O Lord and Ruler of the house of Israel, Who appearedst unto Moses in a flame of fire in the bush, and gavest unto him the Law in Sinai: Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm.

How is Jesus’ kingship, or our understanding and experience of it, shaped by Jesus’ encounter with Pilate one Sunday and readings about impending doom the very next? The Daily Office readings give us one sense of how to negotiate this space by backing up the story to Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem.