Gospel commentary index Lectionary Year A
On this page, you can find an index to all the commentary articles on the gospel lectionary readings for the whole of Year A, together with links to the video discussions between Ian and James. The articles will be reposted with updates during the year—but they are listed here for convenience and planning ahead.
Enduring suffering like Jesus in 1 Peter 2 video discussion
The lectionary epistle for Easter 4 is 1 Peter 2.19–end. Peter sees out a challenge call for us to endure suffering following the example of Jesus.
But to make proper sense of this, we need to read it in its context, and notice the different language that Peter uses of us as slaves of God, living in obedience to him, and servants of others, submitting ourselves to their authority.
The gospel reading for this week is John 10, Jesus as the good shepherd. The video discussion is here,
and written commentary is here.
What can we learn from Herod Antipas?
John Hudghton writes: Jesus and the Rat King I am sometimes shocked at how little knowledge there is amongst clergy and congregations of the geopolitical context of Jesus’ ministry. Maybe…
Meeting Jesus on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24
The lectionary readings for the Third Sunday in Easter ignore the particular gospel for the year, and instead cycle round Luke 24 and John 21: in Year B we have…
The impartiality of God’s love in 1 Peter 1 video discussion
The lectionary epistle for Easter 3 in Year A is 1 Peter 1.17–23. In this section, Peter begins by reflecting on the significant of the impartiality of God’s love—he is…
The gender of Jesus in the Book of Revelation
At the Society of Biblical Literature annual conference in Atlanta in 2015, I attended several papers on the Book of Revelation. The one that I have continued to think about—and…
Truth, history, the Church Commissioners, and reparative justice
Professor Richard Dale writes: KICKING IN THE CATHEDRAL DOOR How the Church Commissioners relied on bogus history to denounce their predecessors and vilify their own Church It is over three…
Having our doubts about Thomas in John 20
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the Second Sunday in Easter is John 20.19–31, which includes Jesus’ encounter with so-called ‘doubting Thomas’. It is the set reading for this week…
The experience of Easter
He’s gone. The, the tomb….the stone’s rolled away! Jesus….He’s not there….I’ve just run the whole way back…. I had to tell you. This is mad. Completely crazy. You’re all looking…
Do the gospels contradict each other on Holy Week?
I am reposting again this year the article I post most years in Easter, on the question of whether the gospel accounts contradict each other in their schedule of the…
The future of the Anglican Communion? part 2
Andrew Goddard writes: Twenty years ago, in June 2006, Archbishop Rowan Williams wrote in his significant and still-worth-reading reflection, “The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today” There is…
Empty tomb and risen Jesus in John 20
The discovery by two disciples of the empty tomb, and Mary Magdelene’s encounter with Jesus, in John 20.1–18, is one of the main options for the gospel reading for Easter…
