Yesterday we heard about Jacob wrestling all night with a mysterious heavenly figure, and about Jacob's reunion with
Esau.
Translation notes:
17 But if you don’t agree to be circumcised, we will take [Dinah/her] and be on our way.”
30 Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have
ruined me! You’ve made me stink among all the people of
this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are
so few [, and now//that] they will join forces and crush us. I will be
ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”
15 And Jacob named the place Bethel (which means “house of God”), because God had spoken to him [again/0] there.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/gen.34.nlt
We turn to Job 20 which is Zophar’s second response to Job. In Job chapter 19 responded to Bildad's second speech. Job expressed amazing belief that he would see his redeemer, and even after death he speaks of seeing God in his body. This knowledge is remarkable, and looks forward to Paul's teaching in 1 Cor 15.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/job.20
We turn for the second time to Mark 12. Yesterday in the first half of Mark 12, Jesus told a pointed parable against the Jewish religious leaders, then he went on to refute the Sadducees. Today I will repeat a few verses, starting in verse 24.
Translation note:
26 “But now, as to whether the dead will be raised—
haven’t you ever read about this in the writings of Moses, in
the story of the burning bush? Long after Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob had died, God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 27 So he is
the God of the living, not the dead. You have made a serious
error.”
In my reading in the 019, I modified the translation like this, “I am the God Abraham worships… (present tense).” While this is justified in stating Jesus’ meaning at that point in the discourse, it is going too far in translating the Hebrew and Greek of the Old Testament passage. Jesus’ point is that the continuing relationship of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is implicit in God’s statement. So for me to make it explicit in the translation is going a bit too far.
37 Since David himself called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ how can the Messiah [just/0] be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with great delight.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/mrk.12
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