It is a principle in Jewish law that means saving a life takes precedence over most other Jewish laws, including observance of the sabbath. The particular Pharisees around Jesus go silent when he asks ...

It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent and today’s reading is the healing of our Lord Jesus Christ of the man born blind. If we printed the entire gospel, we’d run out of space. But this passage ...

Pencil Preaching for Tuesday, June 17, 2023. “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath” (Mark 2:28). Heb 6:10-20; Mk 2:23-28. The teaching of Jesus was rarely new.

Two millennia ago, religious and secular authorities colluded to kill a man who preached love and practiced what he preached.

BRATTLEBORO -- Worship begins at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St. in the center of town. Sunday School for children is at 10:15 a.m. Pastor Suzanne Andrews will continue her Lenten ...

After Jesus meets a sick person in a Pharisee's home on the Sabbath day in Luke 14:1-6, ... Jesus heals the man and then tells the Pharisees: "Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a ...

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Jesus, the sabbath and what it means to follow the rules. Molly Cahill September 02, 2022. Photo from iStock. A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time ...

By contrast, the feeding of the 4,000—occurring immediately after Jesus heals the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter—takes place in the Decapolis, which is Gentile territory (Mark 7:31).