Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 10:13-16

Whoever listens to you listens to me.

Any refusal to the invitation by the disciples would bring the people to disaster. The disaster is going in the opposite direction from God. This would mean throwing themselves into the hands of the pagan power. This would be worse than the sufferings faced by the wicked cities of the Old Testament.

It would be more tolerable for the pagan towns because they were not given such chances and if they were given those chances they would have repented. Repentance is part of the message of the kingdom of God.

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: லூக்கா 10:13-16

உங்களுக்குச் செவிசாய்ப்பவர் எனக்குச் செவிசாய்க்கிறார்

சீடர்களின் அழைப்பை ஏற்காத மக்கள் ஆபத்தை சந்திப்பர். ஆபத்து என்பது கடவுளின் எதிர்புரத்தில் செல்லுதல். புpற இனத்தாரைப்போல் ஆதலாகும்.

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 10:1-12

After this the Lord appointed seventy (-two) others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit

Were there seventy or seventy two? There has been much discussion on this. It should have had some symbolic meaning. If Luke was seeing Jesus in the light of Moses then the symbolic meaning had an interesting result. Moses chose 70 elders to assist him and thy were given a share in God’s spirit (Numbers 11.16,25). The 70 were to assist Moses in leading the people (exodus). Here Jesus has begun a journey of New Exodus and hence the 70 were appointed to assist in this mission.

The message of the 70 was, ‘Peace to this household’. But the Jews of the time of Jesus were for all out war against the Romans and Samaritans etc. They wanted justice to be done which would only mean destroying the enemy. But the kingdom that Jesus was ushering in was to reveal the love of God and that too a healing love of God. This healing love of God was seen in peace, peace with everyone. So the new exodus was leading people forward to the kingdom with peace and not looking backward (to Egypt for the people of Israel at the time of Moses) with violence and hatred towards enemies.

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: லூக்கா 10:1-12

இதற்குப்பின்பு ஆண்டவர் வேறு எழுபத்திரண்டு (எழுபது) பேரை நியமித்து, அவர்களைத் தாம் போகவிருந்த எல்லா ஊர்களுக்கும் இடங்களுக்கும் தமக்கு முன்னே இருவர் இருவராக அனுப்பினார்.

எழுபதா? எழுபத்திரண்டா? இது ஒரு அடையாள எண் அதற்கு ஒரு பொருளிருக்கவேண்டும். எண்ணிக்கை நூல் 11: 16,25 எழுபது மூப்பர்களைப் பற்றி கூறுகிறது.