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Jeannine K. Brown
... (e.g., Lev. 2:1). The Hebrew word refers to something no longer used for ordinary purposes but consecrated to God (BDAG 559; cf. Mark 7:11, where the Greek equivalent korban is defined by doron). In the first-century setting, doron refers to a vow made to dedicate ... at 15:17–20, this aphorism addresses the Pharisees’ complaint about his disciples and not food laws themselves (cf. Mark 7:19). Matthew’s Jesus is addressing the problem of adding external regulations in order to protect oneself against ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... , doing actions on behalf of others. It is not about self-loathing or eliminating the self from view; instead, it follows Jesus in mission and ministry wherever he leads. Illustrating the Text Jesus is truly Israel’s Messiah, but his way of being the Messiah is marked by cruciformity; he will die and be raised to inaugurate God’s reign in this world. Nature: Hold up a single corn seed. Talk about the value of the seed. From this one seed can come a plant that produces not only nourishment but also many ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... fears. 17:9  Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead. In all three synoptic Gospels the transfiguration account prefigures Jesus’ resurrection by providing a glimpse of his coming glory (Matt. 17:2; 28:18; cf. Mark 9:2–8; Luke 9:28–36). The warning in 17:9 ties the two together explicitly. 17:10  Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first? Presumably, the disciples are responding to Jewish rumination on Malachi 4:5–6 ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... ’s forgiveness deeply into one’s heart and life. In the end, the parable is meant to encourage a powerful and ongoing pattern of forgiveness among the family of God. Teaching the Text 1. Jesus teaches that the community of his followers should be marked by extravagant and unlimited forgiveness. Peter seems to think that his offer to forgive seven times is quite magnanimous, but Jesus raises the bar exponentially. By drawing on an allusion to the story of Cain and Lamech (Gen. 4:17–24), Jesus calls his ...
2655. Jesus, Messiah and Lord, Is True Interpreter of the Torah
Matthew 22:15-22, Matthew 22:23-33, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46
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Jeannine K. Brown
... their tests and trick questions. In contemporary preaching there is at times a tendency to set Jesus at odds with the law or Torah—Jesus as a maverick, breaking all the rules. But this is not Matthew’s portrait of Jesus (nor that of Mark, Luke, or John, for that matter). Quite the contrary, for Matthew, Jesus is the embodiment of Wisdom. So how might this inform our preaching and teaching? In a cultural context that values knowledge we can preach Jesus as God’s wisdom. Wisdom moves beyond knowledge ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... Jerusalem and plundered and razed the temple. 24:3  when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? Two distinct questions are asked by the disciples. While Mark focuses Jesus’ eschatological discourse on the fall of the temple (cf. Mark 13:4), Matthew ties the second question of Jesus’ parousia (his “coming”) with the “end of the age” by using “the sign” (singular) to unite the two parts of this second question. Additionally, Matthew is the only ...
2657. Jesus Is God’s Faithful Son in Gethsemane and at His Arrest and Trial
Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:36-46, Matthew 26:47-56, Matthew 26:57-68, Matthew 26:69-75
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Jeannine K. Brown
... . In spite of temptation to go another (easier) path, Jesus remains God’s faithful son in contrast to Israel’s historical failings as God’s son (Hosea 11:1; Matt. 2:15). Each of the Gospels tells this story of Jesus’ faithfulness to God’s plan (e.g., Mark 14:36; Luke 9:51; John 12:27–28). And particularly if Paul speaks of God’s righteousness being displayed through Jesus’ faithfulness in Romans 3:22 (also Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9), then Paul calls people to trust in the faithful work of Christ ...
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Jeannine K. Brown
... made against him. For a possible echo of Isaiah 53:7, see comments on 26:63. 27:15  governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner. While there is no external corroboration for this custom attributed to Pilate, we also hear about it in Mark 15:6 and John 18:39, which add the detail that Pilate was deferring to local custom in offering to release a prisoner at Passover. Craig Keener provides evidence of Roman officials deferring to local customs in regard to leniency.1 27:17  Jesus Barabbas ...
2659. More Parables of the Kingdom
Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:21-25
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Grant R. Osborne
... 4:34  He did not say anything to them without using a parable. As in 4:11b–12, Jesus uses parables to conceal truth from those unreceptive to the kingdom. There is hyperbole in this because Jesus is seen in Mark teaching the crowds without parables (e.g., 1:15; 8:34–9:1); Mark emphasizes the deliberate “riddle-like nature of much of Jesus’s teaching.”2 The disciples still struggle to understand their meaning, but they are receptive, so Jesus explains their meaning (as in 4:13–20). They are the ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... us completely whole. In 1 Peter 1:6–7 our troubles are the crucible of life that boils off our sinful tendencies and makes us become “pure gold.” We are “the salt of the earth” (Matt. 5:13) and as such need the purifying fire of Christ (Mark 9:49) that “refines” the people of God (Mal. 3:20) so we can serve him. Illustrating the Text Casting off human impurities Science: In places with long and snowy winters, roads are often salted to melt ice. One result is that cars have a tendency to rust ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... . 16); Saul ended his reign in death and failure (1 Sam. 31); the kings of Israel and Judah who led their people into apostasy died miserable deaths. Jesus says that a leader who causes God’s “little ones” to “fall away” will suffer severe judgment (Mark 9:42). The Jewish leaders of Jesus’s day had become “false shepherds” (cf. Ezek. 34) whom God had rejected (on the curses on the nation, see the sidebar “God’s Wrath against an Apostate People” in the unit on 13:1–13). The warning ...
2662. Government and Marriage
Mark 12:18-27, Mark 12:13-17
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Grant R. Osborne
... is part of our surrender to the God who superintends every earthly aspect. God must be master over all our secular resources, and in light of eternity every possession and everything in this world has no value except as kingdom resources. We must emulate Peter in Mark 10:28: “We have left everything to follow you.” This means that we hold all our possessions to be part of our stewardship to God and make him Lord over everything that we have and are. 3. The resurrection body is a new perfection. Jesus ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... his coming death as a new exodus, a redemption event (vv. 22–26); B? he prophecies the desertion of the rest of the disciples (vv. 27–31). Interpretive Insights 14:22  Jesus took bread. This is the fifth stage of the meal (see on 14:18). Mark details the actions of the family father with the blessing, breaking, and distribution of the loaves, like the feeding miracle in 6:41, where Jesus blessed, broke, and distributed the bread to the people. Paul echoes this in 1 Corinthians 11:23–24, as does John ...
2664. The Birth of Jesus
Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7
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R.T. France
... it was symbolically important for the child to be born in the place where the Messiah was expected to be born (Matt. 2:4–6; John 7:42). 2:6  her firstborn. This implies that Mary subsequently had other children, Jesus’s “brothers” (8:19; cf. Mark 6:3). It prepares us for the ceremony of the dedication of the firstborn in 2:22–24. 2:7  there was no guest room available for them. The Greek word traditionally translated “inn” (katalyma) normally denotes a guest room in a private house (as in ...
2665. Sabbath in Capernaum
Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37
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R.T. France
... carrying others to Jesus for healing, thus avoiding a breach of current Sabbath restrictions. 4:41  he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak. Jesus’s demand for silence after his miracles is not so prominent a theme in Luke as it is in Mark. Here (as in 4:35) it is addressed to the demons rather than to human observers, and it is explicitly linked to their supernatural recognition of him as the Messiah. Compare the similar command to the disciples when Peter reached the same conclusion (9:20 ...
2666. True and False Discipleship
Luke 6:46-49, Luke 6:43-45, Luke 6:37-42
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R.T. France
... personal profession: one’s true character is made evident in the fruit that one bears. But these verses also bring the challenge nearer to home. There are those who appear to others (and even to themselves?) to be true disciples but who do not come up to the mark. They call Jesus “Lord, Lord” but do not follow his teaching; they listen to his words but do not obey them. A key word of this section is “do,” which occurs five times in 6:43–49 (“bears [fruit]” twice in 6:43 is the same word in ...
2667. “Who Is This?”
Luke 9:10-17, Luke 9:1-9
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R.T. France
... a true messenger of God. 9:8  Elijah had appeared. For the expectation of Elijah’s return, see on 1:17. 9:9  he tried to see him. Antipas’s desire to see Jesus will be fulfilled in 23:8. 9:10  they withdrew by themselves. Mark 6:31–34 makes it clear that this was a deliberate attempt to find respite from the crowds, but that popular insistence thwarted the planned retreat. Bethsaida, which was outside Galilee proper, had recently been developed into a sizable fishing town (the original home of ...
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R.T. France
... Insights Jesus’s debates with religious leaders are usually hostile, but here we see him in essential agreement with a legal expert. This summary of the law, offered by the lawyer and approved by Jesus, could hardly be faulted (see the admiring response of the scribe in Mark 12:32–33). It is not in his basic understanding of the law that Jesus was out on a limb, but in the radical comprehensiveness of the way he applied it. This parable subverts not the ethical demand of the law, but the Jewish sense of ...
2669. Negative Responses to Jesus
Luke 11:33-36, Luke 11:29-32, Luke 11:14-28
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R.T. France
... all these Old Testament roles. Such a claim goes far beyond their request for a “sign.” 11:33–36  See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. This little complex of sayings about light, with parallels in different contexts in Mark 4:21 (= Luke 8:16 [see above]); Matthew 5:15; 6:22–23, is difficult to interpret. In this context it probably reflects on the response of Jesus’s contemporaries to the “light” that his ministry has now openly revealed (the “something greater” of ...
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R.T. France
... that had been prescribed for priests in their cultic duties (Exod. 30:18–21; Lev. 22:4–7). The Pharisee expects Jesus, as a religious teacher, to apply a stricter standard than was required of ordinary people. For a fuller debate on this issue, see Mark 7:1–23 (= Matt. 15:1–20). 11:39  you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup. The detailed Pharisaic rules for purity fill one of the six main sections of the Mishnah (Teharot, “Cleannesses”), though much of this elaboration is later than Jesus ...
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R.T. France
... his response and his following teaching to the disciples Jesus moves away from the kingdom of God to speak instead of “the days of the Son of Man” in a way that clearly goes beyond the present scene to a climactic moment of history. In Mark 13 and Matthew 24–25 all such teaching about the future is gathered together into a single discourse that begins with the destruction of the temple but then apparently goes on to speak of a more ultimate eschatological event, described in Matthew 24 as the parousia ...
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R.T. France
... different levels of success starting from the same endowment (by contrast, in Matthew the amounts entrusted vary, but the rate of success is the same). Is this feature intended, like the different levels of yield from the seed in Mark’s and Matthew’s versions of the parable of the sower (Mark 4:8, 20), to recognize that disciples may vary in their capacity for success? God expects and rewards faithful service, even though not all will be able to reach the same level. 19:17, 19  take charge of ten ...
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C. Marvin Pate
... to concoct a chemical that will do so. He succeeds and, putting the woman to sleep, administers the solution. In the end, the mark is gone, but she has died. He has worshiped at the altar of perfection instead of loving his wife. The Gentiles and the ... 26) in Romans 13:8–10: loving one’s neighbor and loving God supremely (cf. Lev. 19:18; Matt. 5:43–48; 19:19; 22:34–40; Mark 12:28–33; Luke 10:25–28; Gal. 5:14; James 2:8). Third, the new covenant has been instituted by Christ (compare Rom. 2:25–29 ...
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C. Marvin Pate
... 23; CD 3.20; 1QHa 4.15; 2 Baruch; 4 Ezra).3Second, Paul’s term for “suffering” in 5:3, thlipsis, can simply indicate distress brought on by outward circumstances, but more likely it refers to the tribulation of the last days (compare, e.g., Dan. 12:1 LXX; Mark 13:19, 24; Rev. 6–19 with 2 Cor. 1:4, 8; 2:4; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2 Thess. 1:4), as I have argued elsewhere.4These two backgrounds—Adamic and eschatological—are related: the belief emerged in Second Temple Judaism that those who suffered the end ...
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C. Marvin Pate
... spiritually by four women: Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence. The women also ask him pointed questions about where he came from, how he thinks about his past, and so on in order to ascertain where he stands in his Christian life and to mark his progress in preparation for what is to come. Television: The Good Wife. In the first season of this show, the episode “Heart” has some dialogue not typically heard in popular television shows. Peter Florrick, a politically connected man and the husband of ...
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