John 18:28<\/a><\/p>\nCompare Luke 22:66<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a certain black humor \u2014 perhaps intended, perhaps not \u2014 in John\u2019s little detail about how the chief priests and elders decline to enter into the praetorium, lest they be ritually defiled just before the Passover while they\u2019re engaged in orchestrating a judicial assassination.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.\u201d (Hosea 6:6)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWherewith shall I come before the\u00a0Lord<\/span>, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? \u00a0<\/span>Will the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? \u00a0He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?\u201d \u00a0(Micah 6:6-8)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
On a much lower level of importance: \u00a0I grew up in a part-member family where \u2014 until, around the time of my mission, my father converted and my mother got more serious \u2014 coffee was regularly consumed by both the member and the non-member. \u00a0There was a rather strange Church member whom we knew who would visit us, but who often declined to bring her children into the house lest they catch a whiff of coffee. \u00a0Several times, she arrived to tell us with delight that one or the other of her daughters was about to have a baby \u2014 out of wedlock. \u00a0When my mother once asked whether their being unmarried didn\u2019t concern her a bit, she responded that the important thing was to bring the little spirits down from heaven and give them bodies. \u00a0Working as a nurse in a hospital, she eventually abandoned her own husband and children to run off with one or her patients, but not before he had read the Book of Mormon through. \u00a0I hope and expect that there\u2019s an insanity defense in heaven.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Matthew 27:1-2 Mark 15:1 Luke 23:1 John 18:28 Compare Luke 22:66 \u00a0 There\u2019s a certain black humor \u2014 perhaps intended, perhaps not \u2014 in John\u2019s little detail about how the chief priests and elders decline to enter into the praetorium, lest they be ritually defiled just before the Passover while they\u2019re engaged in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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