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2 Chronicles 36: 14-16. 19-23
Such was the persistence of God’s people in pursuing their own way and ignoring the Lord’s that they found themselves exiled from the land promised to them. But the Lord worked through Cyrus, a gentile, to restore his people to their land and relationship with him.
Ephesians 2: 4-10
The great gift of God’s boundless love and grace comes to us in Jesus, and fills our everyday lives in the Spirit. When we hand ourselves over to the Lord’s love, he recreates us as his works of art.
John 3: 14-21
Nicodemus has come to Jesus by night. In the shadows of this conversation of wondering and searching, Jesus speaks of the love of the Father and the healing that is made possible for all people through the gift of his own life and his sacrifice on the cross.
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Exodus 20: 1-17
The Lord who has brought his people out of slavery gives them his commandments
1 Corinthians 1: 22-25
God’s foolishness, the crucified Christ, is wiser than human wisdom.
John 2: 13-25
Jesus replaces the Temple with the temple of his own body.
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Genesis 22: 1-2. 9-13. 15-18
God pours blessings upon those who trust.
Romans 8: 31-34
God holds nothing back in love for us.
Mark 9: 2-10
Jesus appears in glory to Peter, James and John. The disciples do not know what is happening, but Jesus tells them to tell nobody about this until after the Resurrection.
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Genesis 9: 8-15
God tells Noah of a covenant, a binding agreement that will exist between God and Noah – and Noah’s descendants.
1 Peter 3: 18-22
At the start of Lent we are reminded that the innocent Christ died for the guilty, to lead us to God. This passage links the waters of the flood in Noah’s time to the waters of baptism by which we come to life in Christ who died for us.
Mark 1: 12-15
This experience undergone by Jesus after his baptism is not so much a temptation as a time of ‘testing’. Unlike Matthew and Luke, Mark does not describe the testings.
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Leviticus 13: 1-2. 44-46
Separation from the community is a rule laid down for those with a contagious disease.
1 Corinthians 10: 31-11:1
Christ Jesus is the true model of life.
Mark 1: 40-45
Jesus heals a leper and finds he has to stay outside.