Do good, be punished

After John 11 

He had turned water

into wine, he had fed

5,000, he had calmed

storms, he had healed

lepers. He had saved

children, and now he

raised a man from

the dead. This was

too much; they feared

this miracle worker,

this rabble rouser;

they feared he would

become so strong that

he would attract the eyes

of the overlords, that

this man threatened 

everything they were,

everything they had.

The decision: he must

die for the good of all.

Better one man die

than the whole nation

perish.

 

Photograph by Ashkan Forouzani via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

To Translate the Ocean – SDG Morgan at Bandersnatch Books.

 

Grief and lament in Texas: Weeping with hope – Melissa Bondurant at CDM Women’s Ministry.

 

Don’t overlook Sunday – Stephen Kneale at Building Jerusalem.

 

A Matter of Politics? – Jean Danielou at The Imaginative Conservative.