Yesterday we heard how Jacob and his big family got away from Laban and started the journey home. When Laban caught up with him, he and Jacob got into a quarrel and ended up making a covenant.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/gen.32.nlt
We turn to Job 19. In chapter 18, Bildad once again gave a speech about what happens to wicked people, and by implication, he said, “You're just getting what you deserve.” Job’s response in today’s chapter includes amazing revelations— considering that this is the earliest book in the Bible. Verses 23-27 can be compared with the second half of 1Corinthians 15.
Translation notes:
15 My servants and maids [even/0] consider me a stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.
16 When I call my servant, he doesn’t [even/0] come;
I have to plead with him!
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/job.19
In Mark 11, Jesus was welcomed in triumph in Jerusalem, he cursed
a fig tree and taught about prayer, and cleansed the temple of
merchant activity. Then he answered and confuted the chief priests
who challenged his authority to “do these things,” in particular,
taking their businesses out of the temple.
Translation notes:
1 Then Jesus began teaching them with stories [like this one]: “A man planted a vineyard. …
13 Later the leaders sent some Pharisees and supporters
of [king/0] Herod to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested.
16 When they handed [one/it] to him, he asked, “Whose
picture and title are stamped [here//on it]?”
27 PET God spoke of our three forefathers as men who still live and worship Him. …
As I modified the NLT: 26b Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses, ‘I am the God [Abraham worships//of Abraham], the God [Isaac worships], and the God [Jacob worships].’
In Lumina.Bible.org Constable quotes Lane:
“If the death of the patriarchs is the last word of their history, there has been a breach of the promises of God guaranteed by the [Abrahamic] covenant, and of which the formula ‘the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob’ is the symbol. It is in fidelity to his covenant that God will resurrect the dead.”
Using a present tense verb makes it obvious to the English-speaking listener that the three patriarchs are still living.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/mrk.12
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