Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“They set up false witnesses who said, ‘This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us.’ And all who sat in the council looked intently at him, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.”
NL Daily Devotion for Wednesday, May 6, 2020
by Daniel D. Maurer, Clergy Stuff
In all my years in reading the Bible, both as a seminary student and as an ELCA paster serving in North Dakota, and now as a lay person writing worship material for churches here at Clergy Stuff, I’ve never seemed to notice one detail.
Stephen seemed to have the “face of an angel.”
What does that mean? Was he somehow angelic? Or does the remark hearken back to the root meaning of the Greek word angelos, which means “messenger.”
We may never know. One thing for sure is that Stephen still gets his rocks, and that was that.
What’s your view about Stephen’s face being that like an angel?
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