Proper 16 Year B

Proper 16

1 Kings 8.[1,6,10-11]22-30, 41-43
Ephesians 6.10-20
John 6.56-69


Jesus returns, at the end of the long ‘bread of life’ discourse, to the central thrust. Don’t look for more loaves and fishes; look for the different dimension of life which the Son of Man offers, the dimension which will be signalled by his eventual exaltation to be with the Father.

All very well, but today’s hearers are almost bound to misunderstand. ‘The spirit gives life; the flesh is useless’; fine, we think, and off we go with Plato into radical dualism. Don’t worry, we think, about the world of space, time and matter; concern yourself with the world of pure spirit...

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