Tag: Luke
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Times of Difficulty – 2
Signs of the Times [Introduction to this this series – part 1, in case you missed it.] Matthew 16: And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. Pharisees, teachers, men of authority, including Sadducees who wielded great power over corporate worship want to…
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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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For you will always have the poor – 3
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ – Deuteronomy 15:11 Certainly Jesus could have been referring to this command of Moses. Thus far we have examined two of the…
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