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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #100 on: December 06, 2007, 10:25:10 pm »
Quote from: wdj on December 06, 2007, 08:04:48 pm
He mentions Anne Hutchinson, 17th century Massachusetts feminist and home Bible study leader.     ;)

She is listed as an ancestor of FDR, Marilyn Monroe, George Bush, Charles Manson, and Mitt Romney.

Did he mentioned that she was banished from Massachusetts basically for her Antinomian beliefs? She first settled in Rhode Island. She was eventually killed by Indians in New York.
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #101 on: December 07, 2007, 04:52:51 pm »
Today's chapter gets into some unpleasantness.  :P

We are told that at a local parish school in England named for St. John the Baptist, the principal answers the phone:

Hello, this is the head of St John the Baptist speaking.

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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #102 on: December 07, 2007, 05:00:49 pm »
Quote from: wdj on December 07, 2007, 04:52:51 pm
Today's chapter gets into some unpleasantness.  :P

We are told that at a local parish school in England named for St. John the Baptist, the principal answers the phone:

Hello, this is the head of St John the Baptist speaking.


I wonder if he answers from a platter?  ;D
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #103 on: December 07, 2007, 06:31:15 pm »
  Eww!   :P  Yeah I reckon!
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #104 on: December 07, 2007, 06:51:51 pm »
So, in today's episode, Mark 6, Jesus goes to his hometown of Nazareth.  But they are not as impressed with him as everybody else has been.

-- Where did this man get these things?" they asked... "Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

Jesus then send the 12 apostles out in pairs to all the villages in the area to heal and cast out demons.
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #105 on: December 07, 2007, 06:59:53 pm »
Mark then switches over to the beheading of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas.  John the Baptist had criticized Herod for marrying his brother's (former?) wife. According to Mark, Herod at first took it in stride because the people revered John. But Herod's wife got annoyed and had John beheaded.

This is said to be the head of John the Baptist ...    :-\

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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #106 on: December 07, 2007, 07:08:25 pm »
When word of Jesus got around, Mark tells us Herod said "John, the man I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!"

So thoughts about raising from the dead seem to have been prevalent.
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #107 on: December 07, 2007, 07:24:28 pm »
Jesus teaches a large crowd. But at the end of the day, everybody is hungry and among 5,000 people the only food they can find is five loaves and two fish.

Jesus has them sit down on the "green grass" in groups of 50 to 100, and shares the bread and fish. When they have finished passing it around, all 5,000 ate their fill and they collected twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.

Later on in Chapter 8, Jesus asks the disciples to remember how many baskets were left. Some say the numerological significance is that there was enough left for the 12 tribes of Israel. And perhaps the 5 loaves and 5 thousand was a reference to the 5 books of Moses?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_the_multitude
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #108 on: December 07, 2007, 07:32:30 pm »
Then Jesus sent them out by boat again on Lake Galilee, while he walked alone on a mountain.

"During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. "

In the "fourth watch" - the last quarter of the night - Jesus saw from the mountain that their boat was struggling against the wind. He walked down to them, and didn't stop at the water's edge.
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Re: Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
« Reply #109 on: December 07, 2007, 07:43:57 pm »
Well they could be related, it kindley favors Jesus a little.
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