In the Lectionary

January 15, Second Sunday after Epiphany

John 1:29–42

“You will see greater things than these.”

“You will see a public ministry that grows at incredible speed until thousands of people are fed on a hillside because they are so desperate for a word of hope from me. But you will see them depart as well, once I do not say all that they want to hear—or say more than they want to hear—about what I came to do.”

“You will see healing that might strike you as downright irresponsible in its profligacy—going into places of pain and loneliness that are hard to look upon, places we have found it so easy not to see, or to theologize our lack of vision away.”