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The man carrying a pitcher of water who showed the apostles the upper room for Jesus’ last supper could have been a Gibeonite.
Mark 14:12-16 – Joshua 9:1-27
1400 years earlier when Joshua was punishing the earlier people of the “promised land” for worshipping idols and practicing human sacrifice, Amorite tribesman (the Gibeonites) fooled him, so instead of being killed, were made water carrier slaves.
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Mark 14:10-11 – John 6:64
No! Jesus never fully believed in Jesus and who he was. Look it up.
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Mark 14:3 & 5
At that time in Jewish history, anointing with oil was done to make a person either the high priest or the king. Both titles had equal powers. It was the same as crowning someone king. A single flask of the special oil Mary used to anoint Jesus with the week before his crucifixion and death was worth a year’s wages!
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Mark 1:9-11 – Matthew 3:16-17 – John 1:12-13 – Acts 2:38 – Galatians 4:5 – Ephesians 1:5 – Hebrew 1:10 & 13
Ever since then, when we do what Jesus did that day, the same thing happens to us. When we come up out of the waters of baptism, the Holy Spirit descends on us, announces we are now his sons, and tells us how proud he is of us. We are not begotten sons as Jesus was because he was the materialized Word of God and there can be only one Word of God. But we are adopted sons, adopted children of the King of the Universe.
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Mark 12:38-40
“A large crowd was gladly listening to Jesus. 38As he was teaching, he said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law! They want to walk around wearing clothes which make them look important. They like the greetings of respect which people give them in the marketplaces. 39They always want the most important seats in the synagogues and the best seats at the dinners. 40But, they are unfair to widows; they steal their homes. Then they make themselves look good by saying long prayers. Because of all this, God will punish these men so much more.”
SO, it looks like there will be degrees of punishment in eternity.
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Mark 12:42
The widow’s mite she gave to God was worth 1/64th of one day’s wage. She gave more than the rich people because she gave all she had.
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Matthew 27:29
No! First, it is nearly impossible to fold a branch in a perfect circle. Second, it was spring, not winter. There were leaves on the bushes and flowers.
A crown of thorns with just leaves on it would be a mock Julius Caesar crown.
A crown of thorns with flowers on it would be a mock Olympic winner’s crown.
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Matthew 28:20
Well, not quite. What was translated as, “I will be with you until the end of the age,” the word age comes from a Greek word meaning eternity. What he actually said was “I WILL BE WITH YOU TO THE END OF ETERNITY!”
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Matthew 26:3-4 – John 11:47-53 – John 18:24-26 – Acts 4:1-6; 5:17
No! Caiaphas was son-in-law to Annas, the former high priest and was brother-in-law to Annas’ two sons. They did not believe any of the prophets (which makes up most of the Old Testament). They were all Sadducees. They believed only in the Law of Moses and used it in a secular sense, not religious, because they believed once a person died, they go out of existence.
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Matthew 25:31-34 – Exodus 121-29 – Leviticus 16:1-4
Under the Law of Moses the Jews kept an annual feast called the Passover. It was a memorial of the time when God threatened the Jews and Egyptians that he would destroy the first born of every family for their sins. But, if they put the blood of a sheep on their doorpost, God would Pass Over them and they would live. The blood did not erase their sins, but hid their sins.
Also under the Law of Moses was an annual ritual on the Day of Atonement when the high priest would put his hands on a goat and symbolically transfer the people’s sins onto the scapegoat. Then the goat would be let loose in the wilderness. Again, the sins of the people were not erased but covered over. The word Atonement means to cover.
Centuries later, Jesus said he would judge the world [after dying in our place and saving us by his own blood] and allow the sheep (those who’s sins Jesus had completely forgiven) to be on his right side to enter heaven, while the goats (those who’s sins Jesus had not forgiven) would be on Jesus’ left side to go to hell.
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