{"id":73922,"date":"2019-05-06T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=73922"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:19:53","slug":"new-testament-notes-270-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/05\/new-testament-notes-270-274.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 270-274"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Some of the stones are still there after nearly two thousand years.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 19:41-44<\/a><\/p>\n

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When you visit the area of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which is utterly free of traces of the famous Temple of Herod, and when you see the massive stones crashed around the southwestern corner of the Temple platform, you realize something of the effort that the Romans made to ensure (though they didn\u2019t know that they were fulfilling prophecy) that no stone of the Temple itself would be left atop another.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChrist expels the moneychangers,\u201d by\u00a0Cecco de Caravaggio (ca. 1610-1620)
Wikimedia Commons Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 21:10-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 11:15-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Mark 11:11; Luke 19:39-40, 45-46; 21:37<\/p>\n

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Some speak of Jesus as someone infinitely accepting of all lifestyles, never condemnatory, never excluding anybody. \u00a0This Jesus does not seem to appear in the New Testament.<\/p>\n

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A Byzantine icon of Jesus cursing the fig tree
(Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 21:18-19<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 11:12-14<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Luke 13:6-9<\/p>\n

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Some have seen in this strange little episode a fit of unreasonable pique on Jesus\u2019 part. \u00a0But that isn\u2019t so. \u00a0Here\u2019s a concise explanation of what the story means:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.cgg.org\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/Library.sr\/CT\/BQA\/k\/72\/Why-Did-Jesus-Curse-Fig-Tree-Mark-1112-14.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cJesus Casting Out the Moneychangers,\u201d by\u00a0Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834-1890)
(Wikimedia Commons Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mark 11:15-17<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 19:45-46<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17<\/p>\n

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Once more, the ever-accepting, totally non-judgmental Jesus asserted by some seems to be completely invisible in the New Testament.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, we can\u2019t use his example here to charter our own harsh behavior toward those of whom we disapprove or with whom we disagree. \u00a0Jesus was the Only Begotten Son of God, the Messiah, and the Redeemer. \u00a0He was morally perfect. \u00a0We aren\u2019t. \u00a0Thus, we lack not only the authority but the standing.<\/p>\n

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But it seems clear that the notion of Christianity as a vague thing without standards and unable to form judgments has no basis in the gospel accounts of the life of Christ.<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, the harmony that I\u2019m following \u2014 Kurt Aland, Synopsis of the Four Gospels: Greek-English Edition of the Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum<\/em>, 14th ed. (Stuttgart: German Bible Society, 2009) \u2014 makes this a separate entry (273) from entry 271 (above), for reasons that aren\u2019t immediately clear to me.<\/p>\n

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Gustave Dor\u00e9, \u201cThe House of Caiaphas\u201d (1875);\u00a0Wikimedia Commons public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mark 11:18-19<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 19:47-48<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Luke 21:37; John 8:1-2; 11:45-53<\/p>\n

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Jesus is forcing a confrontation with the Jerusalem elite. \u00a0He\u2019s challenging them. \u00a0His raising of Lazarus and his cleansing of the temple, in which he\u2019s now teaching, have made him more and more public, and they have no choice but to react. \u00a0Of course, they could have accepted<\/em> him. \u00a0That would have been one<\/em> reaction. \u00a0But they chose another path.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Jericho, Palestinian Territory<\/p>\n

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