Numbers 32 and 33
Luke 7
Numbers:
These chapters are more meaningful if you have some sense of the geography. (If you click on the map below, it will enlarge the map on a different page.)
Crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land was no small feat. And the Eastern side of the Jordan River is beautiful. What is today Southern Syria and Northern Jordan is beautiful land. Remembering that these were not city folks. They were rural people. Their connection to the land, their need of the land, is different than mine is.
Luke:
Chapter 7 is chock full of stories! Luke does not waste any words. Jesus is back in Capernaum. Healing a Centurion's slave (at the request of the Jewish leaders, no less), bringing a widow's son back from death, and addressing the questions of John the Baptist's followers.
What do you make of verse 35? "Wisdom is vindicated by all her children". Compare it to Matt 11:19.
And then there is a great story about hospitality. Yay Luke. Nice chapter.
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