Jesus said to the crowd: “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
Read MoreAnd they said: “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”
Read MoreThe gospels record many incidents when Jesus and the Pharisees get into controversies. And because of this, the Pharisees get kind of a bad rap, even though the Pharisees and Jesus were actually quite similar in many ways.
Read MoreJesus asked the Twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom else can we go?”
Read MoreJesus said: “Those who chew up and devour my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”
Read MoreJesus said: “The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The first reading today is a small snippet of a larger story about the prophet Elijah that, for me at least, is one of the most important stories in the Bible.
Read MoreSo it’s the morning after Jesus has fed the five thousand with a little bread and fish. At first the crowd wanted to make Jesus the king, and Jesus ran away.
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