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Brant Pitre
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November 20, 2018 - April 15, 2019
high priest, Caiaphas,
council of Jewish leaders known as the Sanhedrin.
Was it really blasphemy to claim to be the Messiah? Of course not.
he also implicitly claims to be divine.
Recall once again that simply claiming to be the Messiah was not blasphemy.
biblical law against blasphemy: “He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death” (Leviticus 24:16).
He seemed to be putting himself on an equal footing with the living God himself.”
But this is completely wrong. If we’ve learned anything in this book so far, it’s that Jesus’s teachings—especially the most mysterious ones—must be interpreted in their ancient Jewish context.
Instead, they are a deliberate quotation of Scripture.
If Jesus breathed his last breath with this psalm in mind, then these verses alone prove that he did not die thinking that God the Father had “hid his face” from him.
Instead, Psalm 22 shows that Jesus sees his suffering and death as a fulfillment of Scripture.
Even in his dying breath, Jesus poses one last riddle: the riddle of Psalm 22.
it is also the event that will trigger the conversion of “all the families of the nations” to the worship of the one God of Israel.
And so the prophecies begin to be fulfilled. Far from being evidence that Jesus died a failure, the cry of dereliction is evidence that he saw his death as the fulfillment of the prophecies that
Jesus’s words imply that he himself is the “temple” that will be destroyed and then “raised up” “in three days”
For now, the important point is that Jesus describes his passion and death as the destruction of a temple.
Clearly something momentous just happened. Nowhere else does John interrupt his Gospel like this to insist that what he is saying is based on eyewitness testimony.
but during the Jewish “feast of the Passover” (John 13:1).
A stream of blood and water, flowing out of the side of the Temple Mount.
He is not just the messianic son of God; he is the true Temple.
Jesus is the dwelling place of God on earth.
For if love covers a multitude of sins, then divine love—infinite love—covers an infinite multitude of sins. Even your sins. Even my sins. Indeed, that is what converted the
This is what we would call “resuscitation.”
“resurrection” (Greek anastasis) of Jesus’s “body”
But the ascension of Jesus into heaven clearly takes place after his bodily resurrection.
In other words, the resurrection of Jesus and his ascension into heaven are two different events.
The resurrection has to do with what happened to Jesus’s dead body as it lay in the tomb;
the ascension has to do with what happened to Jesus’s living body after it exited the tomb.
First, the resurrected Jesus has a body.
the resurrected Jesus has a transformed body.
now possesses new, extraordinary qualities.
The Gospel says very clearly that their eyes are “kept” from recognizing him (Luke 24:16).
In other words, the resurrected Jesus can change or veil his appearance.
the risen Jesus passes through the ...
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“glorified” body—one that has been radically “changed”
Instead, they meant that Jesus had been restored to bodily life—a new, glorified bodily life. And in this glorified body, Jesus would never die again. Ever.
Belief in the resurrection of Jesus did not spread because ancient people—Jewish or pagan—were any more gullible or credulous about miracles than are modern-day people.
the empty tomb.
how unlikely it would be for the discovery of the empty tomb to be attributed to a female disciple like Mary Magdalene if Jesus’s other disciples had wanted anyone to believe it.
in the first century AD, the testimony of women was widely regarded as unreliable.
they begin spreading the rumor that Jesus’s disciples “came by night and stole him away”
the Roman penalty for failing on guard duty was death
one of the most important but most overlooked.
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead was the fulfillment of Jewish Scripture.
the fulfillment of Scripture—
But what Scriptures did Jesus’s resurrection fulfill?
“the belly of Sheol” and “the Pit,” these are standard Old Testament terms for the realm of the dead
fainted within him, this is another way of saying that he died.
the story of Jonah is the story of his death and resurrection.
According to Jesus, it is not just his resurrection from the dead that will be a reason for believing in him. It is also the inexplicable conversion of the pagan nations of the world—the Gentiles.
