{"id":125991,"date":"2024-01-10T17:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125991"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:11:23","slug":"tom-wright-with-food-for-thought-about-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125991","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wright with Food for Thought about Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is another way as well in which this story points ahead to the climax of the gospel. Jesus will finally come face to face with the representative of the world\u2019s greatest king\u2014Pilate, Caesar\u2019s subordinate. Pilate will have rather different gifts to give him, though he, too, is warned by a dream not to do anything to him (27.19). His soldiers are the first Gentiles since the Magi to call Jesus \u2018king of the Jews\u2019 (27.29), but the crown they give him is made of thorns, and his throne is a cross. At that moment, instead of a bright star, there will be an unearthly darkness (27.45), out of which we shall hear a single Gentile voice: yes, he really was God\u2019s son (27.54).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the whole story, Matthew is saying. Think about what it meant for Jesus to be the true king of the Jews. And then\u2014come to him, by whatever route you can, and with the best gifts you can find.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2nd ed. edition,2004), p. 12<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Adoration of the Magi, 1612-1614.<\/p>\n<p>Fray Juan Bautista Ma\u00edno &#8211; who became a Dominican while working on this painting.<\/p>\n<p>(Museo Nacional del Prado) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UZhfdRnFi0\">pic.twitter.com\/UZhfdRnFi0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1366067133130629125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is another way as well in which this story points ahead to the climax of the gospel. Jesus will finally come face to face with the representative of the world\u2019s greatest king\u2014Pilate, Caesar\u2019s subordinate. Pilate will have rather different<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125991\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epiphany","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125994,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125991\/revisions\/125994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}