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Jesus’ parable of the net in Matthew 13:47-50 is commonly read as a parable of indiscriminate inclusion: both good and bad people may come into the kingdom. For example, Hagner writes with respect to the phrase “fish of every kind”:The exaggerated inclusiveness of this phrase may be an intentional reflection of the universality of the invitation to accept the good news of the… (Read more...)
Why did the Jewish authorities hand Jesus over to Rome for crucifixion? It cannot have been because he was judged to have been a false prophet, a deceiver of the people, opposed to Torah, opposed to the temple, or even a messianic pretender. On the last point, Brant Pitre quotes the Spanish theologian Armand Puig I Tàrrech: ‘[N]ever in the history of the Jewish people had a messianic pretender,… (Read more...)
In some recent comments on a post about the salvation of “all Israel” Alfred encouraged me to look at the argument of Jason Staples that the “fulness of the nations” (Rom. 11:25) is a reference to the northern kingdom of Israel or Ephraim, and that the salvation of “all Israel” must consist in the reunification of the two kingdoms. Staples’ book is The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism… (Read more...)
I have been working through Brant Pitre’s rather too methodical and, in my view, tendentious (I know, the pot calling the kettle black) Jesus and Divine Christology, in which he makes a case for reading divine identity into certain of the words and deeds of Jesus.Pitre is interested in both the meaning of the passages concerned and the historical plausibility of the divine… (Read more...)
One of the supposed “riddles” discussed in the previous post was Jesus’ saying “No one is good except God alone.” In a comment, Gerard Jay makes the point that Matthew shifts the emphasis from the questionable goodness of Jesus to the unquestionable goodness of the Law—from the person to the action.In Mark and Luke, the rich man asks, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit the life of the… (Read more...)