Tom Wright tells the story of the historian...
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Tom Wright tells the story of the historian who was hurrying to finish his Ph.D. dissertation. He was on his last chapter and he needed to check a painting and the artists who had influenced this work.
Wright explains what happened: "He went hastily from gallery to gallery. In every room he walked around beside the walls, scribbling in his notebook, taking down all the details from the printed notices underneath the paintings. He wrote down the artists' names, their dates, where they lived, the names of their key paintings, who their friends were, what influence others had had on them, and they on others. As soon as he finished he went on to the next gallery."
Wright concluded by saying in all that he did the historian did not take time to look at the paintings themselves. Jesus also wanted his hearers to look beyond the bread and the fish to see the real meaning of what he had done.
Wright explains what happened: "He went hastily from gallery to gallery. In every room he walked around beside the walls, scribbling in his notebook, taking down all the details from the printed notices underneath the paintings. He wrote down the artists' names, their dates, where they lived, the names of their key paintings, who their friends were, what influence others had had on them, and they on others. As soon as he finished he went on to the next gallery."
Wright concluded by saying in all that he did the historian did not take time to look at the paintings themselves. Jesus also wanted his hearers to look beyond the bread and the fish to see the real meaning of what he had done.
