The Ironic Effect of Jesus

irony - a turn of events that is different from, and often opposite to, what was expected.

Jim Scott Orrick, “Irony,” ed. Chad Brand et al., Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2003), 836.

The Irony of....

a healing nowhere near where people would expect.

a sermon no one wanted to hear.

a testimony that contradicted the narrative.

a location that’s past was a failure.

a common denominator.