Sun Gen 44:18-45:28; Ps 94:17-98:6; Lk 15:8-19;
Mon Lev 19:35-20:27; Pr 20:9-24; Lk 15:20-32
Tues Dt 8:1-9:21; Job 33:19-34:15; Mt 21:1-17; Acts 17:22-34
Wed Ruth 3:6-1 Sam 1:11; Is 40:27-41:20; Mt 21:18-32; 1 Cor 5:9-6:11
Thur 1 K 19:1-20:25; Jer 37:3-38:13; Jn 11:45-53; Eph 6:10-Php 1:2
Fri ICh 6:49-56; Ezek 39:17-40:19; Jn 11:54-57; Heb 9:6-14
Sat IICh 33:1-20; Hab 1:5-2:11; Mk 10:46-11:14; Rev7:9-8:7
if started the gospels with day 1, now 18th week before Resurrection chapters:
Sun Lk 15:8-19
Mon Lk 15:20-32 (through day 230/365)
Tues Mt 21:1-17
Wed Mt 21:18-32 (through day 241/365)
Thu Jn 11:45-53
Fri Jn 11:54-57 (through day 224/365)
Sat Mk 10:46-11:14 (through day 236/365)
if going to land on the Resurrection on Easter Sunday (33 weeks before Easter)
Sun Lk 8:19-25
Mon Lk 8:26-36 (through day 125/365)
Tues Mt 12:33-42
Wed Mt 12:43-13:2 (through day 136/365)
Thu Jn 6:52-65
Fri Jn 6:66-71 (through day 119/365)
Sat Mk 6:30-46 (through day 131/365)
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1 Kings 19:1-20:25.
1 Kings 19:19-21 throws a great light upon Lk 9:61-62, 'Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.” But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”.'
Namely, there is an emphasis there in Luke 9 to the urgency of the Lord's tasks for His followers, and it gets even more impetus by this allusion to the standard obligations of goodbye to family, expressed in the well-known history of Elijah and Elisha, specifically the part here in 1 Kg 19:19-21.
When Elijah, open Elisha's request to say goodbye to his family, says "go back again, for what have I done to you," that reasoning expands to this: Elijah has not done anything to Elisha that would upstage such an obligation. Therefore, when Jesus says about the request of Him to be allowed to say good-bye to those at home, comparing it to the looking back after putting the hand to the plow, this obligation of following Christ is by its nature, a greater obligation than Elijah himself laid upon Elisha after putting his mantle upon Elisha (1 Kings 19:19).
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