Difference between revisions of "Where are you from?"
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<p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Where did Jesus come from? Which synagogue did he belong to? What rabbis had taught him the scriptures? What was his background?</p> | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Where did Jesus come from? Which synagogue did he belong to? What rabbis had taught him the scriptures? What was his background?</p> | ||
<p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Jesus himself gave us the simple answer to this question. He said,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="red">'I came from the Father'</font>.</p> | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Jesus himself gave us the simple answer to this question. He said,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="red">'I came from the Father'</font>.</p> | ||
− | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: | + | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">He was not from the Nazareth synagogue. They had in fact thrown him out of it. Nor, in the sense that really mattered, was he a prophet from Galilee. He was not even from the land of Israel or the Jewish people in the final analysis. He was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>FROM GOD</b>. That was the only source that really counted.</p> |
<p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">The same was true of John the Baptist<font color="green">. 'There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.'</font></p> | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">The same was true of John the Baptist<font color="green">. 'There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.'</font></p> | ||
<p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Peter inwardly knew and understood this and expressed his faith in the familiar words<font color="green">, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How did he know this? In the words of Jesus:<font color="red">"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.'</font></p> | <p style="font-family: TmsRmn; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Peter inwardly knew and understood this and expressed his faith in the familiar words<font color="green">, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How did he know this? In the words of Jesus:<font color="red">"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.'</font></p> |