Second Sunday after Pentecost
Luke 7:1-10
He deserves it... There are all kinds of stories of dumb criminals; crooks who perhaps didn't plan their capers too well or didn't have some sort of a backup plan in place for that something that went wrong. You have heard of the type. There is the robber who breaks into a house by sliding down the chimney, only to get stuck in the chimney. There is a bank robber who actually leaves a bank with less money than he walks in with. What about the car thief who ends up in an accident in the car he has stolen and dies. In each case, there is a sense of irony or poetic justice; the crook gets his just desserts.