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🗓️ 28 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:12.9 | Yesterday, we read Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, and today we jump back into his |
0:16.6 | second missionary journey. He leaves Athens and makes the two-day trip to Corinth. There, he meets |
0:21.7 | Aquila and Priscilla, a married couple who have just moved back from Italy because they were |
0:25.8 | forced out of Rome. They're tentmakers by trade, which happens to be how Paul makes a living too. |
0:31.3 | He probably makes tents Sunday to Thursday, then on Saturday he heads to the synagogue to do some |
0:35.5 | reasoning, as is his way. |
0:41.7 | When Paul and Silas finally make it to Corinth, Paul is shaking out his tunic at the Corinthian Jews. |
0:43.0 | You may remember that Jesus told the apostles to shake the dust off their feet in the towns |
0:47.0 | of the people who rejected them. |
0:48.5 | That's in Matthew 10. |
0:50.0 | And if you were with us in the Old Testament, the prophet Nehemiah shook out his tunic |
0:53.7 | for a similar |
0:54.3 | reason in Chapter 5. |
0:55.9 | This shaking out is a dismissive gesture. |
0:58.4 | It's the, by Felicia, of the Bible. |
1:01.0 | Paul has done all he can do. |
1:02.4 | He shared the gospel with them, and they're outright rejecting it. |
1:05.4 | So while he's in Corinth, he's going to focus on talking to the Gentiles there instead. What Jesus said about shaking the dust off and what Paul does here, |
1:13.3 | these actions are location-specific. |
1:15.7 | This isn't a dismissal of the Jews at large. |
1:18.1 | Even by the end of the chapter, other Jews have come to Christ. |
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