Sundays - listen to what is read in church instead.
Who will join me in this #Bible reading challenge?
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Luke 20

Here we have Jesus in the temple crossing swords with the religious rulers. The Sadducees (including the "Chief Priests") mostly stayed around the temple, while the Pharisees were to be found in the synagogues throughout Israel. While Jesus has been mostly dealing with Pharisees up until now, we are now seeing the Sadducees. This group seems to be trying to trap Jesus into saying something wrong - and failing. In return Jesus has a couple of goes at them - with parables and questions, and then a straight out attack at the end of the chapter. Thanks to Jesus they were losing the respect of the people - no wonder they wanted him out of the way.

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Show threadKerr Avonsen (she/her)4d ago

Luke 20

It's interesting that in this version of the "By what authority do you teach?" questioning, the Chief Priests were said to be afraid "that the people would stone them" - which is a rather more dire situation than just "being afraid of the people" -- which I had taken to be mere pride, a fear of being unpopular. Really was everyone so violent then? That's hard to take in.

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