Word: alling
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In lieu of inventing a whole life of Jesus, I'll choose a few pregnant situations: the first from Matthew and Luke, the others largely from Mark--and then I'll examine them imaginatively but responsibly, adding a few glancing notes on my sources. It is, after all, a process...
So the boy grew up--she called him Yeshu from his full name, Yeshua--in the same narrow town: one narrow lane, two rows of rock houses, sealed with mud and roofed with branches daubed with mud, and each house full of the mouths he could hear saying "Bastard, Miriam...
Jesus laughed--Peter's bluntness was a general source of laughter--and then he took a long wait to think. Finally, with his right hand, Jesus reached out and traced a plumb, straight line, perpendicular to the sky. Then he said, "Those 40 days I spent alone, starving by the...
The question about all three Gospel reports of Jesus' agony in the garden is this: If the disciples fell asleep, who heard and remembered Jesus' terrible prayer? My guess is only one of several practical possibilities. --R.P.
More than once John started to stand and go to him--whoever this despairing demon was, John could at least try the things he'd learned about demon expulsion. But then he'd catch a new glimpse of the face, and he'd stay where he was. Maybe this was...