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4101. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 10:1-42

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... of all, the message goes to God’s ancient people. Later, the disciples will be commissioned to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19). In sending the Twelve to the lost sheep of the people of Israel Jesus was, according to some views, directing his disciples to the ‘am hā’āreṣ (“the people of the land,” those who did not follow all the ceremonial prescriptions of Judaism). It is more likely that the reference was to all of Israel. Like sheep that have wandered from the fold ...

4102. The Parable of the Sower

Matthew 13:1-23

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... itself but anyone who hears the message. The major difficulty, however, in the eyes of many contemporary writers, is that the interpretation of the parable is said to belong not to Jesus but to the allegorizing of the early church. One view is that it represents the efforts of a Christian evangelist to account for frequent failures in winning a steadfast following. Natural hazards of agricultural life become human dispositions that impede reception of the kingdom message. It is argued that people who ...

4103. John the Baptist Beheaded

Matthew 14:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... before all the guests, and Herod was so delighted that he promised her anything she might want. Although it would have been unusual for a royal princess to perform an “immodest and provocative” dance (Filson, p. 169) in the presence of men, in view of Herodias’ hatred of John and the drunkenness of the occasion, it is not difficult to believe that that is exactly what happened. The name of Herodias’ daughter (Salome) is not supplied by the Gospel account but by Josephus. Salome was the daughter ...

4104. The Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-13

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Robert H. Mounce

... it to be a reliable account of a supernatural transformation, the purpose of which is entirely appropriate to the ministry of Jesus the Messiah. That Matthew locates the event after six days (following Caesarea Philippi) underscores the vivid impression that it left. Some view the time reference in a less historical manner and see the influence of Exodus 24:16, where after six days God called Moses into the cloud of glory that covered Mount Sinai. In biblical times divine revelation often took place on a ...

4105. The Triumphal Entry

Matthew 21:1-11

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... entire scene belongs either to the Feast of Tabernacles, because of the heightened messianic expectation, or to Hanukkah (celebrating the rededication of the temple by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 B.C.), which would lead naturally to the cleansing of the temple. 21:9 Hosanna: Nigel Turner mentions with favor the view that behind Hosanna may lie an Aramaic word for power. In that case, the Matthew passage would read, “Praise to the Son of David!” (HDB rev., p. 397).

4106. The Resurrection

Matthew 28:1-10

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... Notes 28:1 After: opse with the genitive of separation may mean “late from” in the sense of “some time later.” Epiphōskō may mean “to draw near” (as in Luke 23:54), but here it has the normal meaning “to dawn/shine forth.” See Gundry (p. 585) for the view that the women come on Saturday evening. Robertson allows for two visits and, to avoid any discrepancy, asks, “Why allow only one visit for the anxious women?” (WPNT, vol. 1, p. 240).

4107. Face-to-Face with the Kingdom

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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Tom Garrison

... in the world and then pattern our lives after those people. The problem with this is that we can always find the flaws in any person. The solution to the kingdom approach is what Jesus did in Matthew 13. He told parables that would allow a person to view the kingdom in a way that would give us a sense of what the kingdom does and how it spreads. Not only that he emphasized how important this line of kingdom thinking is, and therefore told these stories about finding great treasure or a pearl of great price ...

4108. Giving and Receiving

Matthew 14:22-33

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Tom Garrison

... in all the Bible. This miracle of stilling the waters and saving Peter lets us sit with the disciples and walk with Peter in a dangerous and scary world. Jesus was moved again and again to teach his disciples of faith and dependence, and that gives us all a view of the mission of our Lord then and today. He knew what it was to suffer, and he also knew the gift of receiving the blessing of life and living it. The other part of the scripture lesson reflects the time that he made everything calm and not just ...

4109. Gratitude and Coping

Matthew 14:13-21

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Tom Garrison

... of us in terms of knowing "how to put it all together." Again and again in the pages of the New Testament he can be seen coping directly and courageously with all kinds of difficulties, and in the passage from Matthew there is one of those episodes for us to view how he dealt with situations in his life and also learn what we can from it. This is one of the best-known events of his entire ministry — the time he fed the 5,000 in the wilderness. This episode must have made a deep impression on his disciples ...

4110. Jesus Morality

Matthew 10:40-42

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Tom Garrison

... "new morality" or situational ethics, and I would like for us to look at this debate in the hope that we can sharpen our own insight into how best to handle the challenges of our lives as we make concrete decisions every day. As I view the current discussion in the field of Christian ethics, there seem to be two distinct approaches to the question. For example, there are an impressive number of moralists who say that the most important thing to be considered in decision-making is the principle or rule ...

4111. A Love Triangle

Matthew 22:34-46

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David G. Rogne

... did not belong to the same tribe, the able-bodied patient would answer with wide-eyed innocence, "This man is not a brother of mine." Neither rewards nor threats could induce him to perform a service for a stranger. Jesus calls us to a far more inclusive view of who is our neighbor. Charles Wolfe tells of being called out of a warm bed on a bitterly cold and icy night in Albany, New York. His brother was stranded downtown because his car wouldn't start. Then his brother commented about how nice it was ...

4112. Who Cares?

Matthew 25:31-46

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David G. Rogne

... himself. They are surprised and say they were not aware of it. The king says that when they were serving others, they were serving him. Often we are not aware that an act of caring or compassion has any effect beyond our immediate view. Stephen Lewis, formerly Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, told of visiting Pashawar, the city in Pakistan closest to the Afghanistan border. There, he and a Canadian External Affairs member — whom he identified only as Barbara — met an Afghan poet. For writing ...

4113. The Parable of the Sower

Mark 4:1-20

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... is perhaps the first group, the ones from whom Satan takes the message, that requires some comment. These are quite probably those who never even begin to receive the message properly, those who turn against it or ignore it. The reference to Satan reflects the view that this message about the kingdom of God is an attack upon Satan and the power of evil, and that rejection of the message is a result of Satan-inspired opposition. Jesus has already described his ministry as an attack upon Satan’s domain (3 ...

4114. A Dead Girl and A Sick Woman

Mark 5:21-43

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Larry W. Hurtado

... Jesus has returned from the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, the gentile area where the demoniac was cured. These two incidents are followed by the rejection of Jesus in Nazareth, his home town, and they seem to prepare the reader to view that rejection as all the more unwarranted. But these miracles, together with the rejection, also seem to prefigure symbolically the final rejection of Jesus, culminating in the trial and crucifixion. Is it insignificant that the woman had a twelve-year ailment, and ...

4115. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Mark 6:7-13

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... used as a medicine in ancient Palestine, taken internally and applied to wounds and sores (e.g., Luke 10:34). It is also mentioned as applied to the sick in connection with prayer in the early church (James 5:14), probably as a symbolic act, and this is probably in view here. (See “Oil,” IDB, vol. 3, pp. 592–93.)

4116. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

Mark 6:30-44

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... the feeding not only show that the feeding was a miraculous multiplication of provisions for the crowd, but the number may also be symbolic. As indicated before, twelve is a number frequently associated with Israel in Jewish tradition and in the OT. Now in view of the accumulated evidence that this feeding account presents Jesus as fulfilling the role of Moses and David and that it uses OT phrasing to present the crowd as Israel in need of divine leadership (6:34, sheep without a shepherd), it seems likely ...

4117. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-23

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Larry W. Hurtado

... question of “clean/unclean,” which lies at the base of the hand-washing practice, is taken up by Jesus. But Jesus’ words in 7:6–13 really are relevant to the Pharisees’ criticism of the disciples (7:1–5), because he attacks the basis of their view. Indeed, 7:1–13 (and 7:14–23) is a good example of the nature of the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees, a conflict we have already discussed in connection with 2:13–28 (see comments on these verses). Before we discuss this passage further ...

4118. The Triumphal Entry

Mark 11:1-11

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... from Jericho. The reference to these branches of greenery is taken by some as an indication that the actual entry into Jerusalem happened during the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall of the year, when the pilgrim ceremonies involved the waving of such branches. In this view, Jesus came to Jerusalem in the fall and ministered in and near the city until his arrest and execution in the spring during Passover (see, e.g., Lane, pp. 390–91). 11:9 Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!: The ...

4119. The Greatest Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... of the law. The scribe in the story before us would certainly not have intended to imply by his question that he felt that some commandments could be ignored if other, more important ones were kept. Rather, he was probably asking Jesus for his view of what he understood to be the fundamental purpose and character of the OT law. The NIV translation in verse 28, of all … the most important, should be rendered more correctly as, “of all … the chief commandment,” meaning the commandment on which the ...

4120. Jesus Anointed at Bethany

Mark 14:1-11

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... :35–45), the woman concerns herself solely with giving honor to Jesus. It is this undivided devotion to Jesus that the readers are to emulate. 14:10–11 This account of Judas’ agreement with the authorities to betray Jesus is remarkably restrained, in view of the parallels that mention such features as the betrayal price (Matt. 26:15), Satanic influence (Luke 22:3; John 13:2, 27), and something of the information that Judas could supply (Luke 22:6) about Jesus’ movements. Mark’s sole purpose seems ...

4121. Introduction

Luke 1:1-4

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... Luke added chaps. 1–2 after having earlier written chaps. 3–24. This could very well have been the case. As it now stands the preface introduces the entire two-volume work (which Luke himself calls a “narrative” [diēgēsis]), although it chiefly has in view the first volume, the Gospel. The briefer preface of Acts 1:1–2 (“In my former book [i.e., the Gospel], Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach …”) harks back to the Gospel preface and thus provides an important ...

4122. The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold

Luke 1:5-25

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 19–20, John and Jesus must have been born shortly before Herod’s death. Zechariah is the name of other OT priests (1 Chron. 15:24; 2 Chron. 35:8; Neh. 11:12). The name, which means “the Lord has remembered,” may be noteworthy in view of John’s unusual conception and calling. According to later Christian legend, Zechariah was a high priest (see Protevangelium of James 8:1–3); but this, of course, is incorrect. priestly division of Abijah: There were 24 orders or divisions of priests (see 1 Chron ...

4123. The Birth of John the Baptist

Luke 1:57-66

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... ancient Jewish custom the child was circumcised upon a chair called the ‘throne of Elijah’ with the hope that he might be the long-awaited prophet.” If this custom were known in the days of Zechariah, then the background against which we must view John’s circumcision takes on an additional element of drama. 1:65–66 The numerous witnesses of the extraordinary happenings surrounding the circumcision and naming of John may help explain, at least in Luke’s mind, why the Baptist’s ministry was met ...

4124. The Temptation of Jesus

Luke 4:1-13

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... maintained (Leaney, p. 115), a vision or a parabolic illustration of the devil-inspired opposition to Jesus’ ministry? It is not easy to decide, for problems attend all of these interpretations. But the one that seems the most plausible is the view that Jesus’ temptations were visionary. The context for the temptation would suggest this interpretation. Jesus has spent a lengthy time in prayer, solitude, and fasting. Prayer and fasting often preceded heavenly visions (see Dan. 9:3, 20–21; Acts 10:30 ...

4125. The Man with Leprosy

Luke 5:12-16

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... ; 8:46; 13:13; 18:15; 22:51; Acts 5:15. Ellis (p. 103) suggests that touching for purposes of healing “seems to have its origin in the Elijah/Elisha healings”; however, see note on 4:40 above. That Jesus touched the leper is remarkable in view of popular beliefs and practices. By doing so Jesus demonstrates power and compassion. 5:14 Don’t tell anyone: This phrase, taken from Mark 1:44, in the Marcan context has to do with a special theme in Mark usually referred to as the “Messianic Secret.” This ...

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