“[W]hen the sabbath was over” (16:1), the women bought what they needed to finish the unfinished burial rites. They couldn’t finish! The law made them unable to finish. The traditional…
Strange, how something so good begins with something so bad. Jesus is told his cousin has been executed, murdered. John the Baptist is dead: he didn’t compromise the message. Can…
A shoot from a stump. We’ve seen that; that happens. The stump about which Isaiah speaks is the stump of David, cut down, cut off (11:1). In Columbia Lakes just…