This passage was more than one line and Jesus is preaching, while dissing Nicodemus. Telling him that he, the Pharisee, a person who is rich and studies the religious laws that he is wrong and that God is about love and not law. Now that he has done that, Jesus is reading ancient scrolls, written by Isaiah. Isaiah is what you call an oracle, I mean augur, no physic, wait no prophet. That's right. This is what Isaiah for told, " 'The Spirit of God is on me, the Nazarene reads in Hebrew, 'because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.' He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and the recovery for the sight of the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the Lord's favor' " (O'Rielly 130).
This is the most sermon in the chapter because in this reading Jesus (aka the Nazarene ) is proclaiming that he is the Son of God and that he can preform all of these miracles. He is saying that God personally sent him for those purposes. This is in front of a lot of people in a synagogue, including Pharisees who will now target Jesus and hate him for showing them up in their "place" on the Sabbath. that'd be like the President of Greece heading over to Italy and saying, "Hey, I now am the President of Italy because the United States President said so." They would try and do anything they could to stop that change of power from happening. The Pharisees are going to now target Jesus and try to take him down.
SPOILER
You can't bring Him down, to you here what he's tryin' to say
You can't bring Him dooown.
Would you be a Pharisee or a folloer in this situation?
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Dear Bill.....
Dear Mr. O'Rielly,
I have read all of your lates books expect The Last Days of Jesus, Kennedy, or Lincoln. I found that your books were very insightful into the events of those assassisnations. Killing Jesus so far has been a little scaring and horrifying to my young mind, but I'll get over it. Sometimes I wonder, since people were so scandalous and revolting how have we come so far from that? Yes, I know that there are some people out there that are still like that, but I don't think that it would be to the extreme like Tiberius. At least I hope it's not or as they say, "You'd better hide yo kids. Hide yo wife." Where would these people have gotten these horrendous iedas for execution and entertainment. I get chills just thinking abou tthose porr kids on Carpi with Tiberius. To have to do what he made them do then toss them off a cliff like a rag doll. Unacceptable. Why didn't one of his guards just push him off the cliff? Why was there no mutiny? Were people just not that smart? Maybe they didn't have enough money to educate themselves on the subject.
I thought on this since I mentioned it above, but I guess we have come so far from their type of actions because of Jesus. The people how don't know him are currently the ones who are acting like Ancient Romans or a not as intense Ancient Roman. I feel that Jesus set the standard for how to act and that the intensity level on killing and executions should be taken down 200 levels because it was way too high. He kept calm in situations where he could have gone ballistic or fought back, but he didn't. Yes, the passover incident was a rare crack in his deminor, but are we ever perfect? No. We all sin and make mistakes and lash out it's alright we are human it's natural. What are your thoughts on this hoe do you think socitey has developed into better human beings?
I think that this book is full of good information and interseting even if it's scary at times. How long did it take you and Mike Dugard to collect all the information for your books? Was one imparticaluar harder than another? After you collected all the information was it really easy putting it into a book?
Can't wait to finish reading!
Sincelery,
Rachel Schaffer
I have read all of your lates books expect The Last Days of Jesus, Kennedy, or Lincoln. I found that your books were very insightful into the events of those assassisnations. Killing Jesus so far has been a little scaring and horrifying to my young mind, but I'll get over it. Sometimes I wonder, since people were so scandalous and revolting how have we come so far from that? Yes, I know that there are some people out there that are still like that, but I don't think that it would be to the extreme like Tiberius. At least I hope it's not or as they say, "You'd better hide yo kids. Hide yo wife." Where would these people have gotten these horrendous iedas for execution and entertainment. I get chills just thinking abou tthose porr kids on Carpi with Tiberius. To have to do what he made them do then toss them off a cliff like a rag doll. Unacceptable. Why didn't one of his guards just push him off the cliff? Why was there no mutiny? Were people just not that smart? Maybe they didn't have enough money to educate themselves on the subject.
I thought on this since I mentioned it above, but I guess we have come so far from their type of actions because of Jesus. The people how don't know him are currently the ones who are acting like Ancient Romans or a not as intense Ancient Roman. I feel that Jesus set the standard for how to act and that the intensity level on killing and executions should be taken down 200 levels because it was way too high. He kept calm in situations where he could have gone ballistic or fought back, but he didn't. Yes, the passover incident was a rare crack in his deminor, but are we ever perfect? No. We all sin and make mistakes and lash out it's alright we are human it's natural. What are your thoughts on this hoe do you think socitey has developed into better human beings?
I think that this book is full of good information and interseting even if it's scary at times. How long did it take you and Mike Dugard to collect all the information for your books? Was one imparticaluar harder than another? After you collected all the information was it really easy putting it into a book?
Can't wait to finish reading!
Sincelery,
Rachel Schaffer
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Why I'm Reading Killing Jesus
I am currently reading Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly with the help of Mark Dugard. I chose to read this book because I really enjoy history. I thought it would be interesting to see hoe the artifacts and the writings from that time period line up with what events we think took place and how that lines up with what I and those of the Christian faith believe. I also chose to read this book because I have read his other books Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln. I like these books because you learn a lot of things you didn't know about these historically famous events. For example, Lincolns bodyguard was supposed to be outside the door leading to the balcony where Lincoln was sitting but instead he was in the bar next door having a drink. Guess was in the bar with the bodyguard before the shooting.
If you guess one John Wilks Booth you have just won yourself a car!
Just kidding I don't have one to give away. In Killing Kennedy I learned that John was going to replace Lyndon B. Johnson as Vice President with his brother Bobby, but he died for he could run for his second term. Obviously. Therefore LBJ took over as President. The only reason he was VP in the first place is because Kennedy needed Texas in the election. The relationship between Bobby and Lyndon was a tense one. Let's just say the two would never be best friends ever.
What topic would you be interested in reading Non-Fiction about?
If you guess one John Wilks Booth you have just won yourself a car!
Just kidding I don't have one to give away. In Killing Kennedy I learned that John was going to replace Lyndon B. Johnson as Vice President with his brother Bobby, but he died for he could run for his second term. Obviously. Therefore LBJ took over as President. The only reason he was VP in the first place is because Kennedy needed Texas in the election. The relationship between Bobby and Lyndon was a tense one. Let's just say the two would never be best friends ever.
What topic would you be interested in reading Non-Fiction about?
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