The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year A
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany - Year A
1 Kings 17: 8-16
1 Corinthians 1: 18-31
John 2: 1-11
The third day; it would be. John does nothing by accident. New creation bursts in upon a village wedding, itself a sign of hope. Wine is to water as the new world is to the old; bubbling up, taking people by surprise, confounding expectations, raising questions, raising the dead.
Other overtones crowd in too. Jewish purification rites belong with the old creation, but Jesus belongs in the new. ‘Woman, what is there between us? My hour...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright
Published by SPCK
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