I’ve heard it suggested that the writer of Luke and Acts was antisemitic. After all, it’s written in Sunday’s Lectionary, “But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.” (Acts 3:14-15). From this evidence, anyway, it doesn’t seem to me that Peter’s speech as reported by this writer was antisemitic. Read around those verses, and it seems that Peter was doing what all those Old Testament prophets used to do, and criticising people’s actions and calling them to repentance.
Another beautiful morning today, with the frost sparkling in the rising sun…. that familiar April combination of cold air and heat from the sky.