Across

1 Rebuilt nave hosts Jewish doorstep evangelist (8,7)

9 He prepares for recipients of letter (7)

10 Concerning special event in a spiritual time (7)

11 A word of comparison, as introduction to your state of everlasting life? (8)

12 He took the Parthenon Sculptures and the Spanish booze (5)

14 Variety of a lusty puce fast-growing tree (10)

17 The man will shortly find the underworld (4)

20 Give information about ancient Arab mound (4)

21 Interviewer seeking one working with former Queen (10)

23 Excess stuff — around the middle, it’s said (5)

24 Demon wandered and raised standards (8)

28 Libyan city excursion with oil misplaced (7)

29 Smiled — pub brought in good wine (7)

30 Hire or employ man prepared for Charlemagne’s realm (4,5,6)

Down

1 He baptised one held to account by noblemen? (4)

2 Monastic garment worn over and over again?  (5)

3 Disturbed a web, evil but ready for inspection (8)

4 Minor prophet gets article after socks (5)

5 Habitually anxious person sardonic about indication of alternative courage (9)

6 Ted, securing wild hit, gave some earnings to the clergy (6) 

7 Always eco-friendly, not dropping leaves (9)

8 South African brown devil (5) 

13 Period of abstinence is found at the core of plenty (4)

15 Heavenly El Ali sect reformed… (9)

16 …plus, I am in converted Christian movement (9)

18 Pound or penny for the feudal superior? (4)

19 One with sign of hesitation under ceiling’s internal brickwork, initially, or an altar canopy (8)   

22 Manufactured louvre in plush fabric (6) 

23 Jokes before church indicating nasty woman (5)

25 Idolatrous silver kept in skillet (5)   

26 Boredom observed in drunken nuisance (5) 

27 Primitive instincts leading the French to be lazy (4)

Last week’s solution

The quotation around the perimeter is ‘HE MADE THE LAME TO RUN, HE GAVE THE BLIND THEIR SIGHT’ from ‘My Song IsLove Unknown’ by SAMUEL CROSSMAN, set to music by John Ireland (suggested by 21A ERIN)