Wednesday: Third Week in lent Year A

 WEEK 3: WEDNESDAY

Matthew 15.21–38; focused on 15.21–28

 Let’s listen in on this conversation. Stand in the crowd and see what you think. We’re up north now, away from Galilee. Jesus has already
spoken of this region (‘the district of Tyre and Sidon’) in such a way as to make it clear that he and his Jewish hearers thought of it as
non-Jewish, beyond the pale (11.21). Now he’s come here, we’re not sure why; perhaps to escape, for a while, the con troversy hanging
in the air after his previous exchange with the Pharisees (15.1–20). As we watch from the...

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

Published by SPCK


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The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.