Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints’ Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one...

Exegetical Perspective This week’s reading depicts the beginning of the ministry of John “the Baptist.” The reading, short as it may be, fills the important role of introducing a new prophet. First, in echoes of the OT prophets, Luke sets John’s ministry in the political context of the time (cf. Isa. 1:1; Jer. 1:1–3; Ezek. 1:1–3; Hos. 1:1; Amos 1:1; Mic. 1:1; Zeph. 1:1; Hag. 1:1; Zech. 1:1). This historical setting deserves more than passing attention. First, it serves as a reminder that God’s promises

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