Luke 13:10-17

Luke 13:10-17

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  • Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
    • Radical Gratitude, lectionary-based stewardship, Northwest United Methodist Foundation. (.pdf)
    • Commentary, Luke 13:10-17, Jeannine K. Brown, Pentecost +13, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
      • "Both themes of praise and rejoicing are emphasized by Luke as appropriate responses to God's work in Jesus (e.g., 7:16) the one who brings the reign of God in healing power to those who most need it."
    • Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
    • "First Thoughts on Year C Gospel Passages in the Lectionary," Pentecost 13, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
      • "God?s focus is not self-aggrandisement as it is with so many who have power and wealth and want to keep it, but generosity and giving, restoration and healing, encouraging and renewing."
    • Exegetical Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
      • "It is the synagogue leader who calls Jesus' actions "healing" (therapeuo in v. 14 twice) -- and thus a "work". He doesn't see it as the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy of releasing from bondage -- or a re-enactment of the Exodus journey from slavery to freedom."
    • "Following the Unwritten Rules," Todd Weir, bloomingcactus, 2010.
      • "I?m not preaching this week, but here are several other examples of controversies from the news where the real issue is in the shadows."
    • "Bent in Half," RMC Morley, a garden path, 2010.
      • "Where does your faith need straightened? Where does the Church need straightened?"
    • Lectionary Blogging, John Petty, Progressive Involvement, 2010.
      • "Note especially the phrase "coming into being" (genomenois).  Most translations have "were done by him."  There is a perfectly good Greek word for "doing"--poieo--but Luke does not use it.  Instead, he uses genomenois, which comes from ginomai, which is a word associated with creation."
    • "Sunday, Sunday," David Lose, Dear Working Preacher, 2010.
      • "I sometimes wonder if we get so caught up in preparing for Sunday ? after all, they come every seven days, ready or not! ? that we lose sight of what Sunday is really about in the first place."
    • "Everything Flows from This," Andrew Prior, the church (re)wired, 2010.
    • "Believing Is Seeing," Peter Woods, I Am Listening, 2010.
      • "In all my encounters with people, am I able to see the reality of the person rather than be swayed what I have been told or experienced of them before this moment? Can I act always without prejudice?"
    • "First Look: Luke 13:10-17," Lee Koontz, Reflectious, 2010.
      • "The language of bondage and freedom is not accidental.  Rather than observing the Sabbath as some moral obligation that shackles the people, Jesus uses it as an occasion to set the people free!"
    • Exegesis, Paul L. Redditt, Lectionary Homiletics sample, 2010.
      • "Jesus was a Galilean man worshipping in a Judean synagogue. In healing the woman Jesus had pretty much upstaged the whole worship service. The leader of the synagogue was incensed at this desecration of the Sabbath within the synagogue itself."
    • "Standing Up Straight," Alyce McKenzie, Patheos, 2010.
      • "The exact thing that she cannot do and yearns to do is precisely the thing Jesus empowers her to do."
    • "Bent," Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question, 2010.
      • "What does it mean that she is bent over?"
    • "Which is more efficient? Planning or living moment to moment?" Heidi Jakoby, by the way, 2010.
    • Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2010.
    • Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours, Luke 13:10-17, David Ewart, 2010.
      • "This lesson invites all of us who seek to follow Jesus today to ponder the ways in which our own rules, customs, and habits of what is right and proper have in fact become "Bad News" for the poor, the blind, and the oppressed - and to break those bonds so that we might ourselves be proclaimers of Good News of release, recovery, and freedom."
    • "There Are No Wimpy Christians in Heaven," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.
      • "They had read the scriptures and recognized Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets; but they were still excluded from the gates of heaven. What did they miss? They missed Jesus in his true form. Not as Messiah; for they did call him, ?Lord?, rather they missed Jesus in his most vulnerable form."
    • "Of People and Power," Expository Essay, Dr. William R. Long. Part 2.
      • "But I can understand how many people would be furious at Jesus. He was going after the power structure at its most vulnerable point--how it was able to secure the support of the people. And he gave the people another choice. And what a choice."
    • "Off the Record," Teresa Berger, The Christian Century, 2004.
      • "In a world that continues to "bend" women?s lives, we must follow Jesus in claiming that the lives of women are sacred, and that women are invited to be healed and flourish in the presence of the Holy One."
    • Laterally Luke, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
    • "Sabbath Freedom," Mary Hinkle, Pilgrim Preaching.
      • "I am using a sabbath controversy story to preach against treating the sabbath as just another day. Jesus heals on the sabbath, yes. However, when Jesus heals the woman, he is not offering a model for seven-day-a-week ministry. In her commentary on Luke, Sharon Ringe says of this text, "The core question is not whether to keep the sabbath, but rather how to keep it" (187)."
    • "The Inevitable Victory of the Kingdom," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.
    • "Jesus Can Heal Us from Anger," Dale Fletcher, Faith and Health Connection.
    • "A Problem of Perspective," a study from the Biblical Studies Foundation.
  • Articles & Background:
    • "Sabbath," "Adherence to the Law," wikipedia.
    • "Ironies, Paradoxes, and Balance," Lynne M. Baab, The Alban Institute.
      • "We expect our congregations to be places of health and healing, an oasis in the midst of the demands and stresses of daily life. Yet some people experience great pain in their congregations, pain that robs them of the comfort their faith could give them."
    • "The Obligation to Heal," Luke 13:10-17, John J. Kilgallen, Biblica, 2001.
      • "In this essay, there is noted the crucial difference between the key words dei= (13,14.16) and e!cestin(14,3) for the interpretations (and differences) between these two Sabbath cures. Also this essay notes the inherent unity of the cure of the bent woman with the call to repentance that precedes it."
    • "Miracles, In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings," Jerome H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, 1995.
      • "...we should attend to the institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom. The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant. 8.45-48)."
    • "Magic, Miracles, and The Gospel," L. Michael White. PBS From Jesus to Christ.
      • "Probably in some ways, and more than any other issue within the development of early Christianity and the gospels tradition, miracles present one of the problematic areas."
    • "Ecumenism and the New Paradigm of Healing," Keith Clements, The Ecumenical Review, 2003.
      • "'Healing' brings into the picture certain depths and dimensions of reconciliation which we are otherwise liable to miss, and these depths and dimensions are beginning to register in our consciousness because of the changes we are experiencing in our contemporary world and the societies we live in."
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  • Reviews:
    • Reviews: Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well: Women's Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels. Westminster John Knox, 2004. Reviews by Orysya Hachko, Kelly Iverson, and Betsy J Bauman-Maring in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
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