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Witnesses to Jesus Risen! – Peter
“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. John 21:12 CSB 3 Questions & more.. As you read previously in Witnesses to Jesus Risen! – Simon Peter this third encounter of the Disciples with the risen Jesus includes John…
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A Day of the silence of the Passover Lamb
The Son of Man is Slain From the day the Son of Man is delivered into the world and laid in a manger the shadow of the Cross foretold Christ’s Sacrifice. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full…
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Jesus – Disaster & Sin – Tower of Siloam
“I tell you, no! But … What day’s NEWS doesn’t HEADLINE: DISASTER? The world asks why God would allow this. Were those killed worse sinners than others, so God punished them by death? This is how we think. Even if we acknowledge sin (in others) we want to blame God for punishment, especially in providential…
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For you will always have the poor – 4
ἀλάβαστρον – alabastron The alabaster receptacle of the anointing oil To understand why Jesus would say, “the poor are with you always,” we must understand anointing as commonly understood in the culture of the day. People traveled to and from homes with no running water mostly by foot and anointing is often associated with washing or cleansing. Jesus instructs…
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Death’s Melancholy: Resurrection’s Rapture
“Then beginning with the scriptures of Moses and from all the prophets he uncovered the things concerning himself.” – the good news of Luke 24:27 Scripture taught along a road from Jerusalem One of the the most remarkable verses in scripture comes to us from witnesses on a road to Emmaus from Jerusalem. Though less…
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Interrupting Jesus 5 – persistent faith
And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” 17 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. – Luke…
