What Did You Write on the Ground, Jesus?--Dec. 30, 2014

Jesus, what did you write on the ground with your finger?

What you had seen, and were seeing and would see?

That you were a refuge to the poor, a refuge

to the needy in their distress?

That for this God set

a crown on

you?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 146; 89:1-18; 89:19-52

Isa. 25:1-9

Rev. 1:19-20

John 7:53-8:11

Selected Verses

Ps. 89:19

Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one, and said:
          “I have set the crown on one who is mighty,
          I have exalted one chosen from the people. 

Isa. 25:4a-c

For you have been a refuge to the poor,
          a refuge to the needy in their distress,
          a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. 

Rev. 1:19

Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this.

John 8:7-8

When [the scribes and Pharisees] kept on questioning [Jesus], he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her [the woman caught in adultery].”  And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground.