This coming Sunday is the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time in Lectionary Cycle C. In the previous post we noted that while Cycle C’s primary gospel is Luke, this reading is from the Gospel of John. Many scholars have noted that repeats the theme of Creation as he begins the narrative of the Gospel. Where the synoptic gospels focus on the events at the beginning of Jesus’ public life, John seems to assume that the reader is familiar with those accounts and calls our attention to the ways in which people respond in faith to him – yet, at the same time, unlike the other gospel writers, places the beginning events on a timeline.