{"id":71344,"date":"2019-03-10T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=71344"},"modified":"2019-03-10T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T05:50:20","slug":"new-testament-notes-94-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/03\/new-testament-notes-94-95.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 94-95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Galilean<\/a>
A landscape in the Galilee, near Tiberias, during the dry season \u00a0(Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 9:14-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 2:18-22<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 5:33-39<\/a><\/p>\n

John 3:29-30<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two brief points to make in connection with these passages:<\/p>\n

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1. \u00a0Jesus obliquely warns his disciples here that he won\u2019t always be with them.<\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0He\u2019s indicating the need in his day for a restoration rather than a mere reformation. \u00a0The same held true in the early nineteenth century, as well.<\/p>\n

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\"Tissot's<\/a>
James Tissot, \u201cL\u2019h\u00e9moro\u00efsse\u201d (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 9:18-26<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 5:21-43<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 8:40-56<\/a><\/p>\n

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These accounts are interesting, among other reasons, because the story of one miracle is contained within the story of another.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll concentrate on just one of the two miracles here. \u00a0We\u2019ll return to the story of Jairus\u2019s daughter at a later point.<\/p>\n

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Try to imagine the case of the woman with a hemorrhage. \u00a0For twelve years. \u00a0One hundred and forty-four months. \u00a0Six hundred and twenty-four weeks.<\/p>\n

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Near financial ruin. \u00a0(She had, the accounts say, spent nearly everything she had.) \u00a0And still getting worse, the gospels tell us.<\/p>\n

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Ritually unclean, too. \u00a0Therefore unmarriageable. \u00a0A social outcast. \u00a0 And, even if already married, unable to bear children.<\/p>\n

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Yet the mere faithful touch of Jesus\u2019 garment heals her.<\/p>\n

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But he perceives that \u201cvirtue\u201d has gone out of him.<\/p>\n

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Does that mean that he\u2019s lost something of his goodness?<\/p>\n

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No. \u00a0Virtue<\/em> here means power<\/em>. \u00a0(Shakespeare speaks fairly often of the \u201cvirtue\u201d of herbs and potions.)<\/p>\n

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In fact \u2014 and ironically despite the tendency of our sexist culture to connect it more with women than with men \u2014 it\u2019s originally connected with the notion of \u201cmanliness.\u201d \u00a0Vir<\/em>, in Latin, means \u201cman,\u201d in the sense of a masculine human. \u00a0Think, too, of the cognate word werewolf,<\/em>\u00a0or \u201cman-wolf.\u201d \u00a0(I once made this explanation in a Gospel Doctrine class and failed to erase the words virtue<\/em> and werewolf<\/em> from the blackboard. \u00a0I\u2019m told that when a different ward\u2019s Relief Society came into the room after I was done, they were very puzzled \u2014 understandably so \u2014 as to what kind of lesson had just been taught there.)<\/p>\n

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Here are some relevant resources for New Testament study, accessible and available at no charge:<\/p>\n

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\u201cCome, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0New Testament Lesson 10:\u00a0March 4\u201310 Matthew 8\u20139;\u00a0Mark 2\u20135:\u00a0\u201cThy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWatch: What You Might Not Have Known About the Woman with an Issue of Blood + the Symbolism of Jesus\u2019s Garment\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c3 Ways the Savior Healed People by His Touch. And How You Can Be Healed.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cCome Follow Me 2019: Matthew 8\u20139; Mark 2\u20135\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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