{"id":2303,"date":"2024-03-24T03:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightandlife.org\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2024-04-14T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T02:14:17","slug":"b147-%ec%98%81%ed%95%9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightandlife.org\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"b147 (\uc601\ud55c)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
P.1647 – \u00a71 Jesus and the apostles
\narrived in Capernaum on Wednesday, March 17, and spent two weeks at the
\nBethsaida headquarters before they departed for Jerusalem. These two weeks
\nthe apostles taught the people by the seaside while Jesus spent much time
\nalone in the hills about his Father’s business. During this period Jesus,
\naccompanied by James and John Zebedee, made two secret trips to Tiberias,
\nwhere they met with the believers and instructed them in the gospel of
\nthe kingdom.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		depart for ~\uc744 \ud5a5\ud558\uc5ec \ub5a0\ub098\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1647 – \u00a72 Many of the household of Herod believed
\nin Jesus and attended these meetings. It was the influence of these believers
\namong Herod’s official family that had helped to lessen that ruler’s enmity
\ntoward Jesus. These believers at Tiberias had fully explained to Herod
\nthat the “kingdom” which Jesus proclaimed was spiritual in nature
\nand not a political venture. Herod rather believed these members of his
\nown household and therefore did not permit himself to become unduly alarmed
\nby the spreading abroad of the reports concerning Jesus’ teaching and
\nhealing. He had no objections to Jesus’ work as a healer or religious
\nteacher. <\/font><\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the favorable attitude of many of Herod’s advisers,
\nand even of Herod himself, there existed a group of his subordinates who
\nwere so influenced by the religious leaders at Jerusalem that they remained
\nbitter and threatening enemies of Jesus and the apostles and, later on,
\ndid much to hamper their public activities. The greatest danger to Jesus
\nlay in the Jerusalem religious leaders and not in Herod. And it was for
\nthis very reason that Jesus and the apostles spent so much time and did
\nmost of their public preaching in Galilee rather than at Jerusalem and
\nin Judea.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

amicus = friend<\/p>\n

inimicus = enemy,<\/p>\n

enmity = \uc801\ub300\uac10<\/p>\n

venture = \ubaa8\ud5d8, \uc0ac\uc5c5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1. THE CENTURION’S SERVANT – P.1647
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1647 – \u00a73 On the day before they made ready to
\ngo to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover, Mangus, a centurion, or
\ncaptain, of the Roman guard stationed at Capernaum, came to the rulers
\nof the synagogue, saying: “My faithful orderly is sick and at the
\npoint of death. Would you, therefore, go to Jesus in my behalf and beseech
\nhim to heal my servant?” The Roman captain did this because he thought
\nthe Jewish leaders would have more influence with Jesus. So the elders
\nwent to see Jesus and their spokesman said: “Teacher, we earnestly
\nrequest you to go over to Capernaum and save the favorite servant of the
\nRoman centurion, who is worthy of your notice because he loves our nation
\nand even built us the very synagogue wherein you have so many times spoken.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

orderly, \uc7a1\uc77c\uafbc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1647 – \u00a74 And when Jesus had heard them, he said,
\n“I will go with you.” And as he went with them over to the centurion’s
\nhouse, and before they had entered his yard, the Roman soldier sent his
\nfriends out to greet Jesus, instructing them to say: “Lord, trouble
\nnot yourself to enter my house, for I am not worthy that you
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1648 – \u00a70 should come under my roof. Neither did
\nI think myself worthy to come to you; wherefore I sent the elders of your
\nown people. But I know that you can speak the word where you stand and
\nmy servant will be healed. For I am myself under the orders of others,
\nand I have soldiers under me, and I say to this one go, and he goes; to
\nanother come, and he comes, and to my servants do this or do that, and
\nthey do it.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1648 – \u00a71 And when Jesus heard these words, he
\nturned and said to his apostles and those who were with them: “I
\nmarvel at the belief of the gentile. Verily, verily, I say to you, I have
\nnot found so great faith, no, not in Israel.” Jesus, turning from
\nthe house, said, “Let us go hence.” And the friends of the centurion
\nwent into the house and told Mangus what Jesus had said. And from that
\nhour the servant began to mend and was eventually restored to his normal
\nhealth and usefulness.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1648 – \u00a72 But we never knew just what happened
\non this occasion. This is simply the record, and as to whether or not
\ninvisible beings ministered healing to the centurion’s servant, was not
\nrevealed to those who accompanied Jesus. We only know of the fact of the
\nservant’s complete recovery.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM – P.1648
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1648 – \u00a73 Early on the morning of Tuesday, March
\n30, Jesus and the apostolic party started on their journey to Jerusalem
\nfor the Passover, going by the route of the Jordan valley. They arrived
\non the afternoon of Friday, April 2, and established their headquarters,
\nas usual, at Bethany. Passing through Jericho, they paused to rest while
\nJudas made a deposit of some of their common funds in the bank of a friend
\nof his family. This was the first time Judas had carried a surplus of
\nmoney, and this deposit was left undisturbed until they passed through
\nJericho again when on that last and eventful journey to Jerusalem just
\nbefore the trial and death of Jesus.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

surplus of money, \uc789\uc5ec \uc790\uae08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1648 – \u00a74 The party had an uneventful trip to Jerusalem,
\nbut they had hardly got themselves settled at Bethany when from near and
\nfar those seeking healing for their bodies, comfort for troubled minds,
\nand salvation for their souls, began to congregate, so much so that Jesus
\nhad little time for rest. Therefore they pitched tents at Gethsemane,
\nand the Master would go back and forth from Bethany to Gethsemane to avoid
\nthe crowds which so constantly thronged him. The apostolic party spent
\nalmost three weeks at Jerusalem, but Jesus enjoined them to do no public
\npreaching, only private teaching and personal work.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		pitch tents, \ud150\ud2b8\ub97c \uce58\ub2e4, \ub358\uc9c0\ub2e4, \uae30\ubd80\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

go back and forth, \uc774\ub9ac\uc800\ub9ac \ub2e4\ub2c8\ub2e4, \uc624\uac00\ub2e4<\/p>\n

enjoin, \uae08\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1648 – \u00a75 At Bethany they quietly celebrated the
\nPassover. And this was the first time that Jesus and all of the twelve
\npartook of the bloodless Passover feast. The apostles of John did not
\neat the Passover with Jesus and his apostles; they celebrated the feast
\nwith Abner and many of the early believers in John’s preaching. This was
\nthe second Passover Jesus had observed with his apostles in Jerusalem.<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1648 – \u00a76 When Jesus and the twelve departed for
\nCapernaum, the apostles of John did not return with them. Under the direction
\nof Abner they remained in Jerusalem and the surrounding country, quietly
\nlaboring for the extension of the kingdom, while Jesus and the twelve
\nreturned to work in Galilee. Never again were the twenty-four all together
\nuntil a short time before the commissioning and sending forth of the seventy
\nevangelists. But the two groups were co-operative, and notwithstanding
\ntheir differences of opinion, the best of feelings prevailed.<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n3<\/font>. AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA – P.1649
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1649 – \u00a71 The afternoon of the second Sabbath in
\nJerusalem, as the Master and the apostles were about to participate in
\nthe temple services, John said to Jesus, “Come with me, I would show
\nyou something.” John conducted Jesus out through one of the Jerusalem
\ngates to a pool of water called Bethesda. Surrounding this pool was a
\nstructure of five porches under which a large group of sufferers lingered
\nin quest of healing. This was a hot spring whose reddish-tinged water
\nwould bubble up at irregular intervals because of gas accumulations in
\nthe rock caverns underneath the pool. This periodic disturbance of the
\nwarm waters was believed by many to be due to supernatural influences,
\nand it was a popular belief that the first person who entered the water
\nafter such a disturbance would be healed of whatever infirmity he had.<\/font><\/td>\n

infirmity, \ud5c8\uc57d, \uc9c8\ubcd1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n<\/font>P.1649 – \u00a72 The apostles were somewhat restless under
\nthe restrictions imposed by Jesus, and John, the youngest of the twelve,
\nwas especially restive under this restraint. He had brought Jesus to the
\npool thinking that the sight of the assembled sufferers would make such
\nan appeal to the Master’s compassion that he would be moved to perform
\na miracle of healing, and thereby would all Jerusalem be astounded and
\npresently be won to believe in the gospel of the kingdom. Said John to
\nJesus: “Master, see all of these suffering ones; is there nothing
\nwe can do for them?” And Jesus replied: “John, why would you
\ntempt me to turn aside from the way I have chosen? Why do you go on desiring
\nto substitute the working of wonders and the healing of the sick for the
\nproclamation of the gospel of eternal truth? My son, I may not do that
\nwhich you desire, but gather together these sick and afflicted that I
\nmay speak words of good cheer and eternal comfort to them.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

impose, in + poser (place) \ubd80\uacfc\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

restive, \uce68\ucc29\ud558\uc9c0 \ubabb\ud55c, \ubd88\uc548\ud55c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1649 – \u00a73 In speaking to those assembled, Jesus
\nsaid: “Many of you are here, sick and afflicted, because of your
\nmany years of wrong living. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others
\nas a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle
\nunder the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence.
\nBut my Father works, and I would work, to improve your earthly state but
\nmore especially to insure your eternal estate. None of us can do much
\nto change the difficulties of life unless we discover the Father in heaven
\nso wills. After all, we are all beholden to do the will of the Eternal.
\nIf you could all be healed of your physical afflictions, you would indeed
\nmarvel, but it is even greater that you should be cleansed of all spiritual
\ndisease and find yourselves healed of all moral infirmities. <\/font><\/p>\n

You are all
\nGod’s children; you are the sons of the heavenly Father. The bonds of
\ntime may seem to afflict you, but the God of eternity loves you. And when
\nthe time of judgment shall come, fear not, you shall all find, not only
\njustice, but an abundance of mercy. Verily, verily, I say to you: He who
\nhears the gospel of the kingdom and believes in this teaching of sonship
\nwith God, has eternal life; already are such believers passing from judgment
\nand death to light and life. And the hour is coming in which even those
\nwho are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the resurrection.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

accidents of time, \uc6b0\uc5f0\ud55c \uc0ac\uace0\ub85c<\/p>\n

beholden, \uc2e0\uc138\ub97c \uc9c0\uace0 \uc788\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1649 – \u00a74 And many of those who heard believed
\nthe gospel of the kingdom. Some of the afflicted were so inspired and
\nspiritually revivified that they went about proclaiming that they had
\nalso been cured of their physical ailments.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1649 – \u00a75 One man who had been many years downcast
\nand grievously afflicted by the infirmities of his troubled mind, rejoiced
\nat Jesus’ words and, picking up his
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1650 – \u00a70 bed, went forth to his home, even though
\nit was the Sabbath day. This afflicted man had waited all these years
\nfor somebody to help him; he was such a victim of the feeling of his own
\nhelplessness that he had never once entertained the idea of helping himself
\nwhich proved to be the one thing he had to do in order to effect recovery–take
\nup his bed and walk.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1650 – \u00a71 Then said Jesus to John: “Let us
\ndepart ere the chief priests and the scribes come upon us and take offense
\nthat we spoke words of life to these afflicted ones.” And they returned
\nto the temple to join their companions, and presently all of them departed
\nto spend the night at Bethany. But John never told the other apostles
\nof this visit of himself and Jesus to the pool of Bethesda on this Sabbath
\nafternoon.<\/font><\/td>\n

take offense, \uae30\ubd84\uc744 \uc0c1\ud558\ub2e4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. THE RULE OF LIVING – P.1650
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1650 – \u00a72 On the evening of this same Sabbath day,
\nat Bethany, while Jesus, the twelve, and a group of believers were assembled
\nabout the fire in Lazarus’s garden, Nathaniel asked Jesus this question:
\n“Master, although you have taught us the positive version of the
\nold rule of life, instructing us that we should do to others as we wish
\nthem to do to us, I do not fully discern how we can always abide by such
\nan injunction. Let me illustrate my contention by citing the example of
\na lustful man who thus wickedly looks upon his intended consort in sin.
\nHow can we teach that this evil-intending man should do to others as he
\nwould they should do to him?”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

old rule of life, \uc61b \uc0dd\ud65c \ubc95\uce59, \uc61b \ub3c4\ub9ac<\/p>\n

contention, \uc8fc\uc7a5<\/p>\n

cite, \uc778\uc6a9\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

consort, \ubc30\uc6b0\uc790<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1650 – \u00a73 When Jesus heard Nathaniel’s question,
\nhe immediately stood upon his feet and, pointing his finger at the apostle,
\nsaid: “Nathaniel, Nathaniel! What manner of thinking is going on
\nin your heart? Do you not receive my teachings as one who has been born
\nof the spirit? Do you not hear the truth as men of wisdom and spiritual
\nunderstanding? When I admonished you to do to others as you would have
\nthem do to you, I spoke to men of high ideals, not to those who would
\nbe tempted to distort my teaching into a license for the encouragement
\nof evil doing.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		in your heart, \ub9c8\uc74c \uc18d\uc5d0<\/p>\n

distort, \uc65c\uace1\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

license, \ubc29\uc885<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1650 – \u00a74 When the Master had spoken, Nathaniel
\nstood up and said: “But, Master, you should not think that I approve
\nof such an interpretation of your teaching. I asked the question because
\nI conjectured that many such men might thus misjudge your admonition,
\nand I hoped you would give us further instruction regarding these matters.”
\nAnd then when Nathaniel had sat down, Jesus continued speaking: “I
\nwell know, Nathaniel, that no such idea of evil is approved in your mind,
\nbut I am disappointed in that you all so often fail to put a genuinely
\nspiritual interpretation upon my commonplace teachings, instruction which
\nmust be given you in human language and as men must speak. Let me now
\nteach you concerning the differing levels of meaning attached to the interpretation
\nof this rule of living, this admonition to `do to others that which you
\ndesire others to do to you’:<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

conjecture < con + jacere (\ub358\uc9c0\ub2e4)<\/p>\n

commonplace, \ud3c9\ubc94\ud55c<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1650 – \u00a75 “1. The level of the flesh. Such
\na purely selfish and lustful interpretation would be well exemplified
\nby the supposition of your question.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1650 – \u00a76 “2. The level of the feelings. This
\nplane is one level higher than that of the flesh and implies that sympathy
\nand pity would enhance one’s interpretation of this rule of living.<\/font><\/td>\n

lust, \uc815\uc695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1650 – \u00a77 “3. The level of mind. Now come
\ninto action the reason of mind and the intelligence of experience. Good
\njudgment dictates that such a rule of living
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1651 – \u00a70 should be interpreted in consonance with
\nthe highest idealism embodied in the nobility of profound self-respect.<\/font><\/td>\n

\uc9c0\uc131\uc758 \ub17c\ub9ac\uc640 \uccb4\ud5d8\uc73c\ub85c \uc5bb\ub294 \uc9c0\ub2a5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1651 – \u00a71 “4. The level of brotherly love.
\nStill higher is discovered the level of unselfish devotion to the welfare
\nof one’s fellows. On this higher plane of wholehearted social service
\ngrowing out of the consciousness of the fatherhood of God and the consequent
\nrecognition of the brotherhood of man, there is discovered a new and far
\nmore beautiful interpretation of this basic rule of life.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1651 – \u00a72 “5. The moral level. And then when
\nyou attain true philosophic levels of interpretation, when you have real
\ninsight into the rightness and wrongness of things, when you perceive
\nthe eternal fitness of human relationships, you will begin to view such
\na problem of interpretation as you would imagine a high-minded, idealistic,
\nwise, and impartial third person would so view and interpret such an injunction
\nas applied to your personal problems of adjustment to your life situations.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

high minded, \uace0\uacb0\ud55c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1651 – \u00a73 “6. The spiritual level. And then
\nlast, but greatest of all, we attain the level of spirit insight and spiritual
\ninterpretation which impels us to recognize in this rule of life the divine
\ncommand to treat all men as we conceive God would treat them. That is
\nthe universe ideal of human relationships. And this is your attitude toward
\nall such problems when your supreme desire is ever to do the Father’s
\nwill. I would, therefore, that you should do to all men that which you
\nknow I would do to them in like circumstances.”<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/td>\n

impel < in + pellere (drive), \uc555\ubc15\ud558\ub2e4, \uaf3c\uc9dd \ubabb\ud558\uac8c \uc7ac\ucd09, \ucd94\uc9c4\ud558\ub2e4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1651 – \u00a74 Nothing Jesus had said to the apostles
\nup to this time had ever more astonished them. They continued to discuss
\nthe Master’s words long after he had retired. While Nathaniel was slow
\nto recover from his supposition that Jesus had misunderstood the spirit
\nof his question, the others were more than thankful that their philosophic
\nfellow apostle had had the courage to ask such a thought-provoking question.<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. VISITING SIMON THE PHARISEE – P.1651
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1651 – \u00a75 Though Simon was not a member of the
\nJewish Sanhedrin, he was an influential Pharisee of Jerusalem. He was
\na half-hearted believer, and notwithstanding that he might be severely
\ncriticized therefor, he dared to invite Jesus and his personal associates,
\nPeter, James, and John, to his home for a social meal. Simon had long
\nobserved the Master and was much impressed with his teachings and even
\nmore so with his personality.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

half-hearted, \ubc18\uc740 \ubbff\ub294<\/p>\n

personality, \uc778\ud488, \uc778\uaca9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/p>\n

P.1651 – \u00a76 The wealthy Pharisees were devoted to
\nalmsgiving, and they did not shun publicity regarding their philanthropy.
\nSometimes they would even blow a trumpet as they were about to bestow
\ncharity upon some beggar. It was the custom of these Pharisees, when they
\nprovided a banquet for distinguished guests, to leave the doors of the
\nhouse open so that even the street beggars might come in and, standing
\naround the walls of the room behind the couches of the diners, be in position
\nto receive portions of food which might be tossed to them by the banqueters.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

philanthropy < G: phil (love) + anthropos (human being), \ubc15\uc560<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1651 – \u00a77 On this particular occasion at Simon’s
\nhouse, among those who came in off the street was a woman of unsavory
\nreputation who had recently become a believer in the good news of the
\ngospel of the kingdom. This woman was well known throughout all Jerusalem
\nas the former keeper of one of the so-called high-class brothels located
\nhard by the temple court of the gentiles. She had,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1652 – \u00a70 on accepting the teachings of Jesus,
\nclosed up her nefarious place of business and had induced the majority
\nof the women associated with her to accept the gospel and change their
\nmode of living; notwithstanding this, she was still held in great disdain
\nby the Pharisees and was compelled to wear her hair down–the badge of
\nharlotry. This unnamed woman had brought with her a large flask of perfumed
\nanointing lotion and, standing behind Jesus as he reclined at meat, began
\nto anoint his feet while she also wet his feet with her tears of gratitude,
\nwiping them with the hair of her head. And when she had finished this
\nanointing, she continued weeping and kissing his feet.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

unsavory, \ub9db\uc774 \uc88b\uc9c0 \uc54a\uc740, \ud3c9\ud310\uc774 \ub098\uc05c<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

hard, \ubc14\ub85c \ucf54\uc55e\uc5d0<\/p>\n

nefarious < ne (not) + fas (right), \ubc95\uc744 \uc5b4\uae30\ub294, \uc0ac\uc545\ud55c<\/p>\n

disdain, \uacbd\uba78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1652 – \u00a71 When Simon saw all this, he said to himself:
\n“This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what
\nmanner of woman this is who thus touches him; that she is a notorious
\nsinner.” And Jesus, knowing what was going on in Simon’s mind, spoke
\nup, saying: “Simon, I have something which I would like to say to
\nyou.” Simon answered, “Teacher, say on.” Then said Jesus:
\n“A certain wealthy moneylender had two debtors. The one owed him
\nfive hundred denarii and the other fifty. Now, when neither of them had
\nwherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them do you think, Simon,
\nwould love him most?” Simon answered, “He, I suppose, whom he
\nforgave the most.”<\/font><\/td>\n		say on, \uacc4\uc18d \ub9d0\uc500\ud558\uc18c\uc11c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
And Jesus said, “You have rightly judged,”
\nand pointing to the woman, he continued: “Simon, take a good look
\nat this woman. I entered your house as an invited guest, yet you gave
\nme no water for my feet. This grateful woman has washed my feet with tears
\nand wiped them with the hair of her head. You gave me no kiss of friendly
\ngreeting, but this woman, ever since she came in, has not ceased to kiss
\nmy feet. My head with oil you neglected to anoint, but she has anointed
\nmy feet with precious lotions. And what is the meaning of all this? Simply
\nthat her many sins have been forgiven, and this has led her to love much.
\nBut those who have received but little forgiveness sometimes love but
\nlittle.” And turning around toward the woman, he took her by the
\nhand and, lifting her up, said: “You have indeed repented of your
\nsins, and they are forgiven. Be not discouraged by the thoughtless and
\nunkind attitude of your fellows; go on in the joy and liberty of the kingdom
\nof heaven.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1652 – \u00a72 When Simon and his friends who sat at
\nmeat with him heard these words, they were the more astonished, and they
\nbegan to whisper among themselves, “Who is this man that he even
\ndares to forgive sins?” And when Jesus heard them thus murmuring,
\nhe turned to dismiss the woman, saying, “Woman, go in peace; your
\nfaith has saved you.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		murmur, \uc6c5\uc5bc\uac70\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1652 – \u00a73 As Jesus arose with his friends to leave,
\nhe turned to Simon and said: “I know your heart, Simon, how you are
\ntorn betwixt faith and doubts, how you are distraught by fear and troubled
\nby pride; but I pray for you that you may yield to the light and may experience
\nin your station in life just such mighty transformations of mind and spirit
\nas may be comparable to the tremendous changes which the gospel of the
\nkingdom has already wrought in the heart of your unbidden and unwelcome
\nguest. And I declare to all of you that the Father has opened the doors
\nof the heavenly kingdom to all who have the faith to enter, and no man
\nor association of men can close those doors even to the most humble soul
\nor supposedly most flagrant sinner on earth if such sincerely seek an
\nentrance.” And Jesus, with Peter, James, and John, took leave of
\ntheir host and went to join the rest of the apostles at the camp in the
\ngarden of Gethsemane.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

flagrant < blazing, \ubd88\ud0c0\ub294<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1653 – \u00a71 That same evening Jesus made the long-to-be-remembered
\naddress to the apostles regarding the relative value of status with God
\nand progress in the eternal ascent to Paradise. Said Jesus: “My children,
\nif there exists a true and living connection between the child and the
\nFather, the child is certain to progress continuously toward the Father’s
\nideals. True, the child may at first make slow progress, but the progress
\nis none the less sure. The important thing is not the rapidity of your
\nprogress but rather its certainty. Your actual achievement is not so important
\nas the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward. What you are
\nbecoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are
\ntoday.<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1653 – \u00a72 “This transformed woman whom some
\nof you saw at Simon’s house today is, at this moment, living on a level
\nwhich is vastly below that of Simon and his well-meaning associates; but
\nwhile these Pharisees are occupied with the false progress of the illusion
\nof traversing deceptive circles of meaningless ceremonial services, this
\nwoman has, in dead earnest, started out on the long and eventful search
\nfor God, and her path toward heaven is not blocked by spiritual pride
\nand moral self-satisfaction. <\/font><\/p>\n

The woman is, humanly speaking, much farther
\naway from God than Simon, but her soul is in progressive motion; she is
\non the way toward an eternal goal. There are present in this woman tremendous
\nspiritual possibilities for the future. Some of you may not stand high
\nin actual levels of soul and spirit, but you are making daily progress
\non the living way opened up, through faith, to God. There are tremendous
\npossibilities in each of you for the future. Better by far to have a small
\nbut living and growing faith than to be possessed of a great intellect
\nwith its dead stores of worldly wisdom and spiritual unbelief.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

by far, \ud6e8\uc52c \ub354<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1653 – \u00a73 But Jesus earnestly warned his apostles
\nagainst the foolishness of the child of God who presumes upon the Father’s
\nlove. He declared that the heavenly Father is not a lax, loose, or foolishly
\nindulgent parent who is ever ready to condone sin and forgive recklessness.
\nHe cautioned his hearers not mistakenly to apply his illustrations of
\nfather and son so as to make it appear that God is like some overindulgent
\nand unwise parents who conspire with the foolish of earth to encompass
\nthe moral undoing of their thoughtless children, and who are thereby certainly
\nand directly contributing to the delinquency and early demoralization
\nof their own offspring. Said Jesus: “My Father does not indulgently
\ncondone those acts and practices of his children which are self-destructive
\nand suicidal to all moral growth and spiritual progress. Such sinful practices
\nare an abomination in the sight of God.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n		presume, \uc8fc\uc81c\ub118\uac8c \uac00\uc815\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

abominable, \ud610\uc624\ud560<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/p>\n

P.1653 – \u00a74 Many other semiprivate meetings and banquets
\ndid Jesus attend with the high and the low, the rich and the poor, of
\nJerusalem before he and his apostles finally departed for Capernaum. And
\nmany, indeed, became believers in the gospel of the kingdom and were subsequently
\nbaptized by Abner and his associates, who remained behind to foster the
\ninterests of the kingdom in Jerusalem and thereabouts.<\/font><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. RETURNING TO CAPERNAUM – P.1653
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1653 – \u00a75 The last week of April, Jesus and the
\ntwelve departed from their Bethany headquarters near Jerusalem and began
\ntheir journey back to Capernaum by way of Jericho and the Jordan.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1654 – \u00a71 The chief priests and the religious leaders
\nof the Jews held many secret meetings for the purpose of deciding what
\nto do with Jesus. They were all agreed that something should be done to
\nput a stop to his teaching, but they could not agree on the method. They
\nhad hoped that the civil authorities would dispose of him as Herod had
\nput an end to John, but they discovered that Jesus was so conducting his
\nwork that the Roman officials were not much alarmed by his preaching.
\nAccordingly, at a meeting which was held the day before Jesus’ departure
\nfor Capernaum, it was decided that he would have to be apprehended on
\na religious charge and be tried by the Sanhedrin. <\/font><\/p>\n

Therefore a commission
\nof six secret spies was appointed to follow Jesus, to observe his words
\nand acts, and when they had amassed sufficient evidence of lawbreaking
\nand blasphemy, to return to Jerusalem with their report. These six Jews
\ncaught up with the apostolic party, numbering about thirty, at Jericho
\nand, under the pretense of desiring to become disciples, attached themselves
\nto Jesus’ family of followers, remaining with the group up to the time
\nof the beginning of the second preaching tour in Galilee; whereupon three
\nof them returned to Jerusalem to submit their report to the chief priests
\nand the Sanhedrin.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

by way of, ~\uc744 \uacbd\uc720\ud558\uc5ec, \uae38\ub85c<\/p>\n

chief priests, 18 \uba85 (Josephus)<\/p>\n

blasphemy, G: \uc2e0\uc131 \ubaa8\ub3c5<\/p>\n

blaspheme against, \uc2e0\uc131\uc744 \ubaa8\ub3c5\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

catch up with, ~\uc744 \ub530\ub77c\uc7a1\ub2e4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/p>\n

P.1654 – \u00a72 Peter preached to the assembled multitude
\nat the crossing of the Jordan, and the following morning they moved up
\nthe river toward Amathus. They wanted to proceed straight on to Capernaum,
\nbut such a crowd gathered here they remained three days, preaching, teaching,
\nand baptizing. They did not move toward home until early Sabbath morning,
\nthe first day of May. The Jerusalem spies were sure they would now secure
\ntheir first charge against Jesus–that of Sabbath breaking–since he had
\npresumed to start his journey on the Sabbath day. But they were doomed
\nto disappointment because, just before their departure, Jesus called Andrew
\ninto his presence and before them all instructed him to proceed for a
\ndistance of only one thousand yards, the legal Jewish Sabbath day’s journey.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

crossing, \uac74\ub298\ubaa9<\/p>\n

doomed to disappoint, \ub099\uc2ec\ud560 \uc6b4\uba85\uc774\uc5c8\ub2e4.<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1654 – \u00a73 But the spies did not have long to wait
\nfor their opportunity to accuse Jesus and his associates of Sabbath breaking.
\nAs the company passed along the narrow road, the waving wheat, which was
\njust then ripening, was near at hand on either side, and some of the apostles,
\nbeing hungry, plucked the ripe grain and ate it. It was customary for
\ntravelers to help themselves to grain as they passed along the road, and
\ntherefore no thought of wrongdoing was attached to such conduct. But the
\nspies seized upon this as a pretext for assailing Jesus. When they saw
\nAndrew rub the grain in his hand, they went up to him and said: “Do
\nyou not know that it is unlawful to pluck and rub the grain on the Sabbath
\nday?” And Andrew answered: “But we are hungry and rub only sufficient
\nfor our needs; and since when did it become sinful to eat grain on the
\nSabbath day?” <\/font><\/p>\n

But the Pharisees answered: “You do no wrong in
\neating, but you do break the law in plucking and rubbing out the grain
\nbetween your hands; surely your Master would not approve of such acts.”
\nThen said Andrew: “But if it is not wrong to eat the grain, surely
\nthe rubbing out between our hands is hardly more work than the chewing
\nof the grain, which you allow; wherefore do you quibble over such trifles?”
\nWhen Andrew intimated that they were quibblers, they were indignant, and
\nrushing back to where Jesus walked along, talking to Matthew, they protested,
\nsaying: “Behold, Teacher, your apostles do that which is unlawful
\non the Sabbath day; they pluck, rub, and eat the grain. We are sure you
\nwill command them to cease.” <\/font><\/p>\n

And then said Jesus to the accusers:
\n“You are
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1655 – \u00a70 indeed zealous for the law, and you do
\nwell to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; but did you never read
\nin the Scripture that, one day when David was hungry, he and they who
\nwere with him entered the house of God and ate the showbread, which it
\nwas not lawful for anyone to eat save the priests? and David also gave
\nthis bread to those who were with him. And have you not read in our law
\nthat it is lawful to do many needful things on the Sabbath day? And shall
\nI not, before the day is finished, see you eat that which you have brought
\nalong for the needs of this day? My good men, you do well to be zealous
\nfor the Sabbath, but you would do better to guard the health and well-being
\nof your fellows. I declare that the Sabbath was made for man and not man
\nfor the Sabbath. And if you are here present with us to watch my words,
\nthen will I openly proclaim that the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

accuse someone of something, \ubb34\uc2a8 \uc8c4\uac00 \uc788\ub2e4\uace0 \uace0\ubc1c\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

quibble, \uc0ac\uc18c\ud55c \uac83\uc744 \uac00\uc9c0\uace0 \ud2b8\uc9d1 \uc7a1\ub2e4<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

zealous for, ~\uc5d0 \uc5f4\uc2ec\uc778<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1655 – \u00a71 The Pharisees were astonished and confounded
\nby his words of discernment and wisdom. For the remainder of the day they
\nkept by themselves and dared not ask any more questions.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1655 – \u00a72 Jesus’ antagonism to the Jewish traditions
\nand slavish ceremonials was always positive. It consisted in what he did
\nand in what he affirmed. The Master spent little time in negative denunciations.
\nHe taught that those who know God can enjoy the liberty of living without
\ndeceiving themselves by the licenses of sinning. Said Jesus to the apostles:
\n“Men, if you are enlightened by the truth and really know what you
\nare doing, you are blessed; but if you know not the divine way, you are
\nunfortunate and already breakers of the law.”<\/font><\/td>\n

denounce < de (down) + nuntiare (messenger)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. BACK IN CAPERNAUM – P.1655
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1655 – \u00a73 It was around noon on Monday, May 3,
\nwhen Jesus and the twelve came to Bethsaida by boat from Tarichea. They
\ntraveled by boat in order to escape those who journeyed with them. But
\nby the next day the others, including the official spies from Jerusalem,
\nhad again found Jesus.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P.1655 – \u00a74 On Tuesday evening Jesus was conducting
\none of his customary classes of questions and answers when the leader
\nof the six spies said to him: “I was today talking with one of John’s
\ndisciples who is here attending upon your teaching, and we were at a loss
\nto understand why you never command your disciples to fast and pray as
\nwe Pharisees fast and as John bade his followers.” And Jesus, referring
\nto a statement by John, answered this questioner: “Do the sons of
\nthe bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as the
\nbridegroom remains with them, they can hardly fast. But the time is coming
\nwhen the bridegroom shall be taken away, and during those times the children
\nof the bridechamber undoubtedly will fast and pray. <\/font><\/p>\n

To pray is natural
\nfor the children of light, but fasting is not a part of the gospel of
\nthe kingdom of heaven. Be reminded that a wise tailor does not sew a piece
\nof new and unshrunk cloth upon an old garment, lest, when it is wet, it
\nshrink and produce a worse rent. Neither do men put new wine into old
\nwine skins, lest the new wine burst the skins so that both the wine and
\nthe skins perish. The wise man puts the new wine into fresh wine skins.
\nTherefore do my disciples show wisdom in that they do not bring too much
\nof the old order over into the new teaching of the gospel of the kingdom.
\nYou who have lost your teacher may be justified in fasting for a time.
\nFasting may be an appropriate part of the law of Moses, but in the coming
\nkingdom the sons of God shall experience freedom from fear and joy in
\nthe divine spirit.”<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1656 – \u00a70 And when they heard these words, the
\ndisciples of John were comforted while the Pharisees themselves were the
\nmore confounded.<\/font><\/td>\n

at a loss, \uc5b4\ucc0c\ud560 \uc904 \ubab0\ub77c\uc11c \ub2f9\ud669\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

bid, bade, bidden, \uba85\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n

bridegroom, \uc2e0\ub791<\/p>\n

rend, rent \ucc22\ub2e4, \ucc22\uae34 \uacf3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n


\n<\/font>P.1656 – \u00a71 Then the Master proceeded to warn his
\nhearers against entertaining the notion that all olden teaching should
\nbe replaced entirely by new doctrines. Said Jesus: “That which is
\nold and also true must abide. Likewise, that which is new but false must
\nbe rejected. But that which is new and also true, have the faith and courage
\nto accept. Remember it is written: `Forsake not an old friend, for the
\nnew is not comparable to him. As new wine, so is a new friend; if it becomes
\nold, you shall drink it with gladness.'”<\/font><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8. THE FEAST OF SPIRITUAL GOODNESS – P.1656
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1656 – \u00a72 That night, long after the usual listeners
\nhad retired, Jesus continued to teach his apostles. He began this special
\ninstruction by quoting from the Prophet Isaiah:<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1656 – \u00a73 “`Why have you fasted? For what
\nreason do you afflict your souls while you continue to find pleasure in
\noppression and to take delight in injustice? Behold, you fast for the
\nsake of strife and contention and to smite with the fist of wickedness.
\nBut you shall not fast in this way to make your voices heard on high.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1656 – \u00a74 “`Is it such a fast that I have
\nchosen–a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head
\nlike a bulrush, to grovel in sackcloth and ashes? Will you dare to call
\nthis a fast and an acceptable day in the sight of the Lord? Is not this
\nthe fast I should choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the
\nknots of heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every
\nyoke? Is it not to share my bread with the hungry and to bring those who
\nare homeless and poor to my house? And when I see those who are naked,
\nI will clothe them.
\n<\/font><\/td>\n

bulrush = papyrus, \uace8\ud480 (\ub3d7\uc790\ub9ac \uc6a9)<\/p>\n

grovel = \uae30\ub2e4, \uad7d\uc2e4\uac70\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/p>\n

sackcloth, \uc0bc\ubca0\uc637, \ucc38\ud68c\uc758 \ud45c\uc2dc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

P.1656 – \u00a75 “`Then shall your light break forth
\nas the morning while your health springs forth speedily. Your righteousness
\nshall go before you while the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
\nThen will you call upon the Lord, and he shall answer; you will cry out,
\nand he shall say–Here am I. And all this he will do if you refrain from
\noppression, condemnation, and vanity. The Father rather desires that you
\ndraw out your heart to the hungry, and that you minister to the afflicted
\nsouls; then shall your light shine in obscurity, and even your darkness
\nshall be as the noonday. Then shall the Lord guide you continually, satisfying
\nyour soul and renewing your strength. You shall become like a watered
\ngarden, like a spring whose waters fail not. And they who do these things
\nshall restore the wasted glories; they shall raise up the foundations
\nof many generations; they shall be called the rebuilders of broken walls,
\nthe restorers of safe paths in which to dwell.'”<\/font><\/td>\n		break forth, \ub3cc\uc9c4\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

P.1656 – \u00a76 And then long into the night Jesus propounded
\nto his apostles the truth that it was their faith that made them secure
\nin the kingdom of the present and the future, and not their affliction
\nof soul nor fasting of body. He exhorted the apostles at least to live
\nup to the ideas of the prophet of old and expressed the hope that they
\nwould progress far beyond even the ideals of Isaiah and the older prophets.
\nHis last words that night were: “Grow in grace by means of that living
\nfaith which grasps the fact that you are the sons of God while at the
\nsame time it recognizes every man as a brother.”
\nP.1656 – \u00a77 It was after two o’clock in the morning when Jesus ceased
\nspeaking and every man went to his place for sleep.<\/font><\/td>\n

long into the night, \ubc24\uc774 \ub2a6\ub3c4\ub85d<\/p>\n

propound < pro + ponere (put), \uc81c\uc548\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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