Not exact matches
(Much of my own appreciation of this
passage comes from
reading Jean Vanier's book Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the
Gospel of John.)
I think that most of us, in
reading through this
passage in the past, or in hearing someone else teach on it, have thought that the sandals are the
gospel.
We
read Gospel passages and related Old Testament lections except during the season of Easter, when Acts is
read as the new Israel continues the history of the old.
In the Revised Standard Version (1946) this
passage is set apart in small italic type, and the marginal note
reads: «Other ancient authorities add 7:53 - 8:11 either here or at the end of this
gospel or after Luke 21:38, with variations of the text.»
However the NIV inserts a word not in the Greek, so 4:6
reads «this is why the
Gospel was preached even to those who are now dead...» The translators admit the «now» is not in the Greek but say that they put it there to make clear that the
passage doesn't refer to post mortem opportunity which they claim is ruled out by Hebrews 9:27 «it is appointed unto to man once to die and then comes judgement».
I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and
read the first
passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a
gospel text.
You can intersperse a
reading of a
Gospel passage or a psalm with a short song.
It is true, of course, that when the hypothesis is applied, some
passages at once fit in with the Petrine theory, especially in chapter 1; but others definitely do not, and surely no one with only this
Gospel before him would ever suspect that it was a mélange of Peter s reminiscences he was
reading.
All I am saying is, and people start
reading me in context now, Jesus had these moments throughout the
gospel — emotional aspects to his being that reveal various sides to Jesus... and what some might call weak moments (and the garden is that — he is doubting in that
passage after all).
Brad, i have
read this
passage before... isn't it found in the
gospel of judus?
found a place in our Gospels as a «discourse» of Jesus concerning the end, and there it is still to be
read today, in the thirteenth chapter of Mark's
Gospel and in the corresponding
passages in Matthew and Luke.
But when I
read this
passage the works that seemed to be the most important for the sheep of God is to witness the
gospel to the goats.
Reading researcher Keith Stanovich dubbed this structural advantage in language and knowledge the «Matthew Effect,» from the biblical
passage in the
Gospel of Matthew about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
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