Today’s lesson from Matthew’s Gospel could righty be titled, “Jesus is on the move.” For over the course of a few verses, we see Jesus going from person to person, encounter to encounter, bringing healing and wholeness and reconciliation everywhere he goes.

In this obscure story from the book of Numbers, a tattletale comes running up to Moses, complaining that two were doing something they weren't supposed to: they were prophesying, without permission. Moses’ response: Would that all God’s people were prophets! Moses's wish comes true, in a fashion, in our second lesson from the Acts of the Apostles - the day of Pentecost.