MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - ‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’
MARK THE PEOPLE’S BIBLE COMMENTARY - ‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’
by BRF - Dick France
‘UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!’ MARK 1: 40-45 The man’s complaint may not have been full-scale ‘leprosy’ as we use the word, but it would be an unpleasant skin-disease which was regarded as infectious, and therefore made the sufferer ‘unclean’…
John The People's Commentary - Your Brother Will Rise Again
John The People's Commentary - Your Brother Will Rise Again
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Your Brother Will Rise Again It would probably have been a two day journey back across the Jordan to Bethany, a small village on the edge of Jerusalem. Jesus’ delay of two days plus the journey means that when he arrives Lazarus is not only dead and buried, but has been in his to…
Who Is Welcome As A Guest? (An Entrance Liturgy)
Who Is Welcome As A Guest? (An Entrance Liturgy)
by Norman J Goreham (1931-2021)
This hymn attempts to recreate the atmosphere in the Jerusalem Temple, on occasions when Psalm 15 would have been sung. The reference to the “Tent” in stanza 1 is a flashback to the Tabernacle in the wilderness, considered nostalgically as the Temple’s forerunner.
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