I was chatting with another Ugandan friend about the line in Deuteronomy when God tells his people to “Talk about [my commandments] when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up” (6:7 NIV). I wondered why it says, “when you walk along the road.” Because, my friend explained, much of people’s time was likely spent walking, traveling on foot for every journey. Where she grew up, she’d walk for hours or days at a time. Jesus’ five-day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem seemed not unreasonable to her. (This, of course, is yet another reason why the
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