Today’s appointed gospel lesson begins abruptly with these words, “The Jews took up stones again to stone [Jesus].[1] There’s a context for these words that we haven’t heard at the daily Eucharist this week. I’ll get to that and to today’s lesson, but first I want to remind you and me that the stories of Jesus’ visits to Jerusalem in John and are very different than in Mark, Matthew, and Luke. One might say, it is John’s Jesus who lives out the words to Mary and Joseph of Luke’s twelve-year-old Jesus, “Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”[2]