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Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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4201. The Creator and His Providential Ordering of Creation

Psalm 104:1-35

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... incongruous with God’s taking delight in his works, but it certainly makes clear that creation is at his disposal and not ours. Moreover, the “trembling” of the earth and the “smoking” of the mountains at his presence (note again his personal engagement: he looks and touches) continues the theophanic language of the God of the skies begun in verses 1–4. There, attention was given to his activity in the skies; here, it is given to the earth’s quaking response (cf. 18:7; 68:8; 77:18; 97:4; 144:5 ...

4202. Two Blind Men Receive Sight

Matthew 20:29-34

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... in compassion to the cry of those who need to be served. When rebuked by the crowd, they shouted all the louder … Jesus stopped, and the blind men, in answer to his query, pleaded with him to open their eyes. Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; their sight was immediately restored, and they followed him. Tasker calls attention to an interesting textual variant in the Curetonian MS of the Old Syriac version, which adds et videamus te (“and that we may see thee”) after “that our eyes may ...

4203. Daniel’s Training in Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... from wearing jewelry and forbid their women from wearing makeup or from cutting or braiding their hair (1 Tim. 2:9–10). Other Christians leave it open to the individual conscience to determine what it means to be pure and holy, separate from the world, not touching unclean things (2 Cor. 6:14–7:1). Our Lord taught that defilement does not come from external things, such as what we eat, or from failure to observe ritual washings, as in Judaism, but from the sins of the heart: “But what comes out of ...

4204. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

Daniel 2:1-23

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... above, it is not clear whether the king remembers the dream. However, the test is the same whether he recalls it or not. If they successfully tell him the dream, which they can only learn supernaturally, that will verify that they have been in touch with the gods and can give the correct interpretation. If they cannot recount the dream, their powers are in doubt and their interpretations suspect. 2:10–12 Although it is not important to know whether the king recollects his dream, it is very important ...

4205. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... 11, as in chapter 8, the author also omits Babylonia and Media, so that he can primarily survey the history from the time of Persia down to the persecution of the Jews under the Seleucids. This Final Revelation briefly summarizes the Persian stage and touches on Alexander the Great (two verses—11:2–3); then it goes into much more detail about the Hellenistic era, focusing on the wars between the Seleucids and the Ptolemies (seventeen verses—11:4–20); the climax comes as the chapter devotes the lion ...

4206. Jesus Heals Many

Mark 1:29-34

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Larry W. Hurtado

... action, his merely taking the woman by the hand, another indication of Jesus’ power and authority—this time in the face of illness. Her response is probably intended by Mark as illustrative of the proper response of his readers, who also have been “touched” by Jesus. Elsewhere Mark shows Jesus as commanding service to one’s fellow disciples as the proper response to the Gospel (9:33–35; 10:42–45). In verses 32–34, then, Mark gives one of several “transitional summaries” in the early ...

4207. A Prophet Without Honor

Mark 6:1-6

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Larry W. Hurtado

... not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. The questions come tumbling forth. If Jesus did no miracle in Nazareth, to what miracles does the crowd refer in 6:2? Is not the healing of a few sick people by his touch precisely the sort of thing that seems to be regarded as a miracle elsewhere in Mark (cf. 5:23, 28)? What then does Mark mean by saying that Jesus could do no miracle here? However awkward Mark’s phrasing seems to us, he was probably saying that just as ...

4208. John the Baptist Beheaded

Mark 6:14-29

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Larry W. Hurtado

... as cynically manipulating Herod by his own moral weakness. There is no historical basis for the legendary seven veils of Salome’s dance. This dance is not mentioned by Josephus. 6:25 The head of John the Baptist on a platter: The gruesome request presents the daughter as adding a touch of evil humor to her mother’s suggestion. On a platter makes the head of John a kind of meal course at this wicked banquet.

4209. The Little Children and Jesus

Mark 10:13-16

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Larry W. Hurtado

... this is correct or not, in its present context the saying certainly ties in with the general theme of discipleship in Mark 8–10. The intention of those who brought the children to Jesus was that he would perhaps impart some blessing to them, for Jesus’ touch is described elsewhere in Mark as regarded by people as conveying such blessings as health (e.g., 1:41; 3:10; 5:28, 41; 6:56; 7:32; 8:22). The impatience of the disciples (v. 13) is perhaps more understandable given the apparently ceaseless demands ...

4210. Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight

Mark 10:46-52

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Larry W. Hurtado

... that the man’s cry is proper. He represents a positive response to Jesus’ ministry. Moreover, Mark says that the man began to follow Jesus like a disciple. Others try to silence the man (v. 48), but Jesus calls the man to blessing. With a touch peculiar to the Markan version of the story, the man is cheered (v. 49) by the people and dramatically throws off his old cloak (v. 50) to answer Jesus’ invitation. Whenever Mark furnishes his stories with these vivid details, it indicates that he wished to ...

4211. Blessings and Woes

Luke 6:17-26

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Craig A. Evans

... ready to teach his people. As in Luke 5:17, where the “power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick,” so now again power was coming from him and healing them all (v. 19). Luke understands this power as very real, for people were trying to touch him (see 5:13; 7:14; 8:44; 18:15; 22:51; cf. Acts 5:15–16). The emphasis, however, falls on the people who came to hear him (an element not found in the Marcan parallel), which prepares the reader for the sermon. That some of these people had ...

4212. Zacchaeus the Tax Collector

Luke 19:1-10

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Craig A. Evans

19:1–10 In the preceding episode we saw the healing touch of Jesus restoring the sight and faith of a religious outcast of Israel. In the episode at hand we have another example of the restoration of one who was an outcast, not because of physical problems thought to be caused by sin, but because of his occupation. While passing through ...

4213. The Parable of the Tenants

Luke 20:9-19

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... be built (cf. 1 Cor. 3:10–11; Eph. 2:20). Jesus is the capstone (or “cornerstone”) that the builders rejected (as they had rejected the “son” in the parable in vv. 14–15), which will become the foundation. There is an additional touch of irony here when it is noted that the religious leaders called themselves the “Builders of Israel” (Fitzmyer, p. 1282). Israel’s religious leaders, the “Builders,” rejected the very one who would become the capstone for God’s work to come (see note ...

4214. The Beast out of the Earth

Revelation 13:11-18

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Robert W. Wall

... someone in authority. The universal scope of the anti-Christian kingdom on earth is indicated by the coupling of society’s opposites—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—signifying everyone; and the nature of their devotion to evil is pervasive, touching even upon basic economic realities, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark of the beast. Thus, the “seal” of the Evil One secures one’s place within the anti-Christian kingdom, including temporal, material well-being ...

4215. The Sin Offering (II)

Leviticus 6:24-30

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... can representatively consume a holy offering. It is also to be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. The holy and the profane must not mix. The holiness of the offering is contagious and is to be guarded. Any garment touching the offering must be cleansed properly so that blood from the purification offering is removed. If the offering is prepared in a clay pot, then the pot is broken. The contagion could be absorbed in the clay. Apparently clay pots to replace broken ones were ...

4216. The Ark Returned to Israel

1 Samuel 6:1-7:1

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Mary J. Evans

... victory trophy. The sacrifices having been carried out, new blessing might have been expected for Israel, but it was not to be. The sin of the local folk, as with Uzzah (2 Sam. 6), involved not treating the ark with proper respect. The ark was not to be touched or opened by ordinary people, and the treatment of the ark as a victory trophy could have been part of the problem. It was important that the Israelites see the recovery of the ark not as a transfer of control from Philistia back to Israel but as it ...

4217. Israel Routs the Philistines

1 Samuel 14:15-23

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Mary J. Evans

... not be seen as evidence of different sources. 14:18 This reference to the ark is obscure. There is no other evidence for the ark being removed from Kiriath Jearim by Saul, and the order for the priest to withdraw his hand, implying some kind of ritual involving touching the ark, is also unclear. The LXX refers to bringing the ephod, which was at that time worn (by the priest) before the Israelites, and 23:9 and 30:7 use the same phraseology when the priest is called upon to bring the ephod. The ephod used ...

4218. David Mourns

2 Sam 18:19–19:8

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... a slave, was sent instead. Ahimaaz was an intelligent man, and he picked up immediately the significance of Joab’s qualms but asked to be allowed to run anyway. David was sitting between the inner and outer gates (v. 24). This meant that he could be in touch with the watchman on the top of the wall by the gate but could also watch. He remained keenly interested to hear what was going on at the front. With a greater knowledge of the territory, Ahimaaz was able to outrun the Cushite and, just as Joab ...

4219. The King Who Exalts Himself

Daniel 11:36-45

Understanding Series

William Nelson

4220. The End Times

Daniel 12:1-13

Understanding Series

William Nelson

4221. “I Am from Him and He Sent Me”

John 7:25-44

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... displays their ignorance. They no more understand where he is going than where he came from, and their very failure to arrest him (cf. vv. 45–46) fulfills his prediction that they will look for him but will not find him. There is a touch of irony in the remark about teaching the Greeks, for the narrator and his readers know that Jesus’ departure (i.e., his death and resurrection) will indeed spread his teaching throughout the Greek-speaking world. This second exchange between Jesus and the Jerusalem ...

4222. The Disciples' Grief Will Turn to Joy

John 16:17-33, John 16:5-16

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J. Ramsey Michaels

... began with Peter’s “Lord, where are you going?” in 13:36, but here Jesus makes the specific statement that none of you asks me “Where are you going?” (v. 5b). The reference is not simply to questions but to the specific question that touched off the whole discourse comprising 13:36–14:31. It is as if Jesus shows awareness of 13:36 but makes a conscious effort to do things differently. Such a development from “questions” to “no questions” might be appropriate if it made the point that ...

4223. The Death of Jesus

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27, John 19:38-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... is only formal because in the psalm “vinegar” is given with hostile rather than merciful intent: “They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.” In any case, the purpose of the account in John’s Gospel is not to describe a touching act of love toward Jesus but to emphasize that his real thirst was quenched, not by the pitiful momentary refreshment a Roman soldier was able to supply, but by what immediately followed, his return to the Father. A stalk of the hyssop plant: lit., just ...

4224. The Burial of Jesus

John 19:38-42, John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

4225. Jesus Appears to Thomas

John 20:24-31

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... of a week. The meaning is that the appearance took place on the next Sunday after Easter (cf. v. 19). 20:29 Because you have seen me, you have believed. There is no question either about Thomas’ belief or about the basis of it. Jesus does not say that Thomas touched him, and there is no evidence in the text that his skepticism went so far as actually to accept the challenge laid down in v. 27. He believed because he saw, just as the rest of the disciples did (vv. 20, 25; cf. v. 8).

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