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🗓️ 31 March 2019
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In John's account of the early ministry, Jesus flies all over the place. He steals the disciples Simon Peter and Andrew from the Baptist while in the Perea. In his first great sign, he turns water into wine at Cana, then finds the disciples Philip and Nathaniel. He cleanses the temple and debates Nicodemus. He is first recognised as Messiah by a Samaritan, a people derided by the Jews. Jesus gives us his first theology lesson. None of this is in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
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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 2.37. |
0:23.3 | Jesus all over the place. |
0:26.3 | John's account of the early ministry. |
0:29.6 | In the last episode of the history in the Bible, |
0:33.1 | I presented Act 1 of Jesus' ministry, |
0:36.5 | as the synoptics tell it. |
0:39.7 | Jesus is tempted by Satan. |
0:42.5 | Upon hearing that the Baptist has been arrested, Jesus flies back to Galilee, |
0:48.1 | where he acquires four disciples, the brothers Peter and Andrew, |
0:53.7 | and the brothers James and John. |
0:56.0 | He begins to preach. |
0:58.0 | In Mark and Luke, his inaugural sermon is given in a synagogue. |
1:04.0 | The Gospel of Matthew has Jesus preached to the masses on a mountain. |
1:10.0 | The Synoptic Gospels place Jesus in Galilee through all the early ministry, |
1:17.1 | with the rare day trip out of town. |
1:20.5 | The Gospel of John, on the other hand, has Jesus moving about all over the place, |
1:26.7 | from Judea to Galilee, back to Judea and again to |
1:31.0 | Galilee. In Act 1 of the ministry, John recounts only three incidents that the Synoptic |
1:38.6 | Gospels also mention. John has none of the parables that fill the accounts of the synoptic authors. |
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