Luke 17:11-19

Context

This Sunday’s passage takes place during Jesus’ long final journey to Jerusalem (which takes up over a third of Luke’s Gospel). In the preceding pericope the disciples have asked Jesus to increase their faith—a theme that runs through to the concluding line of this week’s passage (“Your faith has made you well.”). Last week’s passage also introduces the theme of our unworthiness of divine favor, which prepares us for this week’s theme of receiving God’s mercy and grace. 

Preaching Angle

Liminal Spaces

Traveling south from Galilee to Jerusalem, Jesus has to pass through Samaria. Luke’s detail that Jesus is “going through the region between Samaria and…