Re: Warning, off-topic Jesus stuff

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

> As for violating the sabbath and that sort of thing - You have to
> remember that Jesus had a great respect for the Law.

To a point.  It is intriguing that, when he cast the moneychangers out of
the temple, Jesus is reputed to have quoted a passage from Isaiah that
basically contradicts a passage in Deuteronomy, concerning the need to
keep foreigners and eunuchs out of the assembly of Israel.

> Once again, his purpose there was to meet some greater need in someone
> or a group of people.  This gave him the opportunity to then teach that
> the Sabbath was made for man, not the other way around.  

And what an extraordinarily subversive statement that is!  One wonders if
it would have made any sense to Moses, who once executed a man for
gathering firewood on the Sabbath, as per Numbers 15:32-36.

> > . . . the Johannian gospel implies that he had a fair number of
> > wealthy friends.

So do the Synoptics, in their own way.  Luke 8:3 tells us that one of the
women who supported Jesus was the wife of the manager of Herod's
household, for example.  That suggests a connection to the aristocracy.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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