A young seminary graduate was seeking to pastor his first church.
One pulpit committee requested an interview. As the student and the committee gathered together, the chairman began the questioning. “Young man, do you know your Bible?” The young man replied, “Yes sir. I know the Bible from front to back.” Another asked, “Do you know the stories and parables?” The candidate answered, “Oh yes! I know all the stories and parables.” Another committee member said, “Tell us one of the parables of Jesus—let’s say the parable of the Good Samaritan.”
And so he did. It went like this…
“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, who went down to Jericho by night and he fell among stony ground. And the thorns rose up and choked him nearly half to death. He said, ‘What shall I do?’
Then he said, ‘I shall arise and go to my father’s house.’ And he arose, and climbed up into a sycamore tree. The next day Solomon and his wife Gomorrah came by, and they carried him down to the ark for Moses to take care of him. And as he was going through the eastern gate into the ark, he caught his hair in a limb and he hung there for 40 days and 40 nights.
And afterwards, he hungered and the ravens came and fed him. The next day the three wise men came and carried him down to Nineveh. And when he got down there, he found Delilah sitting on the wall. He cried out, ‘Chunk her down, boys.’
And they said, ‘How many times shall we chunk her down, unto seven times?’ And he said, ‘Nay, but unto seventy times seven.’ So they chunked her down, 490 times. Then she burst asunder in their midst, and they picked up twelve baskets of her fragments. And they asked him, ‘Lord, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be?’”
The pulpit committee chairman said, “Folks, I think we ought to call him. I know he’s young, but he sure knows his Bible.”
The pastor was having a Q&A session with the congregation, and someone asked "Were all the 12 apostles Jews?" The pastor answered, "Yes, I think so. Except for Paul."
I kid you not.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
The pastor was having a Q&A session with the congregation, and someone asked "Were all the 12 apostles Jews?" The pastor answered, "Yes, I think so. Except for Paul."
The pastor was having a Q&A session with the congregation, and someone asked "Were all the 12 apostles Jews?" The pastor answered, "Yes, I think so. Except for Paul."
I kid you not.
Actually there are some that believe Paul is the 12th apostle replacing Judas. They take the scripture where Paul said he was an apostle born out of season.
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Actually there are some that believe Paul is the 12th apostle replacing Judas. They take the scripture where Paul said he was an apostle born out of season.
Well, I suppose there are some that believe he wasn't a Jew, too!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
"In addition Luke displayed an intimate knowledge of the Temple, more than any of the other gospel writers. When describing the announcement to Zacharias concerning the birth of John, Luke went into considerable detail describing the rotating selection of the Levitical priests for service according to their families. He further describes the position of the priest before the alter of incense, where the angel appeared to Zacharias (Luke 1:8-20). Only someone Jewish would be so familiar with the most intimate workings of the Temple, where no Gentile was allowed to go!"
"Finally for this message, I would like to draw our attention to the intimacy Luke had with Yeshua's mother. When relating the story of Yeshua, Luke does so primarily from Mary's perspective. In fact he even knew what she hid in her heart, as recorded in Luke 2:51. As close knit as the Jerusalem Messianic community was, and as difficult as it must have been for Gentiles to have gotten into the "inner circle," it seems highly unlikely that Luke could have gotten that close to Mary if he was a Gentile."
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