From f7ddcb8bdc1867b0dfeb2cc76dc6930a8ac74da9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:52:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Luke=209:1=E2=80=939?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- content/bible_journal/luke_9:1-9.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_9:1-9.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_9:1-9.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_9:1-9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af3e1a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_9:1-9.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 9:1–9" +date = "2022-11-28" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.1-9) + +Jesus calls the Twelve together and sends them out to preach His message to the +villages throughout the area. While they are doing that, He gives them +authority to cast out demons and heal diseases. These signs are there to prove +to the people that these men are teaching the true things of God. They are also +to take no provisions for their travels, but to rely on the hospitality of +those who hear them. This way, they will rely on God instead of their own +might, thus proving to themselves that they are doing God's work. + +The disciples were instructed to not wear out their welcome by staying in many +different houses in a village, but keep to just one before moving on. This +helps ensure that they will reach as many different villages and towns as +possible. However, if no one accepts their message, they are to leave +immediately, shaking the dust off their feet as they go. This is a symbolic act +that the Pharisees would do as they left Gentile lands to return home, removing +any possible defilement they may have picked up during their travels. For the +disciples to do this in Jewish towns would be to say that those towns were not +truly part of God's people. + +Around this time, the report of Jesus has reached Herod the tetrarch. He was +the Roman governor over Galilee, the region Jesus has spent most of His time +ministering so far. However, he was getting a garbled report because some +people thought that Jesus was John the Baptist raised from the dead, or Elijah. +Herod didn't believe in a resurrection, it seems, but he did want to know who +could cause such reports as this. This may be a strange place to put this +detail for Luke to put in his narrative, but it is a point that will come up +again much later in the book. + +* * * + +Help us to preach Your word to the world, standing firm on the truth even when +no one wants to hear it.