Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the church year. To understand these lessons this morning it helps to know a little about the history of the people of Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean region. The people who would eventually become Israel were the ‘hapiru’ which means ‘the wanderers’, because they did not come from any one place. They were a wandering group of Semitic people made up of different races. What they had in common was the Semitic language, and they spoke mainly two versions of it in ancient times, Hebrew and Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. These people were all loosely related through Abraham.