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2301. Prayer Changes Things

Mark 2:1-12

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Charley Reeb

... in the front door. But they did not give up. They had faith that they could get to Jesus and he could heal their friend. They climbed up on the roof of the house and dug a hole through it and lowered their friend down to Jesus. Jesus was so impressed with their faith that he forgave the paralytic’s sins on the spot and told him to get up and walk. He got up and walked right out of the house! Praying with faith is powerful. Don’t ever give up on your prayers. There is one more thing we ...

2302. Learn To Play Again

Mark 10:13-16

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Charley Reeb

... ? To glorify God and enjoy him forever!” I come across so many people who won’t allow God into their lives because they think God is going to make them give up fun. Many misguided Christians have perpetuated this nonsense. They give off the impression that to become a Christian means the party is over — that being spiritual means being miserable. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, to become a Christian means the party is just beginning. When you have the joy of Christ in your heart ...

2303. The Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-13

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... Beare, p. 361). We take 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 ...

2304. The Triumphal Entry

Matthew 21:1-11

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Robert H. Mounce

... and brought the donkey. When they had laid their outer garments (himation normally designates the cloak or outer covering) on them (the animals) Jesus sat on them (the garments). Gundry pictures the garments draped over both animals and Jesus sitting on the colt, which gives the impression of a kind of wide throne (p. 410). The large crowd that was following along with Jesus spread their cloaks on the road, as well as branches that they had cut from trees (cf. the festive scene in 2 Kings 9:13; also 1 Macc ...

2305. Jesus Morality

Matthew 10:40-42

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Tom Garrison

... 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 or law that had been established in the past. These people are concerned with the wisdom that has been distilled down through the ...

2306. Playing One Hand

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

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Tom Garrison

... percent falls somewhere in between. Your problem is that you want every sermon to be in that top ten percent register, and that simply is an inhuman ideal. If you don't learn how to accept this fact, it's going to kill you." Those words made a deep impression, for they speak to a distortion in our mechanism of expectation that will destroy us if it is not corrected. The church leader was right. None of us is at his or her best all the time. Our capacity to rise to the heights is matched by our capacity ...

2307. Jesus Heals a Paralytic

Mark 2:1-12

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Larry W. Hurtado

... say that only God can forgive sins (v. 7), but Jesus wishes to show that the Son of Man has such authority on earth (v. 10), and the contrast between God and the Son of Man is evident and intentional. At the same time, we get the impression that the point of the story is not that any human can exercise God’s authority, but rather that this particular human can do so. This seems to be the significance of the definite article, the Son of Man, which functions here almost as a demonstrative pronoun, “this ...

2308. Jesus and Beelzebub

Mark 3:20-30

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Larry W. Hurtado

... rest; (2) critics, who accuse Jesus of being a sorcerer in league with Satan (Beelzebub; see note); and (3) those who do God’s will and who are treated favorably as Jesus’ true “family” (3:33–35). This third group is not directly named, but the impression given is that it is made up of Jesus’ disciples. Thus, the overall point of 3:20–35 is to contrast these three responses to Jesus’ ministry, highlighting the third as the only correct one. This third response, shown by those who sit at his ...

2309. A Dead Girl and A Sick Woman

Mark 5:21-43

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Larry W. Hurtado

... girl seems designed to reject any hint of magical technique. He creates a note of mystery by saying that only the parents and three of the disciples were allowed into the room where the miracle was performed. He appears to compound this impression by giving the actual Aramaic words Jesus used, such foreign words sounding a bit like a magic formula; but then he dissolves this magical atmosphere by translating the “formula,” (something not to be done in magic circles!). The translation clarifies that this ...

2310. Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

Mark 8:1-13

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Larry W. Hurtado

... signs” to try to lead the church astray. It is possible that Mark’s refusal to use the term sign to describe Jesus’ works may have been motivated by a desire to avoid shallow comparisons between Jesus and wonder-workers of his time who tried to impress people with their powers. In another sense, however, it is evident that for Mark the miracles of Jesus were signs of God’s favor and indications of the kingdom of God breaking in upon human life through Jesus’ ministry. 8:12 Sighed deeply: The Greek ...

2311. Jesus Anointed at Bethany

Mark 14:1-11

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Larry W. Hurtado

... where Jesus might be found at night and almost alone (cf. vv. 10–11, 43–50). 14:3 In the home of a man known as Simon the Leper: We do not otherwise know of this man. John 12:1–8 describes a strikingly similar incident, but the impression is that the supper was at the house of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha; and the woman who anoints Jesus in the account is Mary. John (12:5) mentions the nard as worth three hundred denarii (“a year’s wages,” NTV), and there is the discussion about the poor ...

2312. The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

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Craig A. Evans

... . 3:21–22 Luke’s statement that Jesus was the last to be baptized (v. 21) is strategic. By mentioning John’s imprisonment so early in the narrative, an event which Mark (6:17–18) and Matthew (14:3–4) report much later, and by leaving the impression that Jesus is the last to be baptized, Luke succeeds in making a clean break between the end of John’s ministry and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. The time of the Law and the Prophets is over; now the kingdom of God (which in Luke’s account ...

2313. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

Luke 9:10-17

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Craig A. Evans

... indeed two accounts of the same incident. But of equal plausibility is the possibility that Mark (or, less likely, the tradition before him) has deliberately underscored many of the points of similarity that have been observed, thereby creating the impression that the two episodes were virtually identical. It could be that because of the great significance that the evangelist Mark attached to the feeding miracles, understood as revealing something crucial about the nature of Jesus and his messiahship, he ...

2314. The Healing of a Boy With an Evil Spirit

Luke 9:37-45

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Craig A. Evans

... his disciples that rejection, humiliation, and suffering are what lie ahead for him. Luke has presented the paradox as sharply as possible. It is no wonder, then, that the disciples did not understand what this meant. Mark’s account leaves the impression that the disciples were incredibly dull in their understanding (which is Mark’s intended effect), but here in Luke the disciples’ lack of comprehension seems quite understandable. In view of his mighty power what does this statement mean? How can he ...

2315. Jesus and Beelzebub

Luke 11:14-28

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Craig A. Evans

... a parallel between Deut. 10:12–11:32 and Luke 11:27–12:12, which contain such ideas as “blessing” (Deut. 11:26–27; Luke 11:27–28), “eye(s)” (Deut. 11:7, 12; Luke 11:34), stranger or alien (Deut. 10:19; Luke 11:30–32). The most impressive parallel has to do with laws pertaining to clean and unclean (cf. Deut. 12:1–16 with Luke 11:37–12:12). Here again is further evidence that Luke has indeed ordered his teaching portion of the Central Section (10:1–18:14) after Deuteronomy 1–26 (see ...

2316. Warnings and Encouragements

Luke 12:1-12

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Craig A. Evans

... . 10:28: “but cannot kill the soul”). God is the one whom all should fear, because he has power to throw people into hell. This saying follows vv. 1–3 as a warning not to practice hypocrisy of the Pharisees out of fear or out of a felt need to impress those who have authority. It is far wiser to please (or fear, which means to hold in respect) God, whose authority greatly exceeds that of any mortal, than it is to please people and thereby incur God’s wrath. The second saying (vv. 6–7) is a word of ...

2317. Jesus at a Pharisee's House

Luke 14:1-14

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Craig A. Evans

... honor, so it is a human tendency to do good things for one’s friends (or those whom one hopes to make a friend) in anticipation of having the favors returned. Jesus advises his host that kindness shown to those who will repay with kindness does not impress God. Again, when seen in the broader context of Luke 14, it is probable that an allusion to the concern over the question of who will enter the kingdom of God (thought of as a dinner or feast) is intended. Jesus’ advice not to invite one’s friends ...

2318. A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight

Luke 18:35-43

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Craig A. Evans

... p. 405; see also Matt. 8:28–34; 21:1–7.) Another interesting difference is that in Mark 10:46 Jesus is apparently leaving Jericho (so also Matt. 20:29), but in Luke 18:35 Jesus is approaching Jericho. The reason that Luke wants to leave the impression that Jesus is not leaving Jericho when he heals the blind man is to accommodate the Zacchaeus episode that follows (19:1–10), which also takes place in Jericho. Jesus could hardly be in the process of leaving Jericho when he heals the blind man and then ...

2319. The Triumphal Entry

Luke 19:28-44

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Craig A. Evans

... 11:10: “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” By omitting this exclamation, Luke is careful to convey the idea that what has arrived is not the “kingdom,” but the “king.” Saying that the kingdom is coming could leave the impression that the kingdom of God should have been inaugurated with Jesus’ arrival at Jerusalem (or shortly thereafter). This idea Luke is careful to avoid. This may explain why Luke omits mention of the palm branches (see Mark 11:8), which signify political ...

2320. The Crucifixion

Luke 23:26-43

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Craig A. Evans

... that he will be with him that very day in paradise (see note below). Additional Notes 23:26 Because Luke omits Mark 15:16–20a, the passage that describes the Roman soldiers’ mistreatment of Jesus, it could be that the evangelist intends to leave the impression that the Jews themselves crucified Jesus. J. T. Sanders (p. 226) thinks so. This could be, but Luke does mention the centurion later in v. 47. Surely this is supposed to be a Roman centurion (and not a Jewish one). Sanders (p. 228) agrees. Because ...

2321. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

Romans 5:12-21

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James R. Edwards

... significance, Adam for death and Christ for life. In the one respect that his sin has universal consequences Adam becomes a type for Christ. Thus, Paul calls Adam a pattern of the one to come. The Greek word for pattern, typos, means “the impression made by a blow,” hence a “stamp,” “model,” or “pattern.” In all other respects, however, Adam and Christ are antitypes, for the wrong which Adam did in his disobedience, Christ in his obedience did not do; and the good which Adam could not ...

2322. Struggling with Sin

Romans 7:7-25

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James R. Edwards

... who discovers a corpse can be said to be the killer. 7:14 From verse 14 onward the first person singular pronoun and the present tense command center stage. Although some commentators doubt that Paul is speaking here personally, he gives every impression of shifting from a historical identification with Adam in verses 7–13 to a personal and existential lament in verses 14ff. The contrast between the spirituality of the law and the unspirituality of humanity dominates the thought until the end of the ...

2323. Israel's Unbelief

Romans 9:30--10:21

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James R. Edwards

... interpretations of Deuteronomy 30:11–14 in 2 Apoc. Bar. 3:29–30, Tg. Neof. on Deut. 30, and Philo, On the Posterity and Exile of Cain 84–85 as evidence of its varied interpretations in Judaism; see Romans 9–16, pp. 604–5. For Barth’s impressive exposition of this passage, see Romans, pp. 377–79. 10:9–10 For Augustine’s pertinent story of belief and confession, see Additional Notes §14 (6:3–4). 10:11–13 Luther applies verse 12 to prayer: “God is rich as he hears our prayers, but we ...

2324. The Weak and the Strong

Romans 14:1--15:13

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James R. Edwards

... allowed the consumption of anything, another’s restricted the diet to vegetables (vv. 2–3). The same seems to have been true with regard to drinking wine (14:21) and to the observance of holidays and festivals (vv. 5–6). The general impression is that persons of weaker faith rather scrupulously observed these matters, whereas those of stronger faith felt themselves free from such observances. Who were the “strong” and “weak”? We cannot know for certain, but it appears that the weak refer to ...

2325. Thanksgiving

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Marion L. Soards

... of gifts; his concern lies with the Corinthians. 1:6 Paul continues his thanksgiving with another word of explanation, although the rendering of the Greek word kathōs as because in the NIV (compare the translation in the NRSV, “just as”) gives the mistaken impression that Paul is adding a causal remark to what he has said. Rather, here he forms a comparison between the reality of God’s endowing the Corinthians with spiritual gifts and God’s initial act of grace in bring the Corinthians to faith in ...

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