The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year C

The Seventh Sunday of Easter
(Sunday after Ascension Day)

Acts 16.16–34
Revelation 22.12–14, 16–17, 20–21
John 17.20–end

If Luke had wanted to play down the trouble caused by the gospel, he would quietly have omitted the Philippi story. Healing for one person means loss of money for others, and produces political and cultural charges which, though a blatant cover for self-interest, have sufficient plausibility to result in beatings and imprisonment...