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Compare Mark 3:13-19; 6:7-11; Luke 6:12-16; 9:1-5; 10:3; John 1:42
I’m impressed by the fact, noted in Luke 6:12-13, that even Jesus prepared himself for the calling of the Twelve by spending the entire night in prayer atop a mountain. Clearly, he took their calling very seriously — as we also should.
On the matter of the apostles cleaning off their feet against those who didn’t accept them: At a certain point during my mission in Switzerland, an unusual number of members of the Twelve came through the country. But they stayed only briefly. They didn’t meet with us and they didn’t meet with the members. So why were they coming? We never really knew, though I have a slightly informed hunch. But the rumor went around the mission — not seriously, but, in a sense, semi-seriously — that all of the Twelve were eventually going to meet on the shores of either Lake Zurich or Lake Geneva in order to collectively wash their feet off against the Swiss and shut the mission down. So unresponsive were the Swiss to the missionaries . . .
Posted from Monterey, California
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