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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Theological Perspective The journey through Galilee is now finished, and Jesus “set[s] his face to go to Jerusalem.” He is resolute, single minded, and prophetic in the manner of Moses and Elijah, with whom he has conversed in 9:28–36. Yet Jesus is more than a prophet. He is the Messiah. In this text Jesus begins in earnest to prepare his disciples for what lies ahead. The tone is sober. Jesus has already begun to warn the disciples that he will be betrayed and put to death (9:21–22,
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