United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
November 20 2015
Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 501
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/112015.cfm
1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59
The usual stuff of God using people to kill people He doesn't like and then approving when their possessions are stolen by His people.
It's a shame about the cherry picking here because the whole chapter is worth reading for the rather comical references to God's people "falling on their faces". Not funny at first but after the third time... LOL
There is some confusion about how many soldiers Lysias had. There are three values to choose from:
- 60,000 (1 Maccabees 4:28)
- 80,000 (2 Maccabees 11:2)
- 110,000 (2 Maccabees 13:2)
1 Chronicles 29:10BCD, 11ABC, 11D-12A, 12BCD
The interesting line here is:
"all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine."
So clearly God owns the earth, and there are verses in Genesis and Exodus and Psalms which agree.
But there's also a verse in Psalms which says the "earth belongs to the children of men."
Doh!
John 10:27
"My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me."
And we know what happens to sheep don't we? (No that's not what I meant -I mean they get slaughtered).
Luke 19:45-48
As promised yesterday, Jesus gets angry and deliberately knocks over some tables. (To be fair, He was provoked and He's only human).
Now, you may have noticed that the description in Luke doesn't mention anything about tables being knocked over. That happens in slightly different versions of the story found in John and Matthew. The version in Matthew has Jesus armed with a whip!
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With thanks to Steve Wells
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Skeptics-Annotated-Bible-Version/dp/0988245108
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