89 chapter project: Matthew

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One heap of the curios on the 'isleside ... isolated by the legal priests ... well robed?

Thus tremendous fabrications ... cover to peak under ... covenant? Hidden well before our time ...

Mystery Os*Ite a great power of drover ... Irish'd ...
 
I mostly engage from memory and the conversation has helped me notice that I tend to conflate Matthew and Luke. Will try to keep focused on Matthew going forward.
 
BetteTheRed said:
The fact that both Matthew and Luke reference Mark and Q makes it easier to conflate them. Also, our Christmas habits don't help.
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Sometimes in church on Good Friday we read or recite "the seven last words from the cross." These are actually seven sayings and they can be traced back to different gospel accounts of the crucifixion.

I can think of five without looking anything up. Couldn't tell you which gospels the sayings come from.

I thirst.
It is over.
Woman, behold your son. Son, your mother.
Today I will see you in Paradise.
Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

Very similar conflating of the stories!
 
Okay, looked it up and found this:

The Sayings of Jesus on the cross are seven expressions biblically attributed to Jesus during his crucifixion. Traditionally, the brief sayings have been called "words". They are gathered from the four Canonical Gospels. Three of the sayings appear only in the Gospel of Luke and three only in the Gospel of John. Wikipedia

I missed these two:

My God, my God why have you forsaken me?
Into thy hands I commend my spirit.
 
Summary: Matthew 7: 1 - 29

There are 6 focus areas in this chapter.

1. Judging. Do not judge others, lest you be judged. This section also contains the admonition against looking at the speck in your brother's eye withot considering the plank in your own. And finally, do not give what is holy to the dogs or cast your pearls before swine.

2. Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and ye shall find. Who will give his son a stone when he asks for bread? Or a serpent when he asks for fish? For whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

3. The gate is narrow and difficult but leads to life.

4. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. You will know others by their fruits.

5. Not everyone who says to Jesus, "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. But those who do the will of God.

6. Hearing these sayings and heeding them is compared to the wise man who builds his house upon a rock. The foolish one ignores the sayings and builds his house upon the sand. And when Jesus ended these teachings, the people were astonished. For he taught as one having authority and not as the scribes.
 
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Reflection: Matthew 7

Here we come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount. I have found myself familiar with almost all of the verses in these three chapters, yet I never realized the Matthew account of Jesus' teachings was so long. This comes, I think, from focusing only on a lectionary length passage at any given time.

We do this in church, of course, and we did the same in small group bible study a few years ago. Possibly I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees, as the adage goes.

I am conscious of only scratching the surface of the chapters as I read them in this fashion (as I am doing for this thread) yet there seems to be benefit in taking a look at the bigger picture.

What would be the ideal way to engage with the Bible, I wonder?
 
Can a wise man be defined as one having the ideal of not reading into or knowing what's cryptic in dark smears on the page? Is that demon ich ... IHC?

Scratch creation once you drop to that level of the greatest errs? Something to learn from painfully and not comfortable to a greater host ... hoarders? Enoch is enough ... don't knock on excesses or you may be denied knowledge for not asking first! IO's ooze ... jinnetics ... is an upstanding study if you admire the unseen and essence there ...

Stored wisdom as hidden ... heiro gama? Darkness over our heads ... heavens de bete Zae ... for it cannot be explained ... the sheaving effect of greats leaps ... myth and mystery abounds ... given the moral limits of what we retained so far of the essence of wisdom ... as my grandfather stated "jumped up!" His favoured expletive on ignorance ... and his fore name was Jake ... I was the kid ... Jacobites?

There's potentially an occult myth there ... buried, unknown!
 
@Luce NDs Myth and mystery sounds good to me! I would be happy to respond to the rest of your post, but alas, I cannot decipher it.
 
paradox3 said:
@Luce NDs Myth and mystery sounds good to me! I would be happy to respond to the rest of your post, but alas, I cannot decipher it.
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Tis something dark about word ... requires a lifetime of digging ... I'm near the terminal ... abstract esse capes? Subduction may be involved ... to clear improper images from youth ... adults are mostly past learning and possessed about carry-over from adolescence ... when they believed all was about a helical, inclined plane as cranked down! Scroo-edged?

Some ner get beyond it ... sex and/or fixation with something or other ...

With me addiction to word and strange communications ... archaic poesy? I am Bic bounce ... quies and keys to GOOGLE, or other? Continuous seeking ... Jungian conception ... as wampum!

Bareskin or Ryesken ... its t' ricken ... tricky? Wrecked Shaman ... shadow of the former at the claymakers wheel ...
 
paradox3 said:
Oh? Can't say I ever noticed. :ROFLMAO:
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You may receive some note ... booked for later unravelling ... complements of the ancient ragman ... poor weavers due to the tigger ... Eire or hairy concept ... of the one with the Dark Velvet Band ... due to we being trained that we shouldn't extend thoughts as mental exercise ... prepare for worst Eddie ...

Image Joe BLZFX ... few get the PIX of brainstorms forming in the poor rills ... lesser folk?

Is there something rogue brewing there? This something escaping blind powers as richmen ... that small key hole ... Beaus UN?
 
My view of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is quite different from the apocalyptic one presented by John the Baptist earlier in Matthew's gospel. But perhaps an "end of time" theology could explain why we are not to worry about things like food, drink and clothing.

The rest of the teachings seem to relate to ordinary, ongoing time.
 
paradox3 said:
My view of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is quite different from the apocalyptic one presented by John the Baptist earlier in Matthew's gospel. But perhaps an "end of time" theology could explain why we are not to worry about things like food, drink and clothing.

The rest of the teachings seem to relate to ordinary, ongoing time.
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I don't think we need "end of time" theology to not worry about such things. Rather, I see Jesus' words more as a calling to trust in God during each and every present moment.
 
paradox3 said:
My view of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is quite different from the apocalyptic one presented by John the Baptist earlier in Matthew's gospel. But perhaps an "end of time" theology could explain why we are not to worry about things like food, drink and clothing.

The rest of the teachings seem to relate to ordinary, ongoing time.
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Nothing ordinary in the essence of the legend ...
 
paradox3 said:
Reflection: Matthew 7
What would be the ideal way to engage with the Bible, I wonder?
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I suspect that would differ from person to person - although I'm sure others would disagree with me.

For me, understanding the context of the words is important to pondering their message. I have a NSRV study bible that I like, as it provides a synopsis of history of the time of writing of each book, and has numerous footnotes that give more context & interpretations from the original languages.

It's also important to me to talk about my understanding with others who may have different perspective. I'm in a small advent study group at the moment (using The Prayer Bench resources) and am finding it useful and interesting - differing perspectives offered by a few women whose thoughts I value.
 
I once had an electronic bible that had each significant word tagged with ancient meanings in Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT) which allowed so many alternate understandings of each word. It was a Shakespearean eye opener in that if you ask what's in a word? You find it extensive ... ultimately some distance from what you were led to believe in meant in the past ... thus wide spread metaphorical meaning ... like Isaiah ... meaning light, lambda, or Hermes in the nature of the carrier of messages ... as in the conception of Christ in that light. The word then begins to flow as a geological rheid ...

In the brute sense of powers ... this light should be kept to a bare minimum and thus the parallel with a night of stars ... a sense that can be reinforced by reading the manuscripts of any of the biblical patriarchs.

In more recent years scholars as Erasmus expounded on the necessity of light intelligence ... which almost got him skewered by the powers of corruption. This may appear dark and occult and hard for hard cut stoics to learn ... but consider Machiavelli's tome on how to achieve power ... form the other perspective as a way to contravene corruption. Now to top this off the word "ham" means darkness ... as in someone hamming it up as satyr in dark forests of the psyche zone. Then "mac" has a similar background especially in the context of Mac Beth and sobriquet (nickname or devilish other construct as Nichee)?

Consider it extended allegory ... or a leg up on Jah ... as the mule named Midnight races part ... a Black Booty?

You may choose as you will but an open "hart" and soul is of vast assistance in great variance ... dear moi ... could that be like unhinged psyche ... flapper ...
 
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