“Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that ...

Find today’s readings here. For Christians, reading the Old Testament in light of the New Testament is sometimes almost like a game: Where is Jesus hiding? How is Jesus prefigured this time, in a ...

And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” — Numbers 21:8 The other day I was talking with someone who drew a ...

During their wilderness wanderings, the people of Israel often grumbled. They grumbled against Moses and Aaron. Really, they grumbled against the Lord since Moses and Aaron were His spokesmen. An ...

In Exodus, we are told that eighty-year-old Moses and his brother, Aaron, are standing before the most powerful man on earth—Pharaoh of Egypt. To the Egyptians, this man is more than a representative ...

In our Gospel today, Jesus cryptically says, “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up” (John 3:14). Strange. Turning to the Old Testament story to ...

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLOR.6519; Public Notes: In 1944, a bombing raid, followed by a fire, destroyed most of the fresco cycle at Camposanto. The remnants remain in storage. This ...