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What does this small story tell us about Jesus? Try to discover the central message of this story, and then write it out. Read the stories before and after the text you chose, and write out their main messages.
In Mark 9:19-13, Jesus is being compared and contrasted with Elijah. Elijah is a harbinger of the messiah; not the messiah Himself. Thus, Elijah corresponds symbolically with John the Baptist. The story is one that establishes the true identity of Jesus Christ as Son of Man: a phrase that is used throughout the Bible. Here, the phrase clearly refers to Jesus during the transfiguration.
When the apostles ask, "Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?" Jesus replies, "To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things…Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him," (Mark 9:11-13). Here, a strong connection is drawn between Old Testament prophecy and the coming of Christ. The apostles seem to be asking why Elijah is a necessary messenger, or precursor, to the Christ. Jesus's response is simple: Elijah's...
Jesus has on occasion requested that the apostles "not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead," (Mark 9:9). At this point, the apostles have no idea what Jesus entails. They have to contemplate the wording: rising from the dead. Such a miracle of transfiguration had yet to occur; and thus is seemed completely incomprehensible. The main messages in this passage include the truth and necessity of old prophecy; and how old prophecy serves to prove the existence of Christ as Messiah. The passage also establishes John the Baptist as Elijah, who returned to restore order in Christ and establish the new covenant.
2.What is the Gospel writer trying to say to his readers by the way he puts the smaller stories together? Try to discover what the three stories have in common. Write out a paragraph showing the connections between all three stories
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Bible: New International Version.
Cline, A. (n.d.). Reactions to Jesus' Transfiguration (Mark 9:9-13). Retrieved online: http://atheism.about.com/od/biblegospelofmark/a/mark09b.htm
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life" King James Version ( Exodus 21:22-23) This is an example of an abortion case which is minimal yet needs justice to be served by the civil authorities. In this example, there are four sensitive phrases which needs to be emphasized and interpreted in order to bring out the intensity of this abortion issues, the phrases/sentences are; "If men
This is the Jealous God that Huston carries throughout his film as a representation of Godly power. This view also raises many associated questions; such as the fact that God must also have been the originator of the snake. In this section and in the others that follow it seems that the central impetus in the film is in reality a critique and an indictment of the God of the
..hat in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...by whom also he made the worlds," thus arguing that Jesus' message is an expansion of the Old Covenant. (Ellingworth, 1993). The Catholic interpretation of the Epistle to the Hebrews is that it is a firm announcement of the superiority of the New Testament revelations made by Jesus over the Old Testament revelations made by the lesser prophets. Further, the Epistle
Paul's message in the second half of Chapter 5 seeks to portray to the church in Rome the nature of man's redemption and the sins that lead to the need for such a redemption. It seeks to answer the basic question of how Jesus has changed man's relationship with God, and how man's accountability regarding the nature of sin has changed. Paul describes redemption as a free gift and portrays
Biblical Archaeology - Jericho The story of the attempt to match up the archaeology of ancient Jericho with the account given in the Hebrew Bible has come to be regarded as something of a cautionary tale in the history of Biblical archaeology. Laughlin in Archaeology and the Bible (2000) invokes Jericho in precisely that way, as the most generalized example that he can find to warn against trying to force archaeological
Gospels Greek text a basis. The Bible on Luke Chapter 7: 1-10 Sample Essay Outline ( a guideline, adjust argument) ! short introduction (end statement thesis [, a summary interpretation passage]) ! body (argument support thesis) " summary passage " observations contents passage " observations literary, thematic, historical contexts " summary message original audience " explanation application context ! short conclusion (begin -stating thesis). Jesus' healing of the Centurion's servant The