Mark Whittall

Holy Week begins with drama. With the deliberate acting out of ancient prophecies. The time and place, the symbols and the route are all carefully chosen so that the scriptures may be fulfilled. Jesus chooses to enter Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, fulfilling the words of the prophet Zechariah: “On that day the Lord’s feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east. Then the Lord my God will come.” This is the day of the Lord, the day t

For God so loved the world … It is one of the best known and most loved verses in the bible, for good reason. John 3.16. For God so loved the world. Usually when we hear that word “so”, we think of it as meaning “so much”. That God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son. And there is certainly truth in that reading. But the word that is translated as “so” actually doesn’t mean that at all. The Greek word is “houtOs”, which means “in this way”. God loved the world i