THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN DARKNESS HAS SEEN A GREAT LIGHT
I appeal to you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to make up the differences between you, and instead of disagreeing among
yourselves, to be united again in your belief and practice. From what Chloe’s
people have been telling me, my dear brothers, it is clear that there are
serious differences among you. What I mean are all these slogans that you have,
like: ‘I am for Paul’, ‘I am for Apollos’, ‘I am for Cephas’, ‘I am for
Christ.’ Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul that was crucified for you?
Were you baptised in the name of Paul?
For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Good News, and not to preach that in the terms of philosophy in which the crucifixion of Christ cannot be expressed.
Hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus went back to Galilee,
and leaving Nazareth he went and settled in Capernaum, a lakeside town on the
borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. In this way the prophecy of Isaiah was to be
fulfilled: CDR
‘Land of Zebulun! Land of Naphtali! Way of the sea on the far side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations! The people that lived in darkness has seen a great light; on those who dwell in the land and shadow of death a light has dawned.’
As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew; they were making a cast in the lake with their net, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.’ And they left their nets at once and followed him. Going on from there he saw another pair of brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John; they were in their boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. At once, leaving the boat and their father, they followed him.
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