One final thought. When Josephus<\/a> says that John\u2019s followers seemed ready to do anything for him<\/a>, so that Herod was concerned, might not Jesus\u2019 action in the Temple be in mind? Might not Jesus\u2019 action in the Temple have led rather directly to John\u2019s imprisonment, to Jesus\u2019 withdrawal to Galilee, and thus eventually to his sense that his own fate my parallel John\u2019s? Is it also perhaps due to the reaction to this prediction that Jesus was from then on inclined to use the less direct \u2018son of man\u2019 rather than \u2018I\u2019?<\/p>\n I am still wondering about the saying attributed to Jesus in various forms in various Gospels (and in Mark, denied as a false accusation), \u201cI will destroy this temple and in three days rebuild it\u201d. That something like this was the earliest form is most probable, and it seems to be authentic. The big question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2757228580875702262?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")