Raised Up

The readings for today contain some of my favorite texts from the Bible.  We have Numbers, John, and Ephesians, and these three texts provide a good example of how we go about interpreting the Bible (Numbers 21:4-9, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:14-21).

What we see in these texts is Jesus in the Gospel of John interpreting the event in Numbers and then Paul in his letter to the Ephesians interpreting Jesus in the Gospels.

This follows our standard model for interpreting the Bible.  The New Testame...