{"id":74727,"date":"2019-06-04T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=74727"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:28:21","slug":"new-testament-notes-360-366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/new-testament-notes-360-366.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 360-366"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I spoke to my group at this very (Catholic) altar, located beside the Church of the Primacy of Peter on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a couple of days ago. It is the traditional location of the events related in John 21. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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John 21:1-14\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Luke 5:1-11<\/p>\n

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The curious comment in John 21:12 (\u201cNow none of the disciples dared ask him, \u2018Who are you?\u2019 \u00a0They knew it was the Lord.\u201d) suggests, again<\/a>, that Jesus\u2019 appearance in his resurrected state was slightly altered from his mortal appearance.<\/p>\n

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\"Korinthos,<\/a>
\u201cCorinth with Akrocorinth,\u201d by\u00a0Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (1846)
Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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1 Corinthians 15:3-8<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s often forgotten that there\u2019s another early Old World witness to the Resurrection of Christ, quite independent from the accounts given by the four gospels: some of the early verses of chapter fifteen in Paul\u2019s first letter to the Corinthians. \u00a0(Notice, for example, that Paul\u2019s text omits mention of the women at the tomb \u2014 and, indeed, of any women at all. \u00a0Perhaps the omission can be explained by the fact that Paul was a Pharisee \u2014 effectively an ancient Jewish lawyer \u2014 and that women\u2019s testimony was of little if any value in his world.)<\/p>\n

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The letter\u00a0probably dates to between AD 53 and AD 57, which puts it well within\u00a0twenty five years\u00a0of the Resurrection, and possibly within twenty. \u00a0Moreover, it claims to be discussing material that Paul had taught to the Corinthians earlier, and that he himself had received much earlier still. \u00a0We\u2019re getting fairly close, therefore, to the actual event.<\/p>\n

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Paul is actually calling, as he says, on still-living witnesses. \u00a0There is little room here for creative, fact-free myth-building or for the very gradual emergence of folk-legends.<\/p>\n

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\"Tissot<\/a>
\u201cThe Ascension,\u201d by\u00a0James Tissot (ca. 1886-1894)
Wikimedia Commons public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Matthew 28:16-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark 16:9-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Luke 24:44-53<\/a><\/p>\n

John 20:30-31<\/a><\/p>\n

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1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The gospel of Matthew ends with the so-called \u201cGreat Commission\u201d: \u00a0\u201cGo therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The emphasis is on worldwide proselytizing (check!) and on preaching obedience to Christ\u2019s commandments (check!). \u00a0Not a whiff of salvation by grace alone.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The gospel of Mark has occasioned some considerable debate at this point, because the surviving manuscripts contain two different endings. \u00a0The \u201cshorter ending,\u201d which follows immediately upon the familiar \u00a0Mark 16:1-8<\/a>, reads as follows: \u00a0\u201cBut they reported briefly to Peter and those with him all that they had been told. \u00a0And after this, Jesus himself sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The \u201clonger ending,\u201d however \u2014 which is the familiar ending that\u2019s contained in the LDS version and essentially\u00a0all other versions of the New Testament \u2014 contains another form of the \u201cgreat commission,\u201d as well as accounts of several post-resurrection appearances by the Lord.<\/p>\n

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3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The gospel of Luke concludes with a brief description of Christ\u2019s ascension, but it also alludes to something like the \u201cgreat commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

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4.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The gospel of John, as I\u2019ve recently observed<\/a>, closes with a candid admission that it has omitted many things that could have been said about Jesus. \u00a0However, it explains that there has been a conscious principle of selection at work: \u00a0\u201cNow Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other words, John doesn\u2019t claim to be writing a modern academic biography. \u00a0He\u2019s writing \u201cfaithful history.\u201d \u00a0And the same can surely be said of the other gospel writers, as well. \u00a0Their coverage of Jesus\u2019 childhood, youth, and early manhood is, at best, sparse. \u00a0They never tell us what he looked like nor how he dressed. \u00a0They say nothing of his early education. \u00a0They fail to tell us many of the things that a modern biographer would want to know. \u00a0In this regard, the Joseph Smith Translation\u2019s labeling of the four gospels as \u201cThe Testimony<\/em> of Matthew,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Testimony<\/em>\u00a0of Mark,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Testimony<\/em>\u00a0of Luke,\u201d and \u201cThe\u00a0Testimony<\/em>\u00a0of John\u201d seems to me profoundly insightful.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n

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