Emphasis Preaching Journal
It happens all the time...
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It happens all the time in our Sunday morning worship. A lay person comes forward at an appointed time to read aloud the Holy Scriptures selected for the day. So it happened in Jesus' time. People stood up to read aloud the Scriptures in the synagogue. In today's Gospel we see Jesus himself performing this function.
Had the people truly known who was reading to them (as Jesus subtly informed them after the reading), no doubt they would have listened with far greater care and attention.
Had the people truly known who was reading to them (as Jesus subtly informed them after the reading), no doubt they would have listened with far greater care and attention.