Day 29: second coming foretold; parable of the persistent widow, and the Pharisee & the tax collector
chronological assignment for October 29: John 11
For more information about this study, see my introduction.
I follow two Bible reading plans yearly, one chronological and one with a daily Old Testament and New Testament reading. I publish those daily readings and prayer here. At the start of 2023, I started summarizing the books of the Bible, and those summaries can be found here.
In this chronological study, as we follow various clues in the Gospel writers’ accounts, we depart from daily assigned reading in the chronological plan that I follow, which usually assigns most or all of whole chapters. Since we look at smaller segments consisting of particular verses from all the accounts about the events of Jesus’ life and ministry, sometimes we find ourselves behind and sometimes we find ourselves ahead of the daily chronological assigned reading plan.
We’ve had three days in a row where what we studied matched what was in the assigned reading, but today we diverge again. The assigned reading plan, for October 29, goes on to John 11, which takes place in the last week of Jesus’ life. We still have some events to study in Luke and the other gospels before we get to that week. Those events will help us resolve this time course.
As I keep repeating, from the end of Luke 9 to the beginning of Luke 19, it is quite difficult to reconcile Luke’s timeline with any of the other Gospel accounts. He seems to use this long section in his Gospel to recount a lot of Jesus’ teaching, which we find elsewhere in other accounts. Instead of separating Luke’s accounts into the other Gospel writers’ accounts, we are reading them in bulk just as Luke wrote them.
LUKE 17:20-37 : second coming foretold
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