Tag: Matthew
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The Stone the Builders Rejected
“‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” – Luke 20:17b-18 Jesus had taught at Temple before. He was welcomed as a learned Rabbi (teacher) in synagogues throughout Judea, a Godly teacher…
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Matthew 23:37 [also Luke 13:34] “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me…
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Three Widows & a Widower
Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…
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