Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost; 13 November 2022; Proper 28C (RCL); Isaiah 65:17-25; Canticle 9; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19.
We are clearly winding down the liturgical year — we’ve arrived at the apocalyptic material in Luke’s Gospel. Luke tones down significantly what he borrows from Mark’s Gospel, pushing the impending end even farther into the future. Even the arrest of the disciples will not signal the end. Luke has change Mark’s material neatly to give us a hint of what’s in store for Peter, and especially for Paul in the second volume of Luke/Acts. Paul will make his defense before kings and governors, but clearly not ad lib, but in carefully crafted speeches.
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