09-23 - LUKE 13 31 to 14 6

paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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31 - Right then some of the Pharisee party came up, and told Jesus, “You should leave here! Herod wants to kill you!” [Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great who had the young boys of Bethlehem killed. Herod Antipas executed John the Baptist, though he didn’t want to but was tricked into it by his wife.] 32 And Jesus said, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.” {BCE, CE, and post CE?} 33 “Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow, and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.” [Herod was a hebrew by birth, but “hellenized”.]

     34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! {‘Micro’ version, partial scope. Macro at history’s culmination.} How often I would have gathered you to myself {to life, blessing, safety} as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not! 35 Now behold, your house is left desolate.” {God’s Spirit/Presence is a shield, if the shield wanes, logically, the great hatred of the adversary can find entrance.} “And I tell you, you won’t see me again (Jerusalem) until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!’” [A key to prophecy.]

     14:1 - Later, on a Sabbath, he went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, and they were watching him closely. 2 There was a man there who had dropsy [hudrópikos - “edema, a disease produced by the accumulation of water in various parts of the body; very distressing, and commonly incurable; notice how Luke the (greek) doctor uses the name (hudrópikos) of the illness”]. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees {who were testing him} saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Or not?” 4 But they didn’t answer, and he healed the man and sent him on his way. 5 He said to them, “Which one of you, having a son or even an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath, will not go and pull him out??” 6 And they couldn’t give an answer.

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Tomorrow - Luke 14:7-14

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

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