Editing Talk:Fast Fridays: 30 Minutes for God (section)

== Holy Week: Jesus makes it plain ==
As we approach Holy Week, we can start considering the events of that week. Several come to mind today, the first two we'll take from Matthew, which our Gospels chronology puts at Monday and Tuesday, and the other from Luke, which we will see is related to it, marked as on Wed or Thurs: [https://biblechronology.net/ChronologyOfTheFourGospels-changes%20from%202019-06-05.pdf Chronology of the Four Gospels]

First, we have the Cleansing of the Temple, which is in all the synoptics (John relates another instance the first year of his Ministry). It's like, ''whaaa''?  He comes into the city to Hosannas, then drives out the money changers? What's most remarkable is not that the Sanhedrin didn't arrest him then and there, but that immediately after declaring it a "den of thieves",<blockquote>The blind and the lame approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/21?23 Mt 21:12-15])</blockquote>The "priests and scribes" challenge him, but

From Matthew, we have the Parable of the Tenants, in which Jesus lays it out there plainly. The Pharisees knew they were going to kill him. He knew they were going to kill him, and now they knew that Jesus knew that they were going to kill him. [[User:Michael Bromley|Michael Bromley]] ([[User talk:Michael Bromley|talk]]) 11:23, 21 March 2025 (EDT)