Year A, Epiphany 3
“The Invitation”
Main point: The invitation from Jesus is to follow him.
Introduction
Our gospel begins with a geographical marker which is the setting of the beginning of Jesus’ earthly ministry. To our modern ears the places we hear about in the New Testament might all run together to make it sound like the entire story happened in one place with all Jewish people. But that wasn’t the case.
The locations of Jesus’ ministry happen in three basic provinces along the far eastern border of the Mediterranean Sea. The northernmost province was Galilee; the southernmost province was Judea; and in…
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