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Christmas: Jesus Pitches His Tent Among Us

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Figures 059 The Erection of the Tabernacle and the Sacred Vessels (left plate) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “ And the Word became flesh, and  dwelt  among us… ” – John  1:14  - If we’re reading through this verse in our daily Bible reading, we’re likely to zip right by it with little fanfare.  We read, simply, that Jesus “dwelt” among us. And when we think of the idea of “dwelling” we just think of “hanging out.”  But there’s much more going on in what John is saying than it sounds to us English-speakers. He uses a peculiar word here. There are more common Greek words for “to dwell,” but he chooses  skēnoō .  Now, the word  skēnē  in Greek means “tent,” and  skēnoō  is the verb form. So we could render it, “to pitch a tent.” John tells us that this Word became flesh and  pitched his tent  among us. That’s a weird way to talk, isn’t it? Especially since we don’t have any Scripture that tells us that Jesus actually pitched any literal tent during his time on