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New Testament Notes 332-334

New Testament Notes 332-334

Last updated on: May 26, 2019 at 4:49 pm by Dan Peterson

New Testament Notes 332-334 2019-05-26T16:49:01-06:00 Dan Peterson

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The high priest tears his robe at the blasphemy of Jesus in this painting by Giotto (d. 1337) in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

Compare Matthew 26:55, 67-75; 27:1-2; Mark 14:49, 65-72; 15:1; Luke 19:47; 22:53, 63-65; John 2:19; 18:25-27

My longtime friend and colleague John W. Welch, who is not only a professor of law but a superb scholar of the Bible and antiquity, has published several items about the trial of Jesus. See the list here, for example.

“Отречение Петра” (2014, А.Н. Миронов)/”The Denial of Peter” (2014, A.N. Mironov)

(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)

Matthew 26:69-75

Mark 14:66-72

John 18:25-27

Compare Luke 22:56-72; John 18:15-18

In connection with this story, please read Elder Spencer W. Kimball’s defense of “Peter, My Brother.”

See, too, this discussion — and particularly, toward the end, the citation of John Hall’s argument that Jesus’s statement (that Peter would deny him) may not have been so much a prophecy as an order.

Christ before Pilate (The “Green Passion”)
Albrecht Dürer, 1503
Wikimedia Commons public domain

Compare Luke 22:66

There’s a certain black humor — perhaps intended, perhaps not — in John’s little detail about how the chief priests and elders decline to enter into the praetorium, lest they be ritually defiled just before the Passover while they’re engaged in orchestrating a judicial assassination.

“For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” (Hosea 6:6)

“Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” (Micah 6:6-8)

On a much lower level of importance: I grew up in a part-member family where — until, around the time of my mission, my father converted and my mother got more serious — coffee was regularly consumed by both the member and the non-member. There was a rather strange Church member whom we knew who would visit us, but who often declined to bring her children into the house lest they catch a whiff of coffee. Several times, she arrived to tell us with delight that one or the other of her daughters was about to have a baby — out of wedlock. When my mother once asked whether their being unmarried didn’t concern her a bit, she responded that the important thing was to bring the little spirits down from heaven and give them bodies. Working as a nurse in a hospital, she eventually abandoned her own husband and children to run off with one or her patients, but not before he had read the Book of Mormon through. I hope and expect that there’s an insanity defense in heaven.

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