The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year B

The Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passiontide begins)

Jeremiah 31.31–34
Hebrews 5.5–10
John 12.20–33

Imagine the simple request echoing along the corridors of church bureaucracy. It is passed from office to office, from secretary to secretary. It is left on voice-mails and e-mails, faxed through to headquarters, scribbled in shorthand for later typed memos. They phone the biblical studies departments, but they are busy with the Christology of Q and the pseudonymity of Ephesians. They call the history depart-ments, but they have stopped talking about people and events and now explore the social construction of fictive narratival worlds. And the Greeks at the feast, then and now, wait patiently with their request: Sir, we wish to see Jesus...


Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B by N T Wright