A Biblical studies professor of mine once said “beware of gaps in the lectionary”. Beware the places where verses get skipped over. Where stuff gets left out.
Okay, so you may be wondering, is this going to be one of those quasi-esoteric sermons that focuses on inconsequential details that only Scripture nerds care about? I mean, how much difference can it make, that in today’s Gospel reading from Matthew 13, the North American Consultation on Common Texts, in collaboration with the International English Language Liturgical Consultation, in the final version they released in 1994, after 9 years of trial use, concluded that we need not bother with what sits between Jesus’ parable about the wheat and the weeds and the interpretation that he gives later to his inner circle? (read more)
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