The Harvest Isn’t Always Ripe, and Laborers are Unqualified | Little Lessons With David Servant

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The Harvest Isn’t Always Ripe, and Laborers are Unqualified | Little Lessons With David Servant

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The Harvest Isn’t Always Ripe, and Sometimes the Laborers are Unqualified

Many readers of Luke 9 overlook the fact that it marks a new and final phase of Jesus’ ministry. Although Jesus had spent most of the previous two or three years in Galilee, Luke 9:51 marks the beginning of His focus on Judea, which would culminate 3 to 6 months later with his crucifixion there. To journey from Galilee to Judea, Jesus and His disciples traveled through Samaria where they suffering some minor persecution. It was then that John, whom we find earlier in today’s reading trying to hinder someone from outside their group from casting out demons, now wanting to call down fire from heaven upon the Samaritans (as did his brother James also). So the harvest isn’t always ripe, and sometimes the laborers are unqualified. (Eventually, however, Samaria ripened.) Today we also learn about who the Samaritans were and what they believed."

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