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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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1851. The Path of Discipleship

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Grant R. Osborne

... God for their lives and their choices (for Christians giving account, see 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Tim. 2:15; Rev. 22:12). Illustrating the Text Discipleship: the path of the cross Testimony: Jim Caviezel played the role of Jesus in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Before accepting the role, Mel Gibson (the producer and director) warned the actor that the role might cost him his career. But Caviezel, a professing Christian, wanted to honor Jesus by portraying his life and death. He responded to Gibson, “Mel ...

1852. Jesus’s Glory and Majesty Disclosed

Mark 9:2-13

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Grant R. Osborne

... charge of the world. On the basis of the question about Elijah in 9:9, that is how the three interpreted what they had just seen. In and of itself, the transfiguration could support such an understanding. However, it takes place between the first two passion predictions (8:31–33; 9:30–31), so it is clear that triumph will come first through suffering. Still, this episode centers on the glory and majesty yet to come, so it moves from the resurrection/ascension (first coming) to the final victory at the ...

1853. Government and Marriage

Mark 12:18-27, Mark 12:13-17

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Grant R. Osborne

... is part of God’s realm. People submit to government as part of their submission to God (see also Matt. 17:24–27). 12:18 Sadducees. Matthew 22:23 tells us the Sadducees (see the sidebar “Who Were the Sadducees?”) came on the same day (Tuesday of passion week) and have the same purpose: to prove Jesus unworthy to be a rabbi and turn the people against him. 12:19 the man must marry the widow. Their story is based on the law dealing with levirate marriage in Deuteronomy 25:5–10 and also Genesis ...

1854. Jesus Defines Himself as Lord in Contrast to the Leaders of Israel

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40

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Grant R. Osborne

... :38 Watch out for the teachers of law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect. Matthew 23 has an entire chapter on what Mark covers in three verses. The scribes (see on 1:22) have appeared often in the conflicts of passion week (11:18, 27; 12:28, 32, 35) and are set in primary contrast to Jesus, the authoritative voice on Torah. Here Jesus exposes their pride, demand for attention (all too much like the disciples in 9:33–35; 10:35–45), and avarice. The “flowing robes ...

1855. The Passover as Eucharist: Jesus’s Body and Blood Given for Us

Mark 14:27-31

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Grant R. Osborne

... ” of the messianic figure in Zechariah 12:10 (quoted in Rev. 1:7). The striking/piercing is also connected to the “stricken” and “pierced” Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53:4–5, as Zechariah 13:7 becomes virtually a superscription for the Passion Narratives.9Jesus clearly sees himself as the messianic “shepherd” who is to die for fallen humankind. the sheep will be scattered. The disciples as the “scattered sheep” fulfill the picture of the people of the fallen nation scattered to the winds ...

1856. Peter Denies Jesus

Mark 14:66-72

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Grant R. Osborne

... contrast during Jesus’s trial: the horror of Peter thinking only of himself and denying Jesus with greater intensity on each of three occasions, versus Jesus, who suffers and dies for Peter as his redeeming Lord. Understanding the Text As seen throughout the Passion Narrative, Jesus is in complete, sovereign control of the awful events taking place. The leaders of his people have not only rejected him but also have placed him on trial for his life, declared him guilty, and condemned him to death. These ...

1857. The Supernatural Witness to the Significance of Jesus’s Death

Mark 15:42-47

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Grant R. Osborne

... is none other than the Son of God. (5) Even Jesus’s burial shows his royalty as God’s Messiah. Teaching the Text 1. Jesus’s death opens up new access to God. As noted above, the tearing of the veil encapsulates the judgment prophecies of Jesus during passion week, but it also proclaims a primary result of Jesus’s death: a new entrance into the presence of God. Hebrews 10:19–20 (cf. 6:19; 9:12–13) tells how Jesus’s death “opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most ...

1858. A Special Child Promised

Luke 1:5-25

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R.T. France

... kept on happening ever since and is happening still.1 Social Commentary: Christ and the Media, by Malcolm Muggeridge. Muggeridge expresses beautifully the drama Jesus’s intervention in history would bring, “the great drama of the Incarnation, the Passion and the Resurrection.” He adds, All the greatest artists, poets and musicians dedicated their genius to celebrating it, and . . . majestic cathedrals were built to enshrine it, and religious orders were founded to serve it. . . . Mystics spent their ...

1859. Testing in the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

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R.T. France

... Christ would not be that “crazy.” Muggeridge writes, “Jesus was crazy,” and “did turn it down . . . as he did the other three temptations. He was concerned with truth and reality,” the media with “fantasy and images.” Jesus was “involved in another scenario altogether . . . the great drama of the Incarnation, the Passion and the Resurrection.”1This work contemporizes the way Christ’s temptations might manifest themselves in modern society.

1860. “Love Your Enemies”

Luke 6:27-38

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R.T. France

... a terrible human being, Raskolnikov, who calculatingly murders two people and arrogantly insists on the reasonableness of his deed. Despite his horrific deeds, Raskolnikov is shown grace and love by a converted prostitute, Sonya. She not only enjoins him with passion and wisdom “to accept suffering and achieve atonement,” but also lovingly stays by his side, even going with him to Siberia when he serves his sentence there. She refuses to compromise her belief that all must accept the consequences of ...

1861. Ready for the Kingdom of God?

Luke 13:31-35, Luke 13:22-30, Luke 13:18-21

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R.T. France

... bringing of thee almost to destruction; hate, therefore, his turning thee out of the way, and abhor thy self for hearkening to him.2 In Christ’s lament one can see his suffering from loving those who rejected him. Poetry: “The Incarnation and Passion,” by Henry Vaughan. Vaughan (1621–95), a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet, was greatly influenced by George Herbert, to whom he attributed his conversion to Christ. A few verses from this poem are as follows: Lord! When thou didst thy self undress ...

1862. The Revolutionary Values of the Kingdom of God

Luke 18:31-34, Luke 18:18-30, Luke 18:15-17

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R.T. France

... execution (chap. 23); Luke will not there specifically mention spitting and flogging, but see Mark 15:15, 19. 18:34 The disciples did not understand any of this. See the equally emphatic threefold statement, though in different words, after the previous passion prediction in 9:45. The disciples’ privileged insight (8:10) has not yet extended to grasping the reality or the purpose of Jesus’s death in Jerusalem. Theological Insights The fact that the phrase “the kingdom of God” occurs five times ...

1863. Use It or Lose It

Luke 19:11-27

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R.T. France

... of discipleship, what it means to personally reach out to help in practical and not always easy ways, to resist temptation and live his faith, and to have his life vitally intertwined with people. When he returns to his estate, he can address with more passion what it means to be a disciple of Christ. Many scenes could be shown, but particularly interesting is his speech when he returns home. Faithfulness in small things is significant in God’s view. Poetry: “Am I Thy Gold?” by Edward Taylor. In this ...

1864. The Coming of the King

Luke 19:45-48, Luke 19:28-44

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R.T. France

... the king of Israel And David’s royal Son, Now in the Lord’s name coming, Our King and Blessed One. The multitude of pilgrims With palms before you went, Our praise and prayer and anthems Before you we present. To you before your Passion, They sang their hymns of praise. To you now high exalted, Our melody we raise. Jesus’s most poignant and unrestrained wailing was over Jerusalem’s stubborn unbelief. Hymn: “O Patient Christ,” by Margaret Wade Deland. This more recent hymn, by the American poet ...

1865. On the Mount of Olives

Luke 22:47-53, Luke 22:39-46, Luke 22:7-38

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R.T. France

... ’s continuing experience of persecution that he will chronicle in Acts. 22:37 he was numbered with the transgressors. This is the only direct quotation from the portrait of God’s servant in Isaiah 53 in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s passion, though most interpreters regard Isaiah 53 as a major source of Jesus’s conviction that his suffering and death were foretold in Scripture (cf. 18:31); note the emphatic fulfillment formula here. The predicted endgame has begun, and when Jesus is arrested ...

1866. The Trials of Peter and of Jesus

Luke 22:66--23:25, Luke 22:63-65, Luke 22:54-62

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R.T. France

... levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system—that is no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality. . . . I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this man to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.2 Atticus Finch’s words are ignored. Robinson is convicted, and he is shot while trying to escape from prison.

1867. The Whole World Is under the Curses of the Covenant

Romans 3:9-20

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C. Marvin Pate

... ’s obedience will merit favor before God. This is because the law reveals the sinful heart of each individual and shows how far short each one falls of the divine righteousness (see Rom. 3:23). More than that, according to verses such as Romans 7:5 (“the sinful passions [are] aroused by the law”), the law of God actually motivates people to defy God’s commands. All of this is, of course, very bad news. But this bad news, as Romans 3:21–31 will go on to say, is designed to drive the sinner to the ...

1868. The Christian’s New Dominion: Dedicated to Righteousness

Romans 6:15-23

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C. Marvin Pate

... /sanctification. I suggest that the “fruit” (karpos) of impurity that Paul has in mind in 6:21 was stimulated by the law of Moses, since he uses the same word for the law’s work in 7:5: “For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.” 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Jewett makes an important comment about the contrast here between the wages or earnings (ops?nion) of ...

1869. Freedom from the Law through Christ, Enslavement to the Law through Adam

Romans 7:7-25, Romans 7:1-6

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C. Marvin Pate

... you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.6 Film: The Passion of the Christ. This film (2004) is a powerful and graphic portrayal of the suffering and death of Jesus. In one scene, Jesus is praying in the garden of Gethsemane, clearly in great distress over his approaching death. At this moment, Satan appears in the form ...

1870. The Spirit and the Glory of the Age to Come and the New Covenant

Romans 8:28-39, Romans 8:18-27

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C. Marvin Pate

... interpreted Abraham’s offering of his son (known as the Aqedah) as an atonement for sin. Besides hyper h?m?n in 8:31, we meet with another juridical action of God in the phrase “gave him up.” The verb here is paradid?mi, which the Gospel passion predictions pick up from Isaiah 53 and apply to Jesus. The next clause in 8:32, “how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” is a “major to minor” argument (recall our treatment of qal wahomer in the discussion of Rom. 4 ...

1871. The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Replacing Law with Faith

Romans 9:30--10:21

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C. Marvin Pate

... Mission Conference gave him the lifetime service award. “No doubt Winter will take greater pleasure in meeting the men and women from every tribe, tongue and nation who praise the name of Jesus in glory—all because of his passion to spread Christ’s message.”4 Biography: David Brainerd. A great missionary statesman, Brainerd (1718–47) worked among the American Indians. He was powerfully motivated to evangelism. He suffered all kinds of distresses, including both physical discomfort and emotional ...

1872. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

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C. Marvin Pate

... For even Christ did not please himself. The rationale for such an exhortation to the strong is that Christ sacrificed himself for others. Quoting Psalm 69:9, Paul applies that text to Christ. Christ has embraced the reproaches heaped upon God by sinners. Psalm 69 is applied to the passion of Christ in the New Testament (Matt. 27:34, 48; Mark 15:23, 36; Luke 23:36; John 2:17; 15:25; 19:29; Acts 1:20; Rom. 11:9–10), so it is fitting that Paul would quote from it in this context. Just as Christ was willing ...

1873. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

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C. Marvin Pate

... “fool for Christ.” In one particularly evocative scene from the novel, the story of Marie, Prince Myshkin quietly accepts the ridicule that he is an idiot. Myshkin dominates the novel, showing a desire to offer people an alternative to the violent passions and conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia. The novel has been adapted into films, operas, and stage plays, and the book itself also has appeared in movies throughout the years on coffee tables, referred to and being read by various characters in the ...

1874. Imitation and Role Modeling

1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1, 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

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Preben Vang

... : worship and head coverings. Interpretive Insights 10:14–15 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. The inferential “therefore” coupled with Paul’s endearing relational reminder “my dear friends” gives the opening command to flee idolatry a passionate, pastoral tone. Paul is not dealing with a minor issue but is touching on the core of the Christ community’s covenantal understanding. The parallel structure of the command to “flee idolatry” with “flee from sexual immorality ...

1875. Last Encouragement and Final Greeting

1 Corinthians 16:19-24, 1 Corinthians 16:5-18

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Preben Vang

... their mission and purpose in the kingdom because they are tired and depressed; they become tired and depressed when they retreat from their mission and purpose in the kingdom. Bible: Joshua 14:6–12. Caleb, son of Jephunneh, gives a great example of courage and passion in old age. His speech in Joshua 14 shows the way God’s promise can invigorate a lifetime of service, and the way the Lord’s strength can enable great feats regardless of age or health, so long as there is courage and faith in one ...

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