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Quirinius was governor in Syria in AD 6–7, which would place Christ’s birth considerably later than Matthew’s Gospel claims (inasmuch as Herod the Great died in 4 BC).
Though “son of man” is simply a good Semitic idiom meaning “a man,” by the first century it had long served as the name of a mysterious apocalyptic or eschatological figure (as in the one “like a son of man” who rides in the chariot of God in Ezekiel), and as Christ uses it in the Gospels it should clearly be read as a distinctive prophetic title (though not one whose precise significance can be ascertained).
Glory 1:14, 2:11, 5:41, 44, 7:18, 8:51, 54, 11:40, 12:41, 43, 9:24, 11:4, 12:28, 13:31-32, 14:13, 15:8, 16:14, 17:1, 4-5, 24,
Archbishop William Temple: doctrine is less important to the individual Christian than is trust in Christ.
"Apostle" does not appear here, and disciples are not *called.*
inauguration
18Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but whoever seeks the glory of the one who has sent him, this man is true, and in him is no injustice.
most translations, quietly
different word from v. 35
Other versions: disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. Most versions have the Jews who were with him also weeping.
“Have I not told you that if you have faith you will see God’s glory?”
the crowd
“The hour has arrived when the Son of Man is glorified.
whoever hates his soul in this cosmos will preserve it for life in the Age.
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32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will drag everyone to me.”
glory
Gk. aorist past tense
glorified,
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Gk. aorist past tense
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Not about pur own desires, but only for God's glory, see 15:7-8.
glorified:
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“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that the Son might glorify you,
4On earth I glorified you by completing the work that you have given me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me by your side with that glory I had by your side before the cosmos was.
vv. 7-9: An ever growing multiplication of God's glory, as each one responds to Christ
the glory you have given me,
my glory,
Temple: the cross is the bond between Jesus and God, the atainment if that fellowship of snd
glory
Find the quo vadis story of Peter escaping from Rome and meeting Jesus on the way: Quo vadis, domine?
The end of every life devoted to Christ is God's glory
There is little doubt among scholars that the episode of the woman taken in adultery was not written by the same hand that produced the surrounding text.
It is not found in the earliest manuscripts of John, or in any Greek or Latin text still extant from before the late fourth century.
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in late antiquity—Jewish, Christian, or pagan—it would have been far more scandalous than commendable in most eyes for Jesus to have allowed an adulteress to go away not only unpunished, but entirely without rebuke.
An argument against being a late addition.
there is good reason to think the episode may in fact be drawn from an older narrative source than the Gospel itself:
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Didymus the Blind and Jerome mention the tale
It seems that the story was something of a freely floating tradition,
The Gospel clearly reaches a natural conclusion at the end of chapter twenty; chapter twenty-one is, most scholars believe, a slightly later addition to the text, a sort of theological (and rather dreamlike and lovely) coda.
Agabus
So who are the Romans?
