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If that's the case, then the people of 30 AD were ready for God. In fact, we see a remarkable progression of Old Testament violence from divine to human agency. Whereas, around 600 BC, God dispatched 180,000 Assyrians, in 180 BC the Maccabees had to take down the 80,000 Greeks themselves. Both events were manifestations of God's greatness, but the latter event was in faith in support of man's actions, whereas the earlier event was a show of God's power unto itself. | If that's the case, then the people of 30 AD were ready for God. In fact, we see a remarkable progression of Old Testament violence from divine to human agency. Whereas, around 600 BC, God dispatched 180,000 Assyrians, in 180 BC the Maccabees had to take down the 80,000 Greeks themselves. Both events were manifestations of God's greatness, but the latter event was in faith in support of man's actions, whereas the earlier event was a show of God's power unto itself. | ||
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== FF Feb 21/2025; Three crosses on Calvary == | |||
My RE students went blank when I showed them an image of Calvary with the three crucifixes. Never heard about the thieves. | |||
But it causes contemplation. They were just there by happenstance: God wanted them there, so let's consider why. | |||
* both sinful | |||
* both prideful | |||
* only one repents | |||
* Christ absolves him | |||
>> see : | |||
Parable of the Workers (Mt 20:1-16) | |||
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But that wasn't Jesus' point. If you wait for a tragedy to come together, that's all well and good, but not for the people who died at the wall. Were they ready for God? [[User:Michael Bromley|Michael Bromley]] ([[User talk:Michael Bromley|talk]]) 09:35, 7 February 2025 (EST) | But that wasn't Jesus' point. If you wait for a tragedy to come together, that's all well and good, but not for the people who died at the wall. Were they ready for God? [[User:Michael Bromley|Michael Bromley]] ([[User talk:Michael Bromley|talk]]) 09:35, 7 February 2025 (EST) | ||
== approaching Holy Week == | |||
== Holy Week: Jesus makes it plain == | |||
As we approach Holy Week, we can start considering the events of that week. Several come to mind today, the first two we'll take from Matthew, which our Gospels chronology puts at Monday and Tuesday, and the other from Luke, which we will see is related to it, marked as on Wed or Thurs: [https://biblechronology.net/ChronologyOfTheFourGospels-changes%20from%202019-06-05.pdf Chronology of the Four Gospels] | |||
First, we have the Cleansing of the Temple, which is in all the synoptics (John relates another instance the first year of his Ministry). It's like, ''whaaa''? He comes into the city to Hosannas, then drives out the money changers? What's most remarkable is not that the Sanhedrin didn't arrest him then and there, but that immediately after declaring it a "den of thieves",<blockquote>The blind and the lame approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/21?23 Mt 21:12-15])</blockquote>The "priests and scribes" challenge him, but | |||
From Matthew, we have the Parable of the Tenants, in which Jesus lays it out there plainly. The Pharisees knew they were going to kill him. He knew they were going to kill him, and now they knew that Jesus knew that they were going to kill him. [[User:Michael Bromley|Michael Bromley]] ([[User talk:Michael Bromley|talk]]) 11:23, 21 March 2025 (EDT) | |||