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Interesting that Jesus went to Lebanon (Tyre/Sidon).  I don't think of him as traveling outside Israel. What an odd thing that initially Jesus ignores the Cannanite woman. They had hardly arrived when a Canaanite woman came down from the hills and pleaded, "Mercy, Master, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly afflicted by an evil spirit." Jesus ignored her. The disciples came and complained, "Now she's bothering us. Would you please take care of her? She's driving us crazy."  Jesus refused, telling them, "I've got my hands full dealing with the lost sheep of Israel." -Matthew 15:22-24 BBC interprets the scene this way: "Speaking to Jesus, she addressed Him as the Lord, the Son of David, a title which the Jews used in speaking of the Messiah. Although Jesus was the Son of David, a Gentile had no right to approach Him on that basis. That is why He did not answer her at first." 15:23   His disciples came and urged Him to

Pro 19:2  To act without knowing how you function is not good; and if you rush ahead, you will miss your goal.  -CJB Pro 19:2  Even zeal is not good without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily sins.-HSCB Pro 19:11  A person's insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense. -HSCB Pro 19:11  A person's insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense. "A wise man will observe these two rules about his anger: 1. Not to be over-hasty in his resentments: Discretion teaches us to defer our anger, to defer the admission of it till we have thoroughly considered all the merits of the provocation, seen them in a true light and weighed them in a just balance; and then to defer the prosecution of it till there be no danger of running into any indecencies. Plato said to his servant, “I would beat thee, but that I am angry.” Give it time, and it will cool."-Matthew Henry Pro 19:15  Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy pe

First Reading Impressions: Resurrection Beliefs Why did Herod think Jesus was John raised from the dead?  Was he serious? Were “raisings” so common or the belief in them common?  It makes me wonder about Christ’s resurrection in terms of people just throwing those terms around. Clarke: " He is risen from the dead - From this we may observe: 1. That the resurrection of the dead was a common opinion among the Jews; and 2. That the materiality of the soul made no part of Herod’s creed." What exactly did the Jews commonly believe about resurrection? *Sad that such evil is rampant in the world.  John is killed because of a young woman’s wish!   It is in many ways as evil as a shooting spree if not more premeditated, yet the severity of the injustice of this crime fails to register with me  because it’s such a familiar story.  John was  a great man—what a petty reason to take a life! *Jesus seems to want to get away by himself after learning about John.  H