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A Gentle Ramble Through the Bible - Class 111
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The Greatest Commandment
The religious leaders are pulling out all the stops to trap Jesus, bring him up on charges (probably heresy or inciting violence or both), and then sentence him to death.
First they try to get him to choose between compassion or the very clear Law requiring death for adulterers. They catch a woman in the act of adultery, drag her to Jesus and force him to choose. What do you think he chooses?
Jesus completely loses patience with them. The whole rest of the chapter is an “in your face” argument in which Jesus tells the religious leaders that they do not even know God! He winds up telling them, “Before Abraham was born, I AM!” Those are definitely fighting words. They pick up stones to kill him immediately.
Matthew 8:18-22; 11:20-30; 18:1-5; 22:34-40
Mark 9:33-41; 12:28-34
Luke 9:46-62; 10:1-28
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