[Propertalk] Gospel sermon tidbits - March 21 - Part 3

[Joe Parrish]

Here in our story, now is the time to be glad for human vulnerability. Such vulnerability is the other side of the compassion of Jesus. Jesus observes: such compassion and meetings of compassion and vulnerability invite death, a typically enigmatic response.

http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~loader/LkLent5.htm

William Loader
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"Our friend had already done two full courses of chemotherapy and through it all had somehow managed to complete a doctoral dissertation at U. Va. She had done it. To celebrate she and her husband rented a VFW hall, hired a band, and threw one of the biggest parties I've ever seen for the whole church and half the community. Two days before graduation her doctors confirmed that the cancer was back. The experimental treatments would begin the day after graduation. Only a few of us knew it, and my guess is we would have limped through the ceremony and canceled the party.

http://maryhinkle.typepad.com/pilgrim_preaching/2004/03/are_we_having_f.html

Richard Lischer, quoted by Mary Hinkle, 2004
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The word for "being (or reclining) at table" (anakeimai, v. 2) is also used of the posture in the upper room (13:23, 28), and of the feeding of the 5000 (6:11). Reclining to eat indicates a festive banquet. It also makes it feasible for Mary to anoint his feet -- they were not underneath the table as would be typical of our eating posture -- sitting on chairs at the table.

http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/john12x1.htm

Brian Stoffregen
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