Mark 1:16-20<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
In these accounts, Jesus calls Galilean fishermen \u2014 not Sadducean aristocrats or priests or scholarly Pharisees \u2014 to serve as his apostles.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m reminded of an experience from my undergraduate years. \u00a0A philosophy professor of mine went back for some sort of academic conference at Georgetown University right about the time of the open house for the new Washington DC Temple, and returned with a copy of the Georgetown student newspaper. \u00a0He gave it to me.<\/p>\n
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There was an exceedingly snarky article in it, in which several Georgetown grad students made merry over their visit to the soon-to-be dedicated temple. \u00a0They must have been permitted to join in a VIP tour. \u00a0Several passages linger in my memory from the article, but the one that\u2019s relevant here concerns their shaking hands with Edward Drury, the newly-called president of the temple. \u00a0He had, they said, been an executive with the Singer sewing machine company in his earlier life. \u00a0With exquisite disdain, they wondered how many sewing machines his hands had made and sold.<\/p>\n
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Georgetown is a Catholic university. \u00a0The Catholic Church is presided over by the Pope, the successor of St. Peter, who sits, according to Catholic belief, in the chair of Peter. \u00a0St. Peter\u2019s Basilica is built over the tomb of St. Peter, \u201cthe prince of the apostles.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I couldn\u2019t help but reflect about what their reaction might have been had they been obliged to shake hands with that lower-class rural Galilean. \u00a0Had he been to university? \u00a0Had he taken a rigorous course of study in theology and philosophy? \u00a0Did he have refined and sophisticated taste in food and the arts? \u00a0Did he smell of fish? \u00a0Were his hands rough and sunburned?<\/p>\n
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How icky!<\/p>\n
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