Tag: leper
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For you will always have the poor
Why mention the poor? Once again, Jesus makes what appears to be an offhand remark about the poor. Jesus often criticized the leaders of Temple and Pharisees for their treatment of the poor; doesn’t this remark catch you off guard? It would be easy enough to lose the context of Jesus’ apparent ambivalence toward the…
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Interrupting Jesus 9 – not too dirty for God
Cleanliness is next to Godliness. You know the old saying (based on an old Hebrew proverb) and preached by John Wesley, among others. Can one so dirty in sin or lifestyle approach God? We are all sinners and none is clean enough without the Living Water. You and I may be able to think of…
