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The Twist family studies the Gospel of John
Wayne:
The chief priests and the Pharisees send the temple guards to arrest Jesus, but the guards come back empty-handed, saying "No one ever spoke the way this man does."
See I probably would have been like that, all, "wow - here we are 4,000 years after the creation of the earth and finally somebody is talking about using common sense and being kind and searching for truth instead of following a bunch of rules that nobody understands and that nobody could possibly follow."
Wayne:
So Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was a Pharisee himself, asked, "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?"
Innocent until proven guilty!
But the rest of the authorities said "go read your Bible and you will see that no prophet is predicted to emerge from Galilee. The Christ is to come from Bethlehem. Jesus is from Galilee, not Bethlehem, therefore he cannot be the Christ."
Wayne:
John chapter 8 includes one of my favorite verses in the Bible. A good candidate for very favorite... :)
Wayne:
Chapter 8 starts with a very familiar story, the woman caught in adultery who has been sentenced to stoning.
I was surprised to learn that this story (verses 1-11) was not included in the earliest and most authoritative manuscripts of the gospel of John.
Anyhow, the scribes and Pharisees put Jesus to the test by presenting this woman to him and asking what they should do. He stoops down and writes on the ground a bit (so he could write, at least a little). He stands up and says "whoever is without sin should cast the first stone."
The poor Pharisees are foiled again!! :o >:( :P :P :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
(cue a Little Rascals laughing audience ... ha ha! )
Wayne:
We might wonder what he was writing ... we don't know for sure.
Maybe occasions when the would-be stoners themselves "missed the mark" - the literal translation of "sin."
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