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Mass Lectionary · GospelLuke 19:45–48
Prayer on Fire Gospel Lesson
He enters the temple and drives out those who sold. My house shall be a house of prayer. You have made it a den of robbers. He teaches daily. The chief priests and scribes seek to destroy him, and cannot, because the people hang on his words.
Where this sits
This is the first act inside Jerusalem. The weeping was yesterday's approach. This is the claim on the house.
The house
Prayer is what the house is for. Trade has made it a den. He clears it and then occupies it by teaching. The leaders want him dead and cannot yet act, because the people are listening.
What to take
A house of prayer that has become a market is under his clearing. The word they hang on is the same word the leaders want to kill.
Original – Prayer on Fire
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