Third Sunday of Advent Year A
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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Third Sunday of Advent - Year A
Isaiah 35: 1-10
James 5: 7-10
Matthew 11: 2-11
One of the recently edited Dead Sea Scrolls (no. 521 of the Cave 4 collection, if anyone out there wants the reference) contains a portrait of the coming Messiah that, like Matthew 11, looks back to Isaiah 35: ‘He will... free prisoners, giving sight to the blind, straightening out the twisted... and he will heal the wounded and make the dead live, he will proclaim good news to the meek, give to the needy, lead the exiled and enrich...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright
Published by SPCK
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