89 chapter project: Matthew
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Summary: Matthew 15: 1 - 39
1. The scribes & Pharisees ask why the disciples do not wash their hands when they eat bread. In turn, Jesus asks why they put their tradition above God's commandment to "Honor your mother and your father". As the dispute continues, Jesus states, "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth." (15:11 NKJ) Those things which come out of the mouth are said to come from the heart. . . evil thoughts, false witness, etc.
2. Jesus is approached by a Gentile woman seeking help for her demon-possessed daughter. Initially he refuses, saying he has come only for the lost tribes of Israel but he later relents. He admires her faith and heals the daughter.
3. Jesus heals great multitudes.
4. Four thousand men (not including women and children) are fed from seven loaves and a few fish. Seven large baskets of fragments are left.
1. The scribes & Pharisees ask why the disciples do not wash their hands when they eat bread. In turn, Jesus asks why they put their tradition above God's commandment to "Honor your mother and your father". As the dispute continues, Jesus states, "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth." (15:11 NKJ) Those things which come out of the mouth are said to come from the heart. . . evil thoughts, false witness, etc.
2. Jesus is approached by a Gentile woman seeking help for her demon-possessed daughter. Initially he refuses, saying he has come only for the lost tribes of Israel but he later relents. He admires her faith and heals the daughter.
3. Jesus heals great multitudes.
4. Four thousand men (not including women and children) are fed from seven loaves and a few fish. Seven large baskets of fragments are left.
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Reflection: Matthew 15: 1 - 39
The Pharisees are accused of giving to the Temple instead of assisting their mothers and fathers, thus violating one of God's commandments. Jesus calls them Hypocrites and says that Isaiah prophesied about this. He advises the disciples to leave them alone as they are the blind leading the blind.
Jesus is certainly not suggesting that God's commandments be abandoned. But the passage reads as though he is disputing the Jewish dietary laws. Is he suggesting these are no longer necessary?
We see his ministry expanding to the Gentiles. Is this a turning point in his own growth and understanding?
The Pharisees are accused of giving to the Temple instead of assisting their mothers and fathers, thus violating one of God's commandments. Jesus calls them Hypocrites and says that Isaiah prophesied about this. He advises the disciples to leave them alone as they are the blind leading the blind.
Jesus is certainly not suggesting that God's commandments be abandoned. But the passage reads as though he is disputing the Jewish dietary laws. Is he suggesting these are no longer necessary?
We see his ministry expanding to the Gentiles. Is this a turning point in his own growth and understanding?
Sounds like a great sector of society cannot win under the law as SET down ... if fluid it can be more gentile pool ... bottomless so you don;t fall to hard when drifting off ...
Stoics don't adhere to alternate aspirations! Thus mongering in varied conflicts 've dark zones ... a niche of a different hue?
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Paradox3 ----your quote -------Jesus is certainly not suggesting that God's commandments be abandoned. But the passage reads as though he is disputing the Jewish dietary laws. Is he suggesting these are no longer necessary?
Can you give the verses that you are referring to here -----I don't see in Matthew 15 where this is said ------about the dietary laws ----can you explain a little as to what you mean here ----- thanks
Can you give the verses that you are referring to here -----I don't see in Matthew 15 where this is said ------about the dietary laws ----can you explain a little as to what you mean here ----- thanks
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Hi unsafe, here is where I thought Jesus must have been talking about the Jewish dietary laws:
"Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." (Matthew 15:11NKJ)
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matthew 15:17-19 NKJ)
It seems to me that Jesus is suggesting a higher standard than eating the right foods with clean hands.
What do you think? I am very interested in other interpretations of these verses.
Possibly a brighter person speaking of broad-based explete* coming from one who had got it in grasp ... then it fell out of grip!
* explete is a different form of expletive like eur IHCa, or Ochman ... and then the weaker heals were hung up on it ... Hall eLo Jah will do ... thus gestures in the silence of long dark knights ... headless functions! Restful voids ... not always byzantine ...
Bureaucratic SIC?
* explete is a different form of expletive like eur IHCa, or Ochman ... and then the weaker heals were hung up on it ... Hall eLo Jah will do ... thus gestures in the silence of long dark knights ... headless functions! Restful voids ... not always byzantine ...
Bureaucratic SIC?
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Summary: Matthew 16: 1 - 28
1. The Pharisees and Sadducees test Jesus, asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He responds that no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
2. Jesus warns the disciples to beware of the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
3. Jesus asks his disciples who they say he is. Simon Peter responds, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." (16:16 NKJ). Jesus says he will build his church on the rock that is Peter.
4. Jesus predicts his journey to Jerusalem and his death. When Peter rebukes him, Jesus says, "Get behind me, Satan!" (16: 23 NKJ).
5. Jesus tells the disciples that if they wish to follow him, they must take up their cross. The Son of Man will come in glory and reward each according to his works.
1. The Pharisees and Sadducees test Jesus, asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He responds that no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
2. Jesus warns the disciples to beware of the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
3. Jesus asks his disciples who they say he is. Simon Peter responds, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God." (16:16 NKJ). Jesus says he will build his church on the rock that is Peter.
4. Jesus predicts his journey to Jerusalem and his death. When Peter rebukes him, Jesus says, "Get behind me, Satan!" (16: 23 NKJ).
5. Jesus tells the disciples that if they wish to follow him, they must take up their cross. The Son of Man will come in glory and reward each according to his works.
Sign of Joan awe ... Wahl of a myth as coming from ... we know not where! Dark words as a smear are rejected by powers as lie and not virtually carrying on ... S ET Ire ...
Moors to be examined ... hound san all ... bewitching nothing's as a gap in the thought process? God and love are like that ... when all have lost something or alternate ... constructive of songs about lost loves ... and it is rumoured that God Gave the Song ...
I accept that I know little compared to claims made by the greatest powers ... thus hum Blink?
Back to the realm of abstract and yet unseen ... twilight etudes?
Could it be grey matter? So many buried and burned myths to admire as bitter-swett ... myrrh 'd ere .. as word put down ... iconoclast alien stuff?
Did you know that iconoclast is about destruction that breaks something up?
Tis the goal of men wishing to stand all alone ... they can't moderate ... absence of bare Illyum?
Some Lexus state that illyum is something you like so much it sickens ... sic X may be like that when taken out of season ... ecclesia sticks?
Kirk in the hole ... or church in the wildwood? Burled hives ...
Moors to be examined ... hound san all ... bewitching nothing's as a gap in the thought process? God and love are like that ... when all have lost something or alternate ... constructive of songs about lost loves ... and it is rumoured that God Gave the Song ...
I accept that I know little compared to claims made by the greatest powers ... thus hum Blink?
Back to the realm of abstract and yet unseen ... twilight etudes?
Could it be grey matter? So many buried and burned myths to admire as bitter-swett ... myrrh 'd ere .. as word put down ... iconoclast alien stuff?
Did you know that iconoclast is about destruction that breaks something up?
Tis the goal of men wishing to stand all alone ... they can't moderate ... absence of bare Illyum?
Some Lexus state that illyum is something you like so much it sickens ... sic X may be like that when taken out of season ... ecclesia sticks?
Kirk in the hole ... or church in the wildwood? Burled hives ...
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Reflection: Matthew 16: 1 - 28
Jesus remarks that the Pharisees and Sadducees know how to read the sky, saying it will be fair weather when the sky is red in the evening. And foul weather when the sky is red in the morning. We know this as "red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." Interesting to think that human beings were aware of this phenomenon in biblical times!
As in previous chapters, this seems to be an apocalyptic Jesus preaching about end times.
There are other things here to contemplate. The meaning of bread and leaven, for example. "How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? - but you should be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." (16:11 NKJ).
It is also mentioned that the disciples brought no bread with them and Jesus reminds them of the 5 loaves of the 5000 and the 7 loaves of the 4000. He asks, "Do you not yet understand this or remember?"
Jesus remarks that the Pharisees and Sadducees know how to read the sky, saying it will be fair weather when the sky is red in the evening. And foul weather when the sky is red in the morning. We know this as "red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." Interesting to think that human beings were aware of this phenomenon in biblical times!
As in previous chapters, this seems to be an apocalyptic Jesus preaching about end times.
There are other things here to contemplate. The meaning of bread and leaven, for example. "How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? - but you should be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." (16:11 NKJ).
It is also mentioned that the disciples brought no bread with them and Jesus reminds them of the 5 loaves of the 5000 and the 7 loaves of the 4000. He asks, "Do you not yet understand this or remember?"
In the case of leaven it alone it won't rise to examination ... an Eris turn of events ...
If you lived in a time where conception was an unknown ... this persists ...
Read my lips? The expression becomes almost libelous when the attention of liperous fringes is not attended to adequately with conditions of intelligents ...
Stunning outcomes if moderate in numbers ... 2.6 per familias ... some believe overcoming with nominalism ... beware of the unknown! Ideas don;t easily take hold without a hook Eire in the myth ...
Thus precarious descents ...
If you lived in a time where conception was an unknown ... this persists ...
Read my lips? The expression becomes almost libelous when the attention of liperous fringes is not attended to adequately with conditions of intelligents ...
Stunning outcomes if moderate in numbers ... 2.6 per familias ... some believe overcoming with nominalism ... beware of the unknown! Ideas don;t easily take hold without a hook Eire in the myth ...
Thus precarious descents ...
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You might be on to something, here, Luce.
Don't look Alice ... thus confinement or internalization of the story of sic ... head diversions?
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paradox3 ----the scripture says --------Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matthew 15:17-19 NKJ)
verses 8 and 9 give you the answer parradox3 -----it has nothing to do with dietary foods ------the Bible is a Spiritual Book and what He is speaking of here pertains to unseen Food ------we have 3 gates in which we can be defiled ----our ear gate ---eye gate and mouth gate -----what you take in you will speak out from the heart ------what you take into your heart you will speak out -----
This is the problem with trying to read the Scripture being a Natural nan---woman ------ the Holy Spirit guides the Spiritual ------
verses 8 and 9 give you the answer parradox3 -----it has nothing to do with dietary foods ------the Bible is a Spiritual Book and what He is speaking of here pertains to unseen Food ------we have 3 gates in which we can be defiled ----our ear gate ---eye gate and mouth gate -----what you take in you will speak out from the heart ------what you take into your heart you will speak out -----
This is the problem with trying to read the Scripture being a Natural nan---woman ------ the Holy Spirit guides the Spiritual ------
Follow de Hart ... watch if for eire that stings ... some WASPy tail ... back off and watch from distance to see what entangled passions can do to am'n ... it all passes ... Tao of Po ... chicken tongues ... no teeth! Some one said have no fear but other's fear everything ... especially the hole thing nominalized as god without understanding ... brusque and brutal!
Ironic poetry from Lucrece is best ... De Re Rheum ... whaaa .. read a poem by a woman that was supposed to be illiterate? Such is the prosaic ...
Love of nothing is like that drains am an ... sucked rites? Blown explicites ...
Ironic poetry from Lucrece is best ... De Re Rheum ... whaaa .. read a poem by a woman that was supposed to be illiterate? Such is the prosaic ...
Love of nothing is like that drains am an ... sucked rites? Blown explicites ...
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Hi unsafe, yes, I agree that verses 8 and 9 are not talking about dietary foods. These verses represent a prophecy from Isaiah and Jesus is addressing the Pharisees whom He has called hypocrites. The verses point out a disconnect between what a person says and what is in that person's heart.
Verse 17 could still be about dietary laws, however. What is taken through the mouth, goes through the stomach and then gets eliminated certainly sounds like actual food to me.
Unless of course, Jesus is speaking in parable again which is always possible. I hear what you are saying about unseen food.