Thought for the week: The world is only a bridge

That phrase is found in the New Testament book ‘The Acts of the Apostles’ (20:35), where the author attributed the remark to the Lord Jesus himself.

It has become known as ‘an unwritten saying of Jesus’, meaning one which is not actually found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Another ‘unwritten’ saying of Jesus was discovered in India, close to the famed Taj Mahal palace in Agra. On the wall of a vast gateway near the ruins of Sikri, the Scottish missionary Alexander Duff found this inscription in Arabic: ‘Jesus, on whom be peace, has said, ‘The world is merely a bridge; you are to pass over it, and not to build your dwellings upon it’.