Lectionary for Ya'akov

The playlist of songs and hymns for this week is available on YouTube . Jesus Traveling - Jésus en voyage by James Tissot, 1886–1896, Brooklyn Museum . The context of this passage is that Jesus and the disciples had traveled to Capernaum and Mark 9:38 gives the report that was received upon arrival. Millstone by Robert Cree Crawford, before 1925, Gracefield Arts Centre . A large millstone is mentioned in Mark 9:42. You can find another painting of a millstone in use - Gunpowder Incorporating Mill by Richard W. Penfold at  Royal Gunpowder Mills . The Visual Commentary on Scripture has the page The Road to Oblivion . Mark 9:38-48 CSB John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.” “Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. And whoever gives you a cup of wate...

The playlist of songs and hymns for this week is available on YouTube . The First Shall Be Last - Le premier sera le dernier by James Tissot, 1886–1896, Brooklyn Museum . This is inspired by Mark 9:35. Jesus and the Little Child - Jésus et le petit enfant by James Tissot, 1886–1896, Brooklyn Museum . This is inspired by Mark 9:36-37. Christ Teacheth Humility by Robert Scott Lauder, 1847, National Gallery of Scotland Christ Showing the Little Children as the Emblem of Heaven by Benjamin West, circa 1810–1820, Dallas Museum of Art Mark 9:30-37 CSB Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but he did not want anyone to know it. For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after he is killed, he will rise three days later.” But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him. They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “...