Sunday 24 March
Read Luke 20:27–21:6
Think
Lk 20:27-40 – The Sadducees try to catch Jesus out on the
question of resurrection. His answer is
to show that everlasting life existed (although obscurely) even in the first
five books of Moses. The Sadducees
accepted the first five books but not the works of the prophets in which we
find more explicit references to life after death.
Lk 20:41-21:6 – Jesus again warns the people against ‘false
religion’. He points out a widow offering her last coins; condemns the
injustice of her exploitation and prophesies the destruction of the temple.
Pray
Pray that we wouldn’t be like the scribes. Convinced of our own self righteousness and
negligent of our own brokenness.
