It is the very last instructions that the disciples receive from Jesus. It took all of 30 seconds to deliver. 70 words in today's English. 41 in the Greek. Just before the teaching there's an interesting comment. Luke says that Jesus opened their minds. It's an interesting image isn't it? This opening of the mind. I'm not sure that anything significant in this world can be accomplished without it.

There is the story of the man who refused to go to church. His wife prayed that one …