2.36 Jesus in Galilee

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode presents Jesus' earliest ministry as the synoptic gospels tell it. Straight after his baptism by John, Jesus is tempted by Satan in the wilderness near the Dead Sea. He passes with flying colours. You know that quote "Get the behind me Satan"? It's not here. When Jesus learns that the Baptist has been arrested, he flies back to Galilee. According to Mark and Matthew, Jesus summons two sets of two brothers as his first followers. Mark and Luke describes Jesus first act as a sermon in a synagogue. Matthew has a much more spectacular debut: the Sermon on the Mount. Luke provides a very different version of that sermon. We also hear the Lord's Prayer. Catholics and Protestants have different ideas of what that is.

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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 2.36, Jesus in Galilee.
0:25.7	Two episodes ago, we left Jesus baptized in the Jordan and acclaimed as the Son of God.
0:33.5	In this episode, I'll follow the life of Jesus as the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke related.
0:42.3	You can divide Jesus' ministry into three acts.
0:46.3	In the first, he is tempted by Satan, acquires four disciples, and performs his inaugural sermon.
0:55.0	In the second, he preaches throughout Galilee, with the occasional side-trip north.
1:01.0	In the third act, he slowly travels south from Galilee to meet his destiny in Jerusalem.
1:08.0	Only the Synoptic Gospels provide the opening scene of Act 1 of Jesus' ministry,
1:15.2	The Temptation.
1:16.8	The Gospel of John is silent.
1:20.1	Jesus has been baptised by John in the Jordan River, just north of the Dead Sea, far from Galilee.
1:34.3	The Jordan was the boundary between Judea and the area of the area of the Dead Sea, far from Galilee. The Jordan was the boundary between Judea and the area called the Perea, run by Herod Antipas. The Gospels are clear that John the Baptist work, and Jesus was baptised, not on the Judean side of the river, but the Perian. I think that the Gospels
1:47.0	are making a point to emphasise the connection between Jesus and the Baptist. Herod Antipas
1:54.1	ruled Jesus Galilee, as well as John's Perea. Two cousins ministering in two territories, both run by the same ruler.
2:03.6	I see a metaphor here. Jesus is tested by no less than Satan. In previous episodes, I've
2:13.6	covered at length how the figure of Satan only appeared as the source of evil and prince of demons in the two centuries before Jesus when the Jews lived under the Greeks.
2:26.8	In Old Testament times, Satan is simply one of God's bureaucrats.
2:32.5	To catch up on how the Jews created Satan, have a listen to my
2:36.6	episode 2.14, grappling with the Greeks. Jubilees reconstructs Judaism. That Satan is introduced so
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