Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B

October 20, 2024

Thinking the Texts by John Fairless

Isaiah 53 is, perhaps, the most famous section of the longer passage known as the Song of the Suffering Servant. Most often relegated to our Holy Week services, we 21st-century Christians can hardly hear it without envisioning Christ on the cross, “dying for our sins.” Of course, its original context is much different;…