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Advent Season · First Sunday of Advent · Year C

Jeremiah 33:14-16

The Righteous Branch

Icon of the Virgin of the Tree of Jesse, Cretan School (unknown master)
Icon of the Virgin of the Tree of Jesse, Cretan School (unknown master), 1666Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
A Cretan icon with the family tree growing out of a sleeping Jesse, kings and prophets sitting in its branches, and Mary at the top.I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David: Jeremiah's word is a shoot, and this is the shoot drawn as a tree.Byzantine and Christian Museum, AthensGreece's national collection of Byzantine art, founded in 1914, with icons gathered from across the Orthodox world.Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens

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“In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.” (Jeremiah 33:15)

God promises that despite the coming judgment on Jerusalem, he will keep his covenant with David by raising up a righteous branch who brings justice. The oracle assures the exiled people that God's word of restoration will surely be fulfilled.

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