Luke 22:63-23:12 Dear RTB’ers, Today Carol and I and Rachel and Christian and family have traveled 2.5 hours west to Ferdinand, Indiana to enjoy 2 minutes, 20 seconds of total eclipse and 3+ hours of partial eclipse. So a bit delayed… So now in our readings we have clearly hit Friday morning and the Jewish …
Category Archives: RTB 2024 – Search the Scriptures, Part 1
April 7 / Luke 22:47-62
Luke 22:47-62 Dear RTB’ers, Sorry for the late posting – we have out-of-town visitors. Finally today we near the end of Maundy (Holy) Thursday in our readings. I keep mentioning this because the days seem to run together in Jesus’ Holy Week life if we’re not careful to distinguish the days and the hours. So …
April 6 / Luke 22:31-46
Luke 22:31-46 Dear RTB’ers, We are still at Maundy (Holy) Thursday in our readings, terminating the meal and then leaving for the Garden of Gethsemane, where tomorrow’s reading will have soldiers arresting Jesus. Think of all that we have on this Thursday of Holy Week, putting together information from all four gospels: Jesus foot-washing; the …
April 5 / Luke 22:14-30
Luke 22:14-30 Dear RTB’ers, Here at the Last Supper, Jesus is instituting for us the Eucharist that we celebrate each Sunday: simple bread and wine for which we remember His suffering – His body and His blood. The words in today’s reading may not sound completely familiar to us, because the words that we use …
April 4 / Luke 22:1-13
Luke 22:1-13 Dear RTB’ers, Satan entered into Judas… (Luke 22:3). Luke is the only synoptic gospel writer who makes this point. I typically think of Luke as an historian, not a theologian. But here he is making a statement none of the others are making. John makes the same point in John 13:27, at the …
April 3 / Luke 21:25-38
Luke 21:25-38 Dear RTB’ers, Now during the day He was teaching in the temple, but at evening He would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. And all the people would get up very early in the morning to come to Him in the temple to listen to Him. …
April 2 / Luke 21:5-24
Luke 21:5-24 Dear RTB’ers, It seems in today’s reading that the Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees are no longer troubling Jesus, but that He is speaking to a smaller group of His followers. As they praise the Temple building, He warns them of the future destruction, nearly four decades later. I’ve gone back and forth on …
April 1 / Luke 20:27-21:4
Luke 20:27-21:4 Dear RTB’ers, It’s always nice to connect the New Testament with the Old Testament. We get an opportunity to do that today, with the Sadducees asking Jesus about the resurrection (trying to trip him up, actually). Their question of seven brothers all dying and all having the same one wife calls to mind …
April 2024 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Apr Luke 20:27-21:4 25 02-Apr Luke 21:5-24 20 03-Apr Luke 21:25-38 14 04-Apr Luke 22:1-13 13 05-Apr Luke 22:14-30 17 06-Apr Luke 22:31-46 16 07-Apr Luke 22:47-62 16 08-Apr Luke 22:63-23:12 21 09-Apr Luke 23:13-31 19 10-Apr Luke 23:32-43 12 11-Apr Luke 23:44-56 13 12-Apr Luke 24:1-12 12 13-Apr Luke 24:13-35 23 …
March 31 / Luke 19:47-20:26
Luke 19:47-20:26 Dear RTB’ers, The Lord is risen! He is risen, indeed! Hallelujah!! The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy Him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on His words. Luke 19:47b-48 The scribes and the …