How much was one mite worth?
Mark 12:42
The poor widow gave God all that she had left – one mite. The mite she gave to God was worth 1/64th of a day’s wages.
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The Samaritan woman at the well had lived with five men not her husband and the current one was not. And she was an outcast since she went to the well at noon (Jewish time) or 5:00 PM (Roman time) and everyone always got their day’s supply of water in the morning.
John 4:15-18 – John 4:39-42
No! This woman had gone through the agony of being widowed five times! Could you? True, her sixth was not her husband, but she had been married to the others and lost them probably in tragedies of diseases and accidents and maybe even war.
She was respected in the city. When she told them about Jesus, she influenced the whole city to stop what they were doing, go down to Jesus and hear him.
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How could Nathaniel possibly know instantly that Jesus was the Son of God?
John 1:48-50
Jesus had seen Nathaniel “long distance”.
Whatever the unexpected reason that Nathaniel was in that orchard, Jesus saw him there when he thought he was alone.
The day before, Jesus had spent the day explaining things to Andrew and Philip over in Bethany where John was baptizing. Jesus had seen Nathaniel long distance. Only God can do that.
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When Andrew went to tell his brother, Peter, he had found the promised Messiah, they were at home in a northern province and their city of Bethsaida, along the Sea of Galilee.
John 1:28 – John 1:40-43 – John 2:1
No! John was preaching and baptizing in Bethany in the southern province of Judea. Philip and Nathaniel were down there too. Andrew and Peter may have been down there lining up merchants for their fishing business. Bethany was 95 miles from Cana. They arrived in Cana of Galilee after traveling three days. Cana was only 12 miles from Bethsaida.
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Demon possession has always existed and is as common today as it was during Bible times.
Matthew 4:24 – Matthew 9:32 – Matthew 10:1 – Matthew 12:22 – Matthew 17:18 – Mark 5:1-20 – Luke 4:33-36 – Luke 10:17 – Acts 6:16-18
No! Examine the Bible. God allowed demons to reveal themselves only during the lifetime of Jesus and his apostles. Demons having access to our world ceased when Jesus finished proving to the world his power over them.
Notice, he did not do exorcisms and beg them to come out. They were afraid of him. He ordered them. He commanded them. He never begged them.
There is no mention of demon possession in the Christian writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries – “Apostolic Fathers” or “Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History.”
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Everyone has to walk through the valley of the shadow of death upon their death.
Psalm 23:4 – Matthew 4:16
No! For the Christian, light has come to the shadow of death! It is neither shadow nor death.
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During Jesus early days preaching, he was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee and saw Peter and Andrew, who he had only met briefly where John the Baptist preached. But. when he told them to follow him, it was amazing that they dropped everything and did.
Matthew 4:13 and 18-20 – John 1:44 – Luke 5:10
No! Peter and Andrew lived in Bethsaida, just two miles from Capernaum.. By then, Jesus had moved from Nazareth to Capernaum. James and John (who were related to Jesus) were Peter’s and Andrew’s fishing partners. Jesus had probably already known Peter and Andrew for years.
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