The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A

The Fourth Sunday of Lent - Year A

Ezekiel 37.1–14
Romans 8.6–11
John 11.1–45

‘Resurrection’ began as a metaphor for the return from exile. Ezekiel’s surreal vision was an image of Israel, ‘dead’ in Babylon, being restored to her own land. It goes with the promises of the previous chapters, promises of covenant renewal, of cleansing from sin, of God’s gift of a new heart, a new spirit. The God who breathed into human nostrils at creation will do so again. Covenant renewal will mean new creation. After Easter

Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright

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