Expansiveness
Monday of the Third Week of Lent Daily Reading : Luke 4:24 – 30 Focus Passage : "Truly I tell you," he continued, "prophets are not accepted in their hometowns. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian." All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. (Lk. 4:24 – 28) The passage actually begins ahead of these verses. The people of Jesus’ hometown were amazed at the gracious words of Jesus when he read from the prophet Isaiah. He connected his life and ministry to the long-awaited Messiah of Isaiah’s prophecy. Knowing his lineage as Joseph’s son (v. 22, “ Isn’t this Joseph’s s...