Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 9:7-9

“John has been raised from the dead”

Everyone was imagining Jesus to be someone very important. They thought of him to be someone of the past. People could not see or visualise greatness in the present times. They always linked greatness to the past. Good things and great things happened only in the past. They could not see greatness in Jesus as a present reality.

Jesus activities and preaching identified him to be one of the prophets of old. They thought that he would be Elijah. Elijah was supposed to come back at the end of times also he had no origin etc. He was also a prophet who proclaimed the truth about one true God. John was also like Elijah that is why he was also considered to be Elijah. Life of Jesus was like that of anyone prophets of the old. They could not see Jesus differently.

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: லூக்கா 9:7-9

‘இறந்த யோவான் உயிருடன் எழுப்பப்பட்டார்”

இயேசுவின் வாழ்வும் பணியும் முந்தைய இறைவாக்கினர்களைப் போல் இருந்தது. இது யாராக இருக்கக்கூடும் என்பது அவரவரது அனுபத்தைப் பொருத்திருந்தது. ஏரோது தன் அனுபவத்தை வைத்து இயேசுவை யோவான் என்றான்.

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 9:1-6

Take nothing for the journey,

They were asked to go around the villages and towns. They have to be on the move. They should never get settled and expect the people to come around them. They have to meet the people where they are and exercise their power over evil where evil is.

For their journey they were asked not to carry food, money, stick etc. Only in the temple and at the time of worship these things are not needed. The twelve are asked to consider their ministry as worship or as temple, the place of worship.

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: லூக்கா 9:1-6

பயணத்திற்குக் கைத்தடி, பை, உணவு, பணம் போன்ற எதையும் எடுத்துக்கொண்டு போகவேண்டாம்.

அவர்களது பயணம் ஒரு திருப்பயணம். இறையாட்சி பயணம். பயணமும் பணியும் வழிபாடு போன்றது.