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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

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  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

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  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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- In Mark 6:45-52, there is a storm, the disciples are on a boat and Jesus comes to them walking on the sea!

- The disciples think it is an apparition!

- They can’t believe it!

- Then Jesus speaks to them!

- And they are amazed!

- But they shouldn’t!

- After seeing so many miracles from Jesus, they should know that nothing is impossible for Jesus!

- But they are men meaning they are limited!

- What about us?
 

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- First I don't teach people!

- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!

- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!

- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!

- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!

- It is necessary to check!

- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!

- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!

- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!

- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!

- Or important facts which must be remembered!


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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!

____________________________________________________________
  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

_______________________________________________________

  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • Mark was also called John Mark!
  • His mother’s house was used as a place for believers to gather and pray!
  • He was a companion of Barnabas and Paul during their travels together!
  • Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement about Mark!
  • They separated, Paul took Silas and barnabas Mark!
  • But Mark matured with time!

____________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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- In Mark 6:53-56, when Jesus arrives at Gennesaret, it spreads like a fire and everyone arrives where Jesus is!

- And they bring people to be cured!

- And they just need to touch him to be cured!

- It must have been completely crazy!

- And Jesus keeps on curing people!


- Again and again!

- Jesus never complains!
 
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  • Pharisees and scribes argue with Jesus!
  • They say Jesus’ disciples don’t respect man’s traditions!
  • Jesus answers them calling them hypocrites saying that Isaiah prophesied about them saying:
  • Mark 7:6: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me!
  • Mark 7:7: They worship me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men!
  • Mark 7:8: You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men!
 

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Mark 7:13


[Thus] you nullify

ἀκυροῦντες (akyrountes)

Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural

Strong's 208: To annul, make of no effect, cancel. To invalidate.


the

τὸν (ton)

Article - Accusative Masculine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


word

λόγον (logon)

Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular

Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.


of God

Θεοῦ (Theou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


by

τῇ (tē)

Article - Dative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


[the]

ὑμῶν (hymōn)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural

Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


tradition

παραδόσει (paradosei)

Noun - Dative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3862: An instruction, tradition. From paradidomi; transmission, i.e. a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law.


you have handed down.

  • Religious leaders oppose Yah.weh’s commandment and word because of man’s tradition they keep transmitting through CORRUPTION!
  • We must make a choice!
  • Do we want to follow Yah.weh’s commandment and word?
  • Or do we want to follow man’s tradition!
  • Man’s tradition is a dead end!
 

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Mark 7


  • Man’s tradition vs Yah.weh’s word!
  • Hypocrisy vs faithfulness!
  • Rejecting yah.weh’s commandment!
  • They make Yah.weh’s word invalid!
  • Sexual immorality!
  • Theft!
  • Murder!
  • Adultery!
  • Greed!
  • Wickedness!
  • Deceit!
  • Debauchery!
  • Envy!
  • Slander!
  • Arrogance!
  • Foolishness!
 

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Mark 8


  • Pity for the crowd!
  • Jesus feeds them!
  • The number doesn’t matter!
  • Jesus cures A blind man!
  • He must do it twice!
  • PRECISION!
  • FOLLOWING JESUS MEANS BEING READY FOR ANYTHING!
  • THIS IS THE PRICE FOR ETERNAL LIFE!
  • EVERYTHING HAS A COST!
 

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Mark 9

  • Jesus must cure a boy who is possessed because his disciples can’t do it!
  • He tells his disciples that he must die and be resurrected!
  • But they don’t understand him!
  • Later his disciples argue about who is the greater among them!
  • So Jesus must explain to them again it can’t be so!
  • Hard work for Jesus indeed!
  • But he knew he would have a lot to do with them!
 

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Mark 10

  • Pharisees always try to test Jesus!
  • This time it is about divorcing his wife!
  • Jesus explains to them that Moses gave the possibility to divorce their wives because of their hardheartedness!
  • But then he reminds them how it was from the beginning of creation according to Yah.weh!
  • So he tells them that divorcing his wife is a sin!
  • It is not possible to be clearer!
  • When someone calls him a good teacher, he answers by saying only God is good!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
  • And he tells the man to sell everything and follow him and participate in his activity!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
  • Then James and John want Jesus to grant them to sit at his right and at hit in his kingdom!
  • But Jesus tells them it doesn't belong to him to give such a privilege!
  • Once again, it is not possible to be clearer!
 

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Mark 10

  • Jesus says it will be difficult for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!
  • Jesus tells the rich man to sell what he has and follow him!
  • Many watch sports on TV instead of doing them!
  • It is more comfortable to sit in an armchair!
  • Is it the way you think to follow Jesus?
  • Remember Job: he lost everything but his life and because of his faithfulness he received the double!
 

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Mark 11


  • Jesus curses a fig tree on his way to Jerusalem because he is hungry and the fig tree has no fruit because it is not the season!
  • Some would say: what a strange behavior!
  • Others would think he is in a special mood because of what is coming!
  • Then Jesus cleanses the temple with violence!
  • Some would say: what a strange behavior!
  • Others would think he is in a special mood because of what is coming!
  • And it is his Father’s house!
  • Then he speaks about a den of robbers instead of a house of prayer!
  • Think about Jesus’ attitude when he comes back to cleanse the earth!
  • Will he say a den of robbers speaking about the earth?
  • Then think about Peter’s attitude when he sees what has happened to the fig tree cursed by Jesus!
  • How many behave the same way today?
  • How do you want them to understand the Bible?
  • They will never understand the Bible if they don’t change their attitude!
 

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Mark 12

- Jesus used to speak to the crowds with parables!

- It is like a 3D picture!

- it is like nature!

- We can see it!

- We can hear it!

- We can smell it!

- We can taste it!

- We can touch it!

- in fact, when we read the books of the prophets, we get the same!

- Yah.weh uses 3D pictures to condemn Israel!

- And people still don’t understand!

- We get 3D warnings!


- And people still don’t understand!

- Because they don’t want to understand!

- But when Yah.weh’s kingdom comes, Jesus will act according to our real attitudes!

- And there won’t be any excuses!
 

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Mark 12

- On the one hand, there is Jesus who speaks with parables and gives plenty of details!

- On the other hand, there are the religious leaders who can compete with him so they send men to catch him in his words!

- On the one hand, we get power, on the other hand, we get emptiness!

- Why should we choose emptiness instead of power?
 

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Mark 12

- Here Jesus must answer Pharisees and then sadducees!

- They always invent dead end stories!

- But Jesus keeps answering them again and again with patience despite their stupidity!

- Then he finally says in verse 24:

Jesus

Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)

Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular

Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.


said

Ἔφη (Ephē)

Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular

Strong's 5346: To say, declare. Properly, the same as the base of phos and phaino; to show or make known one's thoughts, i.e. Speak or say.


to them,

αὐτοῖς (autois)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural

Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


“Aren’t you mistaken

πλανᾶσθε (planasthe)

Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural

Strong's 4105: To lead astray, deceive, cause to wander. From plane; to roam.


because

διὰ (dia)

Preposition

Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.


you do not know

εἰδότες (eidotes)

Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural

Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.


the

τὰς (tas)

Article - Accusative Feminine Plural

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


Scriptures

γραφὰς (graphas)

Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural

Strong's 1124: (a) a writing, (b) a passage of scripture; plur: the scriptures. A document, i.e. Holy Writ.


[or]

μηδὲ (mēde)

Conjunction

Strong's 3366: And not, not even, neither�nor. From me and de; but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor.


the

τὴν (tēn)

Article - Accusative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


power

δύναμιν (dynamin)

Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular

Strong's 1411: From dunamai; force; specially, miraculous power.


of God?

Θεοῦ (Theou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

  • Thus he first answers them!
  • Then he shows them how stupid they are!
  • Because of their attitude!
  • They think they know everything when they know nothing!
 

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Mark 2: Jesus forgives the sins of a paralytic. Some scribes think he is blaspheming because God is the only one who can forgive. Knowing what they think, Jesus asks them why they think so and he asks what is easier to cure the paralytic or to forgive his sins. And the paralytic gets up and walks and they glorify
Stymied by the crowd at Jesus' feet, friends create a huge whole in the roof to lower toe paralytic to Jesus' feet. Jesus' praiuses their faith. But what about the homeowner's complaint, "Hey, whose gonna pay for the damage to my roof?"
I'm looking for Jesus' response, but it's not recorded.



























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Stymied by the crowd at Jesus' feet, friends create a huge whole in the roof to lower toe paralytic to Jesus' feet. Jesus' praiuses their faith. But what about the homeowner's complaint, "Hey, whose gonna pay for the damage to my roof?"
I'm looking for Jesus' response, but it's not recorded.



























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Jesus healed a paralytic man in Capernaum. The four men made a hole in the roof through which they lowered the paralysed man: (MAT 9:2); MRK 2:4; LUK 5:19.

The area to the north of the Sea of Galilee, including Capernaum and Chorazin, is covered by black layers of volcanic rock. As timber was scarce, buildings were made of basalt stone. To create large rooms, arches were built into the room. Long basalt beams were placed on top of these walls at approximately 60cm intervals. In case the space between these walls is too large to place beams across, corbels were placed on top of the walls to shorten the distance. Thinner slabs were placed on these beams to create a ceiling, which was covered with a layer of plaster. Rollers were used to compact the plaster to make it waterproof.

To make a hole in the roof, the plaster was scraped off and some of the thinner slabs removed, until a space was made large enough through which to lower the paralytic man.
 

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PARALYTIC LOWERED THROUGH A ROOF AT CAPERNAUM


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This photo is of a restored Talmudic era village modeled on the ruins of a fourth - eighth century village at Qatzrin in the Golan Heights. Similar basalt construction was found in the ruins of Capernaum during the time of Jesus.


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2005


The unhewn logs were used as rafters with branches and saplings as cross support. The top was overlain with tightly packed clay. Terracotta roof tiles were not known in rural Galilean villages during the first century AD, but were known in the region during Byzantine times.


From Capernaum National Park I was able to look to the east and see the saddle shaped ridge that Gamala was built upon. At Gamala destroyed during the Jewish-Roman War 64 - 70 A.D. by the Romans; plaster was used on the roofs of the finer homes instead of clay. There were no clay tile roofs seen at Gamala.


The Gospel writer Luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof. It has been suggested the Greek for clay tile might have also meant packed clay. Many roofs of the Galilean villages were overlain with packed clay. As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in Tiberias were of packed clay. Reports of clay leaking during heavy rains were commonplace. Sometimes grass sprouted from peoples rooftops. Luke or a later copyist might have been from a village with clay tile roofs and recorded the roof as clay tile out of a bias of thinking roofs were made of tile.


Luke 5:19 And not finding by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his couch into the midst before Jesus.


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Flat topped roof of timber and branches overlain by packed clay with clay pigeon house on edge of wall.


Mark 2 (WEB) When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 2 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. 5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” 6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone? 8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’ 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” —he said to the paralytic— 11 “I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.” 12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”


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2003


A view from the white synagogue at Capernaum towards the lake. These are the ruins from the first few centuries AD. The houses were built of basalt igneous stone same as at the Talmudic era village discussed above.


Parable of the Mustard Seed
 

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Jesus healed a paralytic man in Capernaum. The four men made a hole in the roof through which they lowered the paralysed man: (MAT 9:2); MRK 2:4; LUK 5:19.

The area to the north of the Sea of Galilee, including Capernaum and Chorazin, is covered by black layers of volcanic rock. As timber was scarce, buildings were made of basalt stone. To create large rooms, arches were built into the room. Long basalt beams were placed on top of these walls at approximately 60cm intervals. In case the space between these walls is too large to place beams across, corbels were placed on top of the walls to shorten the distance. Thinner slabs were placed on these beams to create a ceiling, which was covered with a layer of plaster. Rollers were used to compact the plaster to make it waterproof.

To make a hole in the roof, the plaster was scraped off and some of the thinner slabs removed, until a space was made large enough through which to lower the paralytic man.
Still a lot of hassle and expense to repair it! Just sayin.'
 

JLG

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Still a lot of hassle and expense to repair it! Just sayin.'
- They only had their hands!
- it's difficult to think they destroy a lot!
- if it was too difficult, they couldn't have done anything!
- Or it was cardboard!