Numbers

17.1  The Budding of Aaron’s Staff

17.8    This is a nature miracle like those of Jesus, and fitting the description of C.S. Lewis: that the nature miracles are God’s usual natural process and produce, but focussed and concentrated into a moment.

17.12  What a panic!  They could have realised this before.

18.1  Duties of Priests and Levites

18.8  Offerings for Priests and Levites

Psalms

Psalm 55

55.1    So many Psalms start from a point of need – what Alcoholics Anonymous call the G.O.D.: the Gift Of Desperation.

55.13  Judas!

55.17  What, only three times a day?  This is a low-commitment monastic rule!

Isaiah

7.1    The Sign of Immanuel

7.1       Even a prophet is concerned to get the history correct.

7.14    The immediate fulfilment of this is 8.3.

7.18    Compare 5.26.

James

1.2    Trial and Temptations

1.19  Listening and Doing

1.24    Presumably he needed to give his appearance some attention.

1.26    Funny how some consider that thoughts and words don’t count: that only actions are sinful.  Despite his focus on deeds, James is stern about the tongue also.