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The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.
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What we need to know between weeks three and four of Easter is that we are revisiting a moment we started in Lent.
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The lectionary goes straight from Easter 1 to 2. But the story of Jesus’s appearance in the locked room is missing something.
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The vain attempt to cover all of the action that takes place between the two Sundays. At least the first part anyway.
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As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.
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A lot happens before the Transfiguration. But something right before it colors how we might understand it.