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The Twist family studies the Gospel of John
Wayne:
The rest of the chapter is a dialogue between Jesus and the Pharisees, valuable but dense material.
Perhaps ironically, it ends with evidence that the Pharisees learned nothing from the opening episode. They don't like what Jesus says, so they take up stones to cast at him. ::)
Buncha violent freaks if you ask me. People like that have no business claiming to speak for God. :P
Wayne:
There are a good many nuggets in between the threatened stonings. My favorite is
If you continue in my word, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
To follow the example of Jesus is to search for the truth and to find freedom in the truth.
This is a way different message from today's stereotypical preacher, who seems to be saying something more like "God told me a secret that I'm not going to divulge to you but if you send me your money I'll see if I can buy you some time. Oh and the bottom line is God Hates Fags."
They add in that last line because that's the one thing that always gets people to send them money.
Today's fag is A.D. 30's adulteress. And today's tele-evangelists are the Pharisees whose daily pleasure is to throw rocks at people to kill them.
Wayne:
There is a curious line in verse 48: Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan?
At first I thought this was an ethnic slur. But Jesus was from Galilee, a small Jewish territory on the other side of Samaria. Maybe their point was that Jesus was being too accommodating of other ways of thinking that open the mind to a common-sense approach to life.
So yeah then the religious bosses pick up stones to throw at him. Nice guys. :P
That's one thing that is still the same 2,000 years later.
Wayne:
One more thing about the scene of the Pharisees threatening to stone the woman ... where was the man she was found with ?!? ??? >:( Typical. ::)
Wayne:
In chapter 9, Jesus gives sight to a man who had been blind from birth. But --- he did it on the Sabbath!! :o ::)
Jesus spat in the dirt, mixed up the mud and put it on the blind man's eyes. He told him to go and wash at the pool of Siloam (which means "Sent" or "Sending")
The pool of Siloam has recently been uncovered in an archeological dig near Jerusalem in 2005. Here are some pix! :D
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