2.35 Prologue to Jesus' Ministry

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Keynote ep: An introduction to the geo-political world of Jesus. I also discuss the many problems we have when attempting to reconcile the chronologies of the gospels. The synoptic gospels differ in the details. The big problem is with the gospel of John. We simply cannot reconcile the chronology of John with the synoptics.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.0	Episode 2.35. The prologue to Jesus ministry.
0:26.9	In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I explored the life of the intriguing John the Baptist.
0:35.3	The Gospels and historian Josephus attest that John had a significant fan base.
0:42.1	The Gospels downplay John's following. They try to demote him to a mere witness to Jesus.
0:50.1	This suggests that John's rival crusade was alive and kicking decades after his death.
0:57.0	John the Baptist and Jesus founded rival movements.
1:02.0	We can never know the realities of the relationship between the two.
1:07.0	The Gospels know that it would be easy to interpret Jesus as one of the Baptist's followers.
1:13.6	They emphasize that Jesus is superior in every way to the Baptist.
1:19.6	They manipulate the Baptist to have him deny what his own followers believed of him.
1:25.6	If Jesus was not actually a follower of the Baptist, he certainly
1:31.0	took notes from John's revival meetings. Both the Baptist and Jesus preach of an imminent judgment.
1:39.1	John is delirious in the prospect of a wrath that will strike even the pious. Righteous justice is upon us.
1:48.0	Jesus is more accommodating. Even sinners can be saved. God's love will ameliorate. He is justice with mercy.
1:58.0	John knows he is only a herald, proclaiming the greater one to come.
2:03.6	We have no idea who John thought that greater one might be.
2:08.6	As we know from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the many apocalyptic writers were undecided.
2:14.6	Perhaps it would be God himself. Perhaps there were two, a sion of the
2:21.1	house of David and a godly priest. Or perhaps an angelic or divine figure, the son of man.
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