{"id":2607,"date":"2025-02-16T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightandlife.org\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:32:37","slug":"b154-%ec%98%81%ed%95%9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightandlife.org\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"b154 (\uc601\ud55c)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1717 &#8211; &sect;1 On the eventful Saturday night<br \/>\n      of April 30, as Jesus was speaking words of comfort and courage to his downcast<br \/>\n      and bewildered disciples, at Tiberias a council was being held between Herod<br \/>\n      Antipas and a group of special commissioners representing the Jerusalem<br \/>\n      Sanhedrin. These scribes and Pharisees urged Herod to arrest Jesus; they<br \/>\n      did their best to convince him that Jesus was stirring up the populace to<br \/>\n      dissension and even to rebellion. But Herod refused to take action against<br \/>\n      him as a political offender. Herod&#8217;s advisers had correctly reported the<br \/>\n      episode across the lake when the people sought to proclaim Jesus king and<br \/>\n      how he rejected the proposal.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>bewildered, \ub2f9\ud669\ud55c<\/p>\n<p>dissension, \uc758\uacac \ucc28\uc774, \ubd88\ud654<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1717 &#8211; &sect;2 One of Herod&#8217;s official family, Chuza,<br \/>\n        whose wife belonged to the women&#8217;s ministering corps, had informed him<br \/>\n        that Jesus did not propose to meddle with the affairs of earthly rule;<br \/>\n        that he was only concerned with the establishment of the spiritual brotherhood<br \/>\n        of his believers, which brotherhood he called the kingdom of heaven. Herod<br \/>\n        had confidence in Chuza&#8217;s reports, so much so that he refused to interfere<br \/>\n        with Jesus&#8217; activities. Herod was also influenced at this time, in his<br \/>\n        attitude toward Jesus, by his superstitious fear of John the Baptist.<br \/>\n        Herod was one of those apostate Jews who, while he believed nothing, feared<br \/>\n        everything. He had a bad conscience for having put John to death, and<br \/>\n        he did not want to become entangled in these intrigues against Jesus.<br \/>\n        He knew of many cases of sickness which had been apparently healed by<br \/>\n        Jesus, and he regarded him as either a prophet or a relatively harmless<br \/>\n    religious fanatic.<\/font><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>apostate, \ubc30\uad50\uc790, \ubcc0\uc808\uc790<\/p>\n<p>intrigue, \uc74c\ubaa8, \ud749\uacc4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1717 &#8211; &sect;3 When the Jews threatened to report to<br \/>\n        Caesar that he was shielding a traitorous subject, Herod ordered them<br \/>\n        out of his council chamber. Thus matters rested for one week, during which<br \/>\n    time Jesus prepared his followers for the impending dispersion.<\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"54%\">\n<p><font size=\"5\">1. A WEEK OF COUNSEL &#8211; P.1717<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1717 &#8211; &sect;4 From May 1 to May 7 Jesus held intimate<br \/>\n        counsel with his followers at the Zebedee house. Only the tried and trusted<br \/>\n        disciples were admitted to these conferences. At this time there were<br \/>\n        only about one hundred disciples who had the moral courage to brave the<br \/>\n        opposition of the Pharisees and openly declare their adherence to Jesus.<br \/>\n        With this group he held sessions morning, afternoon, and evening. Small<br \/>\n        companies of inquirers assembled each afternoon by the seaside, where<br \/>\n        some of the evangelists or apostles discoursed to them. These groups seldom<br \/>\n        numbered more than fifty.<br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"46%\">councel, \uc0c1\ub2f4, \uc758\ub17c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1717 &#8211; &sect;5 On Friday of this week official action<br \/>\n        was taken by the rulers of the Capernaum synagogue closing the house of<br \/>\n        God to Jesus and all his followers. This <br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1718 &#8211; &sect;0 action was taken at the instigation of<br \/>\n        the Jerusalem Pharisees. Jairus resigned as chief ruler and openly aligned<br \/>\n        himself with Jesus.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1718 &#8211; &sect;1 The last of the seaside meetings was<br \/>\n        held on Sabbath afternoon, May 7. Jesus talked to less than one hundred<br \/>\n        and fifty who had assembled at that time. This Saturday night marked the<br \/>\n        time of the lowest ebb in the tide of popular regard for Jesus and his<br \/>\n        teachings. From then on there was a steady, slow, but more healthful and<br \/>\n        dependable growth in favorable sentiment; a new following was built up<br \/>\n        which was better grounded in spiritual faith and true religious experience.<br \/>\n        The more or less composite and compromising transition stage between the<br \/>\n        materialistic concepts of the kingdom held by the Master&#8217;s followers and<br \/>\n        those more idealistic and spiritual concepts taught by Jesus, had now<br \/>\n        definitely ended. From now on there was a more open proclamation of the<br \/>\n        gospel of the kingdom in its larger scope and in its far-flung spiritual<br \/>\n    implications.<\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">2. A WEEK OF REST &#8211; P.1718<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1718 &#8211; &sect;2 Sunday, May 8, A.D. 29, at Jerusalem,<br \/>\n        the Sanhedrin passed a decree closing all the synagogues of Palestine<br \/>\n        to Jesus and his followers. This was a new and unprecedented usurpation<br \/>\n        of authority by the Jerusalem Sanhedrin. Theretofore each synagogue had<br \/>\n        existed and functioned as an independent congregation of worshipers and<br \/>\n        was under the rule and direction of its own board of governors. Only the<br \/>\n        synagogues of Jerusalem had been subject to the authority of the Sanhedrin.<br \/>\n        This summary action of the Sanhedrin was followed by the resignation of<br \/>\n        five of its members. One hundred messengers were immediately dispatched<br \/>\n    to convey and enforce this decree. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">Within the short space of two weeks<br \/>\n        every synagogue in Palestine had bowed to this manifesto of the Sanhedrin<br \/>\n        except the synagogue at Hebron. The rulers of the Hebron synagogue refused<br \/>\n        to acknowledge the right of the Sanhedrin to exercise such jurisdiction<br \/>\n        over their assembly. This refusal to accede to the Jerusalem decree was<br \/>\n        based on their contention of congregational autonomy rather than on sympathy<br \/>\n        with Jesus&#8217; cause. Shortly thereafter the Hebron synagogue was destroyed<br \/>\n      by fire. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>unprecedented, \uc804\ub840 \uc5c6\ub294<\/p>\n<p>accede, \ub3d9\uc758\ud558\ub2e4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1718 &#8211; &sect;3 This same Sunday morning, Jesus declared<br \/>\n        a week&#8217;s holiday, urging all of his disciples to return to their homes<br \/>\n        or friends to rest their troubled souls and speak words of encouragement<br \/>\n        to their loved ones. He said: &quot;Go to your several places to play<br \/>\n        or fish while you pray for the extension of the kingdom.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><br \/>\n        <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>urge, \uc7ac\ucd09\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><br \/>\n      P.1718 &#8211; &sect;4 This week of rest enabled Jesus to visit many families<br \/>\n      and groups about the seaside. He also went fishing with David Zebedee<br \/>\n      on several occasions, and while he went about alone much of the time,<br \/>\n      there always lurked near by two or three of David&#8217;s most trusted messengers,<br \/>\n      who had no uncertain orders from their chief respecting the safeguarding<br \/>\n      of Jesus. There was no public teaching of any sort during this week of<br \/>\n    rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>safeguard, \ubcf4\ud638\ud558\ub2e4, \uc9c0\ud0a4\ub2e4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1718 &#8211; &sect;5 This was the week that Nathaniel and<br \/>\n      James Zebedee suffered from more than a slight illness. For three days<br \/>\n      and nights they were acutely afflicted with a painful digestive disturbance.<br \/>\n      On the third night Jesus sent Salome, James&#8217;s mother, to her rest, while<br \/>\n      he ministered to his suffering apostles. Of course Jesus could have instantly<br \/>\n      healed these two men, but that is not the method of either the Son or<br \/>\n      the Father in dealing with these commonplace difficulties and afflictions<br \/>\n      of the children of men on the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Never<br \/>\n      once, throughout all of his eventful life in the flesh, did Jesus engage<br \/>\n      in any sort <br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;0 of supernatural ministration to any member<br \/>\n        of his earth family or in behalf of any one of his immediate followers.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;1 Universe difficulties must be met and<br \/>\n        planetary obstacles must be encountered as a part of the experience training<br \/>\n        provided for the growth and development, the progressive perfection, of<br \/>\n        the evolving souls of mortal creatures. The spiritualization of the human<br \/>\n        soul requires intimate experience with the educational solving of a wide<br \/>\n        range of real universe problems. The animal nature and the lower forms<br \/>\n        of will creatures do not progress favorably in environmental ease. Problematic<br \/>\n        situations, coupled with exertion stimuli, conspire to produce those activities<br \/>\n        of mind, soul, and spirit which contribute mightily to the achievement<br \/>\n        of worthy goals of mortal progression and to the attainment of higher<br \/>\n    levels of spirit destiny.<\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">3. THE SECOND TIBERIAS CONFERENCE &#8211; P.1719<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;2 On May 16 the second conference at Tiberias<br \/>\n        between the authorities at Jerusalem and Herod Antipas was convened. Both<br \/>\n        the religious and the political leaders from Jerusalem were in attendance.<br \/>\n        The Jewish leaders were able to report to Herod that practically all the<br \/>\n        synagogues in both Galilee and Judea were closed to Jesus&#8217; teachings.<br \/>\n        A new effort was made to have Herod place Jesus under arrest, but he refused<br \/>\n        to do their bidding. On May 18, however, Herod did agree to the plan of<br \/>\n        permitting the Sanhedrin authorities to seize Jesus and carry him to Jerusalem<br \/>\n        to be tried on religious charges, provided the Roman ruler of Judea concurred<br \/>\n        in such an arrangement. Meanwhile, Jesus&#8217; enemies were industriously spreading<br \/>\n        the rumor throughout Galilee that Herod had become hostile to Jesus, and<br \/>\n        that he meant to exterminate all who believed in his teachings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><br \/>\n        <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;<\/font> convene &lt; con + venire (come), \ud68c\uc758\ub97c \uc5f4\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;3 On Saturday night, May 21, word reached<br \/>\n        Tiberias that the civil authorities at Jerusalem had no objection to the<br \/>\n        agreement between Herod and the Pharisees that Jesus be seized and carried<br \/>\n        to Jerusalem for trial before the Sanhedrin on charges of flouting the<br \/>\n        sacred laws of the Jewish nation. Accordingly, just before midnight of<br \/>\n        this day, Herod signed the decree which authorized the officers of the<br \/>\n        Sanhedrin to seize Jesus within Herod&#8217;s domains and forcibly to carry<br \/>\n        him to Jerusalem for trial. Strong pressure from many sides was brought<br \/>\n        to bear upon Herod before he consented to grant this permission, and he<br \/>\n        well knew that Jesus could not expect a fair trial before his bitter enemies<br \/>\n        at Jerusalem.<br \/>\n        <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;<\/font> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">4. SATURDAY NIGHT IN CAPERNAUM &#8211; P.1719<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;4 On this same Saturday night, in Capernaum<br \/>\n        a group of fifty leading citizens met at the synagogue to discuss the<br \/>\n        momentous question: &quot;What shall we do with Jesus?&quot; They talked<br \/>\n        and debated until after midnight, but they could not find any common ground<br \/>\n        for agreement. Aside from a few persons who inclined to the belief that<br \/>\n        Jesus might be the Messiah, at least a holy man, or perhaps a prophet,<br \/>\n        the meeting was divided into four nearly equal groups who held, respectively,<br \/>\n        the following views of Jesus:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>momentous, \uc911\ub300\ud55c<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;5 1. That he was a deluded and harmless<br \/>\n      religious fanatic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1719 &#8211; &sect;6 2. That he was a dangerous and designing<br \/>\n        agitator who might stir up rebellion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;1 3. That he was in league with devils,<br \/>\n        that he might even be a prince of devils.<br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;2 4. That he was beside himself, that he<br \/>\n    was mad, mentally unbalanced.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>delude &lt; de (force) ludere (play), \ub9dd\uc0c1\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;3 There was much talk about Jesus&#8217; preaching<br \/>\n        doctrines which were upsetting for the common people; his enemies maintained<br \/>\n        that his teachings were impractical, that everything would go to pieces<br \/>\n        if everybody made an honest effort to live in accordance with his ideas.<br \/>\n        And the men of many subsequent generations have said the same things.<br \/>\n        Many intelligent and well-meaning men, even in the more enlightened age<br \/>\n        of these revelations, maintain that modern civilization could not have<br \/>\n        been built upon the teachings of Jesus&#8211;and they are partially right.<br \/>\n        But all such doubters forget that a much better civilization could have<br \/>\n        been built upon his teachings, and sometime will be. This world has never<br \/>\n        seriously tried to carry out the teachings of Jesus on a large scale,<br \/>\n        notwithstanding that halfhearted attempts have often been made to follow<br \/>\n        the doctrines of so-called Christianity.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>on a large scale, \ub300\uaddc\ubaa8\ub85c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">5. THE EVENTFUL SUNDAY MORNING &#8211; P.1720<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;4 May 22 was an eventful day in the life<br \/>\n        of Jesus. On this Sunday morning, before daybreak, one of David&#8217;s messengers<br \/>\n        arrived in great haste from Tiberias, bringing the word that Herod had<br \/>\n        authorized, or was about to authorize, the arrest of Jesus by the officers<br \/>\n        of the Sanhedrin. The receipt of the news of this impending danger caused<br \/>\n        David Zebedee to arouse his messengers and send them out to all the local<br \/>\n        groups of disciples, summoning them for an emergency council at seven<br \/>\n        o&#8217;clock that morning. When the sister-in-law of Jude (Jesus&#8217; brother)<br \/>\n        heard this alarming report, she hastened word to all of Jesus&#8217; family<br \/>\n        who dwelt near by, summoning them forthwith to assemble at Zebedee&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n        And in response to this hasty call, presently there were assembled Mary,<br \/>\n        James, Joseph, Jude, and Ruth.<br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;5 At this early morning meeting Jesus imparted<br \/>\n        his farewell instructions to the assembled disciples; that is, he bade<br \/>\n        them farewell for the time being, knowing well that they would soon be<br \/>\n        dispersed from Capernaum. He directed them all to seek God for guidance<br \/>\n        and to carry on the work of the kingdom regardless of consequences. The<br \/>\n        evangelists were to labor as they saw fit until such time as they might<br \/>\n        be called. He selected twelve of the evangelists to accompany him; the<br \/>\n        twelve apostles he directed to remain with him no matter what happened.<br \/>\n        The twelve women he instructed to remain at the Zebedee house and at Peter&#8217;s<br \/>\n        house until he should send for them.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;6 Jesus consented to David Zebedee&#8217;s continuing<br \/>\n        his countrywide messenger service, and in bidding the Master farewell<br \/>\n        presently, David said: &quot;Go forth to your work, Master. Don&#8217;t let<br \/>\n        the bigots catch you, and never doubt that the messengers will follow<br \/>\n        after you. My men will never lose contact with you, and through them you<br \/>\n        shall know of the kingdom in other parts, and by them we will all know<br \/>\n        about you. Nothing that might happen to me will interfere with this service,<br \/>\n        for I have appointed first and second leaders, even a third. I am neither<br \/>\n        a teacher nor a preacher, but it is in my heart to do this, and none can<br \/>\n        stop me.&quot;<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>bigot, \ud3b8\uacac\uc744 \uac00\uc9c4 \uc790 (\uc5b4\uc6d0 \ubbf8\uc0c1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1720 &#8211; &sect;7 About 7:30 this morning Jesus began his<br \/>\n      parting address to almost one hundred believers who had crowded indoors<br \/>\n      to hear him. This was a solemn occasion for all present, but Jesus seemed<br \/>\n      unusually cheerful; he was once more <br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1721 &#8211; &sect;0 like his normal self. The seriousness<br \/>\n        of weeks had gone, and he inspired all of them with his words of faith,<br \/>\n        hope, and courage.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>parting address, \uc791\ubcc4 \uc778\uc0ac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">6. JESUS&#8217; FAMILY ARRIVES &#8211; P.1721<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1721 &#8211; &sect;1 It was about eight o&#8217;clock on this Sunday<br \/>\n        morning when five members of Jesus&#8217; earth family arrived on the scene<br \/>\n        in response to the urgent summons of Jude&#8217;s sister-in-law. Of all his<br \/>\n        family in the flesh, only one, Ruth, believed wholeheartedly and continuously<br \/>\n        in the divinity of his mission on earth. Jude and James, and even Joseph,<br \/>\n        still retained much of their faith in Jesus, but they had permitted pride<br \/>\n        to interfere with their better judgment and real spiritual inclinations.<br \/>\n        Mary was likewise torn between love and fear, between mother love and<br \/>\n        family pride. Though she was harassed by doubts, she could never quite<br \/>\n        forget the visit of Gabriel ere Jesus was born. The Pharisees had been<br \/>\n        laboring to persuade Mary that Jesus was beside himself, demented.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;<\/font>ere, before<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">They<br \/>\n        urged her to go with her sons and seek to dissuade him from further efforts<br \/>\n        at public teaching. They assured Mary that soon Jesus&#8217; health would break,<br \/>\n        and that only dishonor and disgrace could come upon the entire family<br \/>\n        as a result of allowing him to go on. And so, when the word came from<br \/>\n        Jude&#8217;s sister-in-law, all five of them started at once for Zebedee&#8217;s house,<br \/>\n        having been together at Mary&#8217;s home, where they had met with the Pharisees<br \/>\n        the evening before. They had talked with the Jerusalem leaders long into<br \/>\n        the night, and all were more or less convinced that Jesus was acting strangely,<br \/>\n        that he had acted strangely for some time. While Ruth could not explain<br \/>\n        all of his conduct, she insisted that he had always treated his family<br \/>\n        fairly and refused to agree to the program of trying to dissuade him from<br \/>\n        further work.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>sister-in-law, \ud615\uc218, \uc81c\uc218,<\/p>\n<p>at once, \ub2f9\uc7a5<\/p>\n<p>dissuade &lt; dis + suadere (\uc124\ub4dd), \ub9d0\ub9ac\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1721 &#8211; &sect;2 On the way to Zebedee&#8217;s house they talked<br \/>\n        these things over and agreed among themselves to try to persuade Jesus<br \/>\n        to come home with them, for, said Mary: &quot;I know I could influence<br \/>\n        my son if he would only come home and listen to me.&quot; James and Jude<br \/>\n        had heard rumors concerning the plans to arrest Jesus and take him to<br \/>\n        Jerusalem for trial. They also feared for their own safety. As long as<br \/>\n        Jesus was a popular figure in the public eye, his family allowed matters<br \/>\n        to drift along, but now that the people of Capernaum and the leaders at<br \/>\n        Jerusalem had suddenly turned against him, they began keenly to feel the<br \/>\n        pressure of the supposed disgrace of their embarrassing position.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>drift along, \ud45c\ub958\ud558\ub2e4, \ud758\ub7ec\uac00\ub2e4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1721 &#8211; &sect;3 They had expected to meet Jesus, take<br \/>\n        him aside, and urge him to go home with them. They had thought to assure<br \/>\n        him that they would forget his neglect of them&#8211;they would forgive and<br \/>\n        forget&#8211;if he would only give up the foolishness of trying to preach a<br \/>\n        new religion which could bring only trouble to himself and dishonor upon<br \/>\n        his family. To all of this Ruth would say only: &quot;I will tell my brother<br \/>\n        that I think he is a man of God, and that I hope he would be willing to<br \/>\n        die before he would allow these wicked Pharisees to stop his preaching.&quot;<br \/>\n        Joseph promised to keep Ruth quiet while the others labored with Jesus.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1721 &#8211; &sect;4 When they reached the Zebedee house,<br \/>\n        Jesus was in the very midst of delivering his parting address to the disciples.<br \/>\n        They sought to gain entrance to the house, but it was crowded to overflowing.<br \/>\n        Finally they established themselves on the back porch and had word passed<br \/>\n        in to Jesus, from person to person, so that it finally was whispered to<br \/>\n        him by Simon Peter, who interrupted his talking for the purpose, and who<br \/>\n        said: &quot;Behold, your mother and your brothers are outside, and they<br \/>\n        are very anxious to speak with you.&quot; Now it did not occur to his<br \/>\n      mother <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;0 how important was the giving of this<br \/>\n        parting message to his followers, neither did she know that his address<br \/>\n        was likely to be terminated any moment by the arrival of his apprehenders.<br \/>\n        She really thought, after so long an apparent estrangement, in view of<br \/>\n        the fact that she and his brothers had shown the grace actually to come<br \/>\n        to him, that Jesus would cease speaking and come to them the moment he<br \/>\n        received word they were waiting.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;1 It was just another of those instances<br \/>\n        in which his earth family could not comprehend that he must be about his<br \/>\n        Father&#8217;s business. And so Mary and his brothers were deeply hurt when,<br \/>\n        notwithstanding that he paused in his speaking to receive the message,<br \/>\n        instead of his rushing out to greet them, they heard his musical voice<br \/>\n        speak with increased volume: &quot;Say to my mother and my brothers that<br \/>\n        they should have no fear for me. The Father who sent me into the world<br \/>\n        will not forsake me; neither shall any harm come upon my family. Bid them<br \/>\n        be of good courage and put their trust in the Father of the kingdom. But,<br \/>\n        after all, who is my mother and who are my brothers?&quot; And stretching<br \/>\n        forth his hands toward all of his disciples assembled in the room, he<br \/>\n        said: &quot;I have no mother; I have no brothers. Behold my mother and<br \/>\n        behold my brethren! For whosoever does the will of my Father who is in<br \/>\n    heaven, the same is my mother, my brother, and my sister.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;2 And when Mary heard these words, she<br \/>\n        collapsed in Jude&#8217;s arms. They carried her out in the garden to revive<br \/>\n        her while Jesus spoke the concluding words of his parting message. He<br \/>\n        would then have gone out to confer with his mother and his brothers, but<br \/>\n        a messenger arrived in haste from Tiberias bringing word that the officers<br \/>\n        of the Sanhedrin were on their way with authority to arrest Jesus and<br \/>\n        carry him to Jerusalem. Andrew received this message and, interrupting<br \/>\n        Jesus, told it to him.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>sentinel, \ud30c\uc218 (\uc5b4\uc6d0 \ubbf8\uc0c1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;3 Andrew did not recall that David had<br \/>\n        posted some twenty-five sentinels about the Zebedee house, and that no<br \/>\n        one could take them by surprise; so he asked Jesus what should be done.<br \/>\n        The Master stood there in silence while his mother, having heard the words,<br \/>\n        &quot;I have no mother,&quot; was recovering from the shock in the garden.<br \/>\n        It was at just this time that a woman in the room stood up and exclaimed,<br \/>\n        &quot;Blessed is the womb that bore you and blessed are the breasts that<br \/>\n        nursed you.&quot; Jesus turned aside a moment from his conversation with<br \/>\n        Andrew to answer this woman by saying, &quot;No, rather is the one blessed<br \/>\n        who hears the word of God and dares to obey it.&quot;<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;4 Mary and Jesus&#8217; brothers thought that<br \/>\n      Jesus did not understand them, that he had lost interest in them, little<br \/>\n      realizing that it was they who failed to understand Jesus. Jesus fully<br \/>\n      understood how difficult it is for men to break with their past. He knew<br \/>\n      how human beings are swayed by the preacher&#8217;s eloquence, and how the conscience<br \/>\n      responds to emotional appeal as the mind does to logic and reason, but<br \/>\n      he also knew how far more difficult it is to persuade men to disown the<br \/>\n      past.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>disown, \ubd80\uc778\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1722 &#8211; &sect;5 It is forever true that all who may think<br \/>\n        they are misunderstood or not appreciated have in Jesus a sympathizing<br \/>\n        friend and an understanding counselor. He had warned his apostles that<br \/>\n        a man&#8217;s foes may be they of his own household, but he had hardly realized<br \/>\n        how near this prediction would come to apply to his own experience. Jesus<br \/>\n        did not forsake his earth family to do his Father&#8217;s work&#8211;they forsook<br \/>\n        him. Later on, after the Master&#8217;s death and resurrection, when James became<br \/>\n        connected with the early Christian movement, he suffered immeasurably <br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;0 as a result of his failure to enjoy this<br \/>\n        earlier association with Jesus and his disciples.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;1 In passing through these events, Jesus<br \/>\n        chose to be guided by the limited knowledge of his human mind. He desired<br \/>\n        to undergo the experience with his associates as a mere man. And it was<br \/>\n        in the human mind of Jesus to see his family before he left. He did not<br \/>\n        wish to stop in the midst of his discourse and thus render their first<br \/>\n        meeting after so long a separation such a public affair. He had intended<br \/>\n        to finish his address and then have a visit with them before leaving,<br \/>\n        but this plan was thwarted by the conspiracy of events which immediately<br \/>\n        followed.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>thwart, \ubc29\ud574\ud558\ub2e4, \uc88c\uc808\ud558\ub2e4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;2 The haste of their flight was augmented<br \/>\n        by the arrival of a party of David&#8217;s messengers at the rear entrance of<br \/>\n        the Zebedee home. The commotion produced by these men frightened the apostles<br \/>\n        into thinking that these new arrivals might be their apprehenders, and<br \/>\n        in fear of immediate arrest, they hastened through the front entrance<br \/>\n        to the waiting boat. And all of this explains why Jesus did not see his<br \/>\n    family waiting on the back porch.<\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;3 But he did say to David Zebedee as he<br \/>\n        entered the boat in hasty flight: &quot;Tell my mother and my brothers<br \/>\n        that I appreciate their coming, and that I intended to see them. Admonish<br \/>\n        them to find no offense in me but rather to seek for a knowledge of the<br \/>\n        will of God and for grace and courage to do that will.&quot;<br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font size=\"5\">7. THE HASTY FLIGHT &#8211; P.1723<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;4 And so it was on this Sunday morning,<br \/>\n        the twenty-second of May, in the year A.D. 29, that Jesus, with his twelve<br \/>\n        apostles and the twelve evangelists, engaged in this hasty flight from<br \/>\n        the Sanhedrin officers who were on their way to Bethsaida with authority<br \/>\n        from Herod Antipas to arrest him and take him to Jerusalem for trial on<br \/>\n        charges of blasphemy and other violations of the sacred laws of the Jews.<br \/>\n        It was almost half past eight this beautiful morning when this company<br \/>\n        of twenty-five manned the oars and pulled for the eastern shore of the<br \/>\n        Sea of Galilee.<br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;5 Following the Master&#8217;s boat was another<br \/>\n        and smaller craft, containing six of David&#8217;s messengers, who had instructions<br \/>\n        to maintain contact with Jesus and his associates and to see that information<br \/>\n        of their whereabouts and safety was regularly transmitted to the home<br \/>\n        of Zebedee in Bethsaida, which had served as headquarters for the work<br \/>\n        of the kingdom for some time. But Jesus was never again to make his home<br \/>\n        at the house of Zebedee. From now on, throughout the remainder of his<br \/>\n        earth life, the Master truly &quot;had not where to lay his head.&quot;<br \/>\n        No more did he have even the semblance of a settled abode.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"images\/h\/hol222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/h\/hol222.gif\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n      Sea of Galilee<\/p>\n<p>officer, \uad00\ub9ac<\/p>\n<p>on charges, \ubb34\uc2a8 \uc8c4\ubaa9\uc73c\ub85c<\/p>\n<p>man oars, \ub178\ub97c \uc813\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<p>pull for, \ud5a5\ud574 \ub178 \uc813\ub2e4.<\/p>\n<p>craft, \ubc30<\/p>\n<p>make his home, \uc9d1\uc73c\ub85c \uc0bc\ub2e4<\/p>\n<p>semblance, \ube44\uc2b7\ud55c \ubaa8\uc591<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;6 They rowed over to near the village of<br \/>\n        Kheresa, put their boat in the custody of friends, and began the wanderings<br \/>\n        of this eventful last year of the Master&#8217;s life on earth. For a time they<br \/>\n        remained in the domains of Philip, going from Kheresa up to Caesarea-Philippi,<br \/>\n        thence making their way over to the coast of Phoenicia.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1723 &#8211; &sect;7 The crowd lingered about the home of<br \/>\n        Zebedee watching these two boats make their way over the lake toward the<br \/>\n        eastern shore, and they were well started when the Jerusalem officers<br \/>\n        hurried up and began their search for Jesus. They refused to believe he<br \/>\n        had escaped them, and while Jesus and his party were <br \/>\n      <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1724 &#8211; &sect;0 journeying northward through Batanea,<br \/>\n    the Pharisees and their assistants spent almost a full week vainly searching<br \/>\n        for him in the neighborhood of Capernaum.<br \/>\n    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\">P.1724 &#8211; &sect;1 Jesus&#8217; family returned to their home<br \/>\n        in Capernaum and spent almost a week in talking, debating, and praying.<br \/>\n        They were filled with confusion and consternation. 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