The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year A

The Third Sunday of Epiphany - Year A

Isaiah 9.1–4
1 Corinthians 1.10–18
Matthew 4.12–23

Corinth in the first century was a busy,
loud, exciting place. It had been a
reasonably wealthy trading centre for
a couple of centuries at least, and that
had attracted people of many religions
and races to settle there. The Jewish
writer Philo tells us that there was a
flourishing Jewish community in Corinth,
and other classical writers detail temples
to gods and goddesses of the Greek
pantheon, possibly including Aphrodite.
In other words, to be a Corinthian was to
have grown up in a diverse, competitive,
multicultural society. When Christian...

Taken from Lectionary reflections – Year A by Jane Williams

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