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153:3.1 Many were the questions asked [[Jesus]] during this after [[meeting]]. Some were asked by his [[perplexed]] [[disciples]], but more were asked by caviling unbelievers who sought only to [[embarrass]] and entrap him.

153:3.1 Many were the questions asked [[Jesus]] during this after [[meeting]]. Some were asked by his [[perplexed]] [[disciples]], but more were asked by caviling unbelievers who sought only to [[embarrass]] and entrap him.

153:3.2 One of the [[visiting]] [[Pharisees]], mounting a lampstand, shouted out this question: " You tell us that you are the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life]. How can you give us your [[flesh]] to eat or your [[blood]] to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out? " And [[Jesus]] answered this question, saying: " I did not teach you that my [[flesh]] is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life] nor that my [[blood]] is the [[water]] thereof. But I did say that my life in the flesh is a [[bestowal]] of the bread of heaven. The [[fact]] of the [[Word of God]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowed in the flesh] and the [[phenomenon]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] subject to the will of [[God]], constitute a [[reality]] of [[experience]] which is [[equivalent]] to the [[divine]] sustenance. You cannot eat my [[flesh]] nor can you drink my [[blood]], but you can become [[one]] in [[spirit]] with me even as I am one in spirit with [[the Father]]. You can be nourished by the [[eternal]] [[word]] of God, which is indeed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life], and which has been [[bestowed]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] flesh; and you can be watered in [[soul]] by the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]], which is truly the [[water]] of life. [[The Father]] has sent me into the world to show how he [[desires]] to indwell and direct all men; and I have so lived this life in the [[flesh]] as to [[inspire]] all men likewise ever to seek to [[know]] and [[Doing the will of God|do the will of the indwelling heavenly Father]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_6]

153:3.2 One of the [[visiting]] [[Pharisees]], mounting a lampstand, shouted out this question: " You tell us that you are the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life]. How can you give us your [[flesh]] to eat or your [[blood]] to drink? What avail is your teaching if it cannot be carried out? " And [[Jesus]] answered this question, saying: " I did not teach you that my [[flesh]] is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life] nor that my [[blood]] is the [[water]] thereof. But I did say that my life in the flesh is a [[bestowal]] of the bread of heaven. The [[fact]] of the [[Word of God]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowed in the flesh] and the [[phenomenon]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] subject to the will of [[God]], constitute a [[reality]] of [[experience]] which is [[equivalent]] to the [[divine]] sustenance. You cannot eat my [[flesh]] nor can you drink my [[blood]], but you can become [[one]] in [[spirit]] with me even as I am one in spirit with [[the Father]]. You can be nourished by the [[eternal]] [[word]] of God, which is indeed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_of_Life bread of life], and which has been [[bestowed]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] flesh; and you can be watered in [[soul]] by the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]], which is truly the [[water]] of life. [[The Father]] has sent me into the world to show how he [[desires]] to indwell and direct all men; and I have so lived this life in the [[flesh]] as to [[inspire]] all men likewise ever to seek to [[know]] and [[Doing the will of God|do the will of the indwelling heavenly Father]]. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_6]

153:3.3 Then one of the [[Jerusalem]] [[spies]] who had been [[observing]] [[Jesus]] and his [[apostles]], said: " We notice that neither you nor your [[apostles]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism wash your hands] properly before you eat bread. You must well know that such a [[practice]] as eating with defiled and unwashed hands is a [[transgression]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah the law] of the [[elders]]. Neither do you properly wash your drinking cups and eating vessels. Why is it that you show such disrespect for the [[traditions]] of the [[Ancestors|fathers]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law the laws] of our [[elders]]? "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_mark#Chapter_7]] And when [[Jesus]] heard him speak, he answered: " Why is it that you [[transgress]] the commandments of God by the laws of your [[tradition]]? The commandment says, `Honor your [[father]] and your [[mother]],' and directs that you [[share]] with them your substance if [[necessary]]; but you enact a law of tradition which [[permit]]s undutiful children to say that the [[money]] wherewith the [[parents]] might have been assisted has been `given to [[God]].' The [[law]] of the [[elders]] thus relieves such crafty [[children]] of their [[responsibility]], notwithstanding that the [[children]] subsequently use all such monies for their own [[comfort]]. Why is it that you in this way make void the commandment by your own [[tradition]]? Well did [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah] [[prophesy]] of you [[hypocrites]], saying: `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.'[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Isaiah#Chapter_.29]  

153:3.3 Then one of the [[Jerusalem]] [[spies]] who had been [[observing]] [[Jesus]] and his [[apostles]], said: " We notice that neither you nor your [[apostles]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism wash your hands] properly before you eat bread. You must well know that such a [[practice]] as eating with defiled and unwashed hands is a [[transgression]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah the law] of the [[elders]]. Neither do you properly wash your drinking cups and eating vessels. Why is it that you show such disrespect for the [[traditions]] of the [[Ancestors|fathers]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law the laws] of our [[elders]]? "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_mark#Chapter_7]] And when [[Jesus]] heard him speak, he answered: " Why is it that you [[transgress]] the commandments of God by the laws of your [[tradition]]? The commandment says, `Honor your [[father]] and your [[mother]],' and directs that you [[share]] with them your substance if [[necessary]]; but you enact a law of tradition which [[permit]]s undutiful children to say that the [[money]] wherewith the [[parents]] might have been assisted has been `given to [[God]].' The [[law]] of the [[elders]] thus relieves such crafty [[children]] of their [[responsibility]], notwithstanding that the [[children]] subsequently use all such monies for their own [[comfort]]. Why is it that you in this way make void the commandment by your own [[tradition]]? Well did [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah Isaiah] [[prophesy]] of you [[hypocrites]], saying: `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.'[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Isaiah#Chapter_.29]  

153:3.4 " You can see how it is that you desert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments the commandment] while you hold fast to the [[tradition]] of men. Altogether willing are you to [[reject]] the [[word]] of [[God]] while you maintain your own [[traditions]]. And in many other ways do you [[dare]] to set up your own teachings above [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah the law] and [[Hebrew Prophets|the prophets]. "

153:3.4 " You can see how it is that you desert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments the commandment] while you hold fast to the [[tradition]] of men. Altogether willing are you to [[reject]] the [[word]] of [[God]] while you maintain your own [[traditions]]. And in many other ways do you [[dare]] to set up your own teachings above [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah the law] and [[Hebrew Prophets|the prophets]. "

153:3.5 [[Jesus]] then directed his remarks to all present. He said: " But hearken to me all of you. It is not that which enters into the mouth that [[spiritually]] defiles the man, but rather that which proceeds out of the mouth and from the [[heart]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_7] But even [[the apostles]] failed fully to grasp the [[meaning]] of his [[words]], for [[Simon Peter]] also asked him: " Lest some of your hearers be unnecessarily [[offended]], would you [[explain]] to us the [[meaning]] of these [[words]]? " And then said [[Jesus]] to Peter: " Are you also hard of [[understanding]]? Know you not that every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up? Turn now your [[attention]] to those who would [[know]] the [[truth]]. You cannot [[compel]] men to [[love]] the [[truth]]. Many of these teachers are blind guides. And you know that, if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_6] But hearken while I tell you the [[truth]] concerning those [[things]] which [[morally]] defile and [[spiritually]] contaminate men. I [[declare]] it is not that which enters the [[body]] by the mouth or gains [[access]] to the [[mind]] through the eyes and ears, that defiles the man. Man is only defiled by that [[evil]] which may originate within the [[heart]], and which finds [[expression]] in the [[words]] and [[deeds]] of such unholy [[persons]]. Do you not know it is from the [[heart]] that there come forth [[evil]] [[thoughts]], wicked projects of [[murder]], [[theft]], and [[adulteries]], together with [[jealousy]], [[pride]], [[anger]], [[revenge]], railings, and [[false]] [[witness]]? And it is just such [[things]] that defile men, and not that they eat bread with [[ceremonially]] unclean hands. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_15]

153:3.5 [[Jesus]] then directed his remarks to all present. He said: " But hearken to me all of you. It is not that which enters into the mouth that [[spiritually]] defiles the man, but rather that which proceeds out of the mouth and from the [[heart]]. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_7] But even [[the apostles]] failed fully to grasp the [[meaning]] of his [[words]], for [[Simon Peter]] also asked him: " Lest some of your hearers be unnecessarily [[offended]], would you [[explain]] to us the [[meaning]] of these [[words]]? " And then said [[Jesus]] to Peter: " Are you also hard of [[understanding]]? Know you not that every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up? Turn now your [[attention]] to those who would [[know]] the [[truth]]. You cannot [[compel]] men to [[love]] the [[truth]]. Many of these teachers are blind guides. And you know that, if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_6] But hearken while I tell you the [[truth]] concerning those [[things]] which [[morally]] defile and [[spiritually]] contaminate men. I [[declare]] it is not that which enters the [[body]] by the mouth or gains [[access]] to the [[mind]] through the eyes and ears, that defiles the man. Man is only defiled by that [[evil]] which may originate within the [[heart]], and which finds [[expression]] in the [[words]] and [[deeds]] of such unholy [[persons]]. Do you not know it is from the [[heart]] that there come forth [[evil]] [[thoughts]], wicked projects of [[murder]], [[theft]], and [[adulteries]], together with [[jealousy]], [[pride]], [[anger]], [[revenge]], railings, and [[false]] [[witness]]? And it is just such [[things]] that defile men, and not that they eat bread with [[ceremonially]] unclean hands. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_15]

153:3.6 The [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] commissioners of the [[Jerusalem]] [[Sanhedrin]] were now almost [[convinced]] that [[Jesus]] must be [[Arrest|apprehended]] on a charge of [[blasphemy]] or on one of flouting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law sacred law] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]; wherefore their efforts to involve him in the discussion of, and possible attack upon, some of the traditions of the elders, or so-called oral laws of the nation. No matter how scarce [[water]] might be, these [[traditionally]] [[enslaved]] Jews would never fail to go through with the required [[ceremonial]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism washing of the hands] before every meal. It was their [[belief]] that " it is better to die than to [[transgress]] the commandments of the [[elders]]. " The [[spies]] asked this question because it had been reported that [[Jesus]] had said, " [[Salvation]] is a matter of clean [[hearts]] rather than of clean hands. " But such [[beliefs]], when they once become a part of one's [[religion]], are hard to get away from. Even many years after this day the [[Apostle Peter]] was still held in the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to many of these [[traditions]] about things clean and unclean, only being finally delivered by [[experiencing]] an [[extraordinary]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream vivid] [[dream]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.10] All of this can the better be [[understood]] when it is recalled that these Jews looked upon eating with unwashed hands in the same light as [[Prostitution|commerce with a harlot]], and both were equally punishable by [[excommunication]].

153:3.6 The [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] commissioners of the [[Jerusalem]] [[Sanhedrin]] were now almost [[convinced]] that [[Jesus]] must be [[Arrest|apprehended]] on a charge of [[blasphemy]] or on one of flouting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law sacred law] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]; wherefore their efforts to involve him in the discussion of, and possible attack upon, some of the traditions of the elders, or so-called oral laws of the nation. No matter how scarce [[water]] might be, these [[traditionally]] [[enslaved]] Jews would never fail to go through with the required [[ceremonial]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism washing of the hands] before every meal. It was their [[belief]] that " it is better to die than to [[transgress]] the commandments of the [[elders]]. " The [[spies]] asked this question because it had been reported that [[Jesus]] had said, " [[Salvation]] is a matter of clean [[hearts]] rather than of clean hands. " But such [[beliefs]], when they once become a part of one's [[religion]], are hard to get away from. Even many years after this day the [[Apostle Peter]] was still held in the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to many of these [[traditions]] about things clean and unclean, only being finally delivered by [[experiencing]] an [[extraordinary]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream vivid] [[dream]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.10] All of this can the better be [[understood]] when it is recalled that these Jews looked upon eating with unwashed hands in the same light as [[Prostitution|commerce with a harlot]], and both were equally punishable by [[excommunication]].

153:3.7 Thus did [[the Master]] elect to [[discuss]] and [[expose]] the [[folly]] of the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism rabbinic system of rules and regulations] which was represented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah oral law]—the [[traditions]] of the [[elders]], all of which were regarded as more [[sacred]] and more binding upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews] than even the teachings of the [[Scriptures]]. And [[Jesus]] [[spoke]] out with less reserve because he knew the hour had come when he could do nothing more to prevent an open rupture of [[relations]] with these [[religious]] [[leaders]].

153:3.7 Thus did [[the Master]] elect to [[discuss]] and [[expose]] the [[folly]] of the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism rabbinic system of rules and regulations] which was represented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah oral law]—the [[traditions]] of the [[elders]], all of which were regarded as more [[sacred]] and more binding upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews] than even the teachings of the [[Scriptures]]. And [[Jesus]] [[spoke]] out with less reserve because he knew the hour had come when he could do nothing more to prevent an open rupture of [[relations]] with these [[religious]] [[leaders]].

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[[Category:Paper 153 - The Crisis at Capernaum]]

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