The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C
Taken from Twelve Months of Sunday year c
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
Description
The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Joshua 5.9–12
2 Corinthians 5.16–end
Luke 15.1–3, 11b–end
At Gilgal the Israelites, like the prodigal, exchanged the food of the wilderness for the food of home. In a dense little scene, explicable only in its wider context, the covenant signs come rushing together: Jordan, circumcision, passover, the fruit of the land. From that moment on, without as yet a sword drawn or a city taken, the Israelites had come home...
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