Tanakh: Proverbs 1:20-33
Wisdom cries aloud in the streets,
raises her voice in the squares.
At the head of the busy streets she calls;
at the entrance of the gates, in the city, she speaks out:
“How long will you simple ones love simplicity,
you scoffers be eager to scoff, you willfully ignorant hate knowledge?
You are indifferent to my rebuke;
I will now speak my mind to you, and let you know my thoughts.
Since you refused me when I called,
and paid no heed when I extended my hand,
you spurned all my advice,
and would not hear my rebuke,
I will laugh at your calamity,
and mock when terror comes upon you,
When terror comes like a disaster, and calamity arrives like a whirlwind,
When trouble and distress come upon you.
Then they shall call me but I will not answer;
they shall seek me but not find me.
Because they hated knowledge,
and did not choose fear of the Becoming One;
They refused my advice,
and disdained all my rebukes,
They shall eat the fruit of their ways,
and have their fill of their own counsels.
The tranquillity of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of the willfully ignorant will destroy them.
But she who listens to me will dwell in safety,
untroubled by the terror of misfortune.”
Queeries for the text:
Who is Wisdom?
What advice and rebukes are being rejected and ignored?
What is the terror of misfortune?
Does God punish us?
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Rev. Emily E. Ewing queeries the Gospel reading.
27Jesus went on with his chosen family to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his chosen family, “Who do people say that I am?”
28And they answered Jesus, “John the Baptizer; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
29Jesus asked them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”
30And Jesus sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. 31Then Jesus began to teach them that the Human One must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the religious authorities, and the legal authorities, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He said all this quite openly. And Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him.
33But turning and looking at his chosen family, Jesus rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
34Jesus called the crowd with his chosen family, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Human One will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Caregiver with the holy angels.”
Queeries for the text:
What did we skip?
Why John the Baptizer, Elijah, or one of the prophets?
What is a messiah?
Who "must" undergo great suffering?
What does it mean to deny yourself and take up your cross? What doesn't it mean?
Who gains the world to lose life?
What does it mean to be ashamed? What doesn't it mean?
What are your queeries?
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