Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 3 Lent, Year C February 28, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX Luke 13:1-9 Changing the Narrative - Did you hear about those poor Galileans whom Pilate killed? - Oh that was awful. Pilate is a monster isn’t he. - I hear he mixed their blood in with their sacrifices. - What? That’s sacrilege! - How would that even work? - I don’t know. They must have been awful people though. - That’s true, for God to have something like that happen to them. Oh hey Jesus, did you hear about those awful Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices? We don’t know exactly what the conversation was, but Jesus responded by asking them if they thought the Galileans whom Pilate killed were worse sinners than anyone else. By Jesus’ response and by what we know about how people tend to talk about things, we can guess that Jesus was spot on, and the conversatio