My Sunday Scripture 2009.7.26
After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias). A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little (bit)." One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many? Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world." Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
Saint John 6:1-15.
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My Reading Notes:
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I think my feeling would very much be the same with the crowd. I would think Jesus is indeed the prophet to come. Men are created, but now the Creator had send his son to the created, to tell them the fact. And one more think worth thinking: Why did Jesus refuse to be the king of Jews? Why did he not take up the post as King David did? It might be that that the post of Kings are all political matters, and political matters are all temporary.
2009年7月25日 星期六
2009年7月18日 星期六
I feel very much puzzled.
My Sunday Scripture 2009.7.19
The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
Saint Mark 6:30-34
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My Reading Notes:
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I cannot do away the images I had got from the vast concerts held by Michael Jackson. I would have wondered, how Jesus would pitied the crowd there.
For they could have gained nothing from the concert singer, but a false feeling of angry expression. Human on earth is in a very pitiable situation nowadays. They dont know where to go, and they are very much blinded by the material world.
I can observe by my humble mind, that human spirits are like iron powers. They need guidence, they need a magnet to draw them together. Like the sheep need the Shepherd. Now the sheeps on earth go to the concert stars, and the stars are not shepherds. I feel very much puzzled.
The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
Saint Mark 6:30-34
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My Reading Notes:
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I cannot do away the images I had got from the vast concerts held by Michael Jackson. I would have wondered, how Jesus would pitied the crowd there.
For they could have gained nothing from the concert singer, but a false feeling of angry expression. Human on earth is in a very pitiable situation nowadays. They dont know where to go, and they are very much blinded by the material world.
I can observe by my humble mind, that human spirits are like iron powers. They need guidence, they need a magnet to draw them together. Like the sheep need the Shepherd. Now the sheeps on earth go to the concert stars, and the stars are not shepherds. I feel very much puzzled.
2009年7月12日 星期日
Authority over unclean spirits
He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick--no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave from there. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them." So they went off and preached repentance. They drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Saint Mark 6:7-13.
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My Reading Notes:
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Those who were given authority have nothing in their hands.
When you have nothing, then you are fearless, and you are pure. Then you will have the power to fight.
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Saint Mark 6:7-13.
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My Reading Notes:
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Those who were given authority have nothing in their hands.
When you have nothing, then you are fearless, and you are pure. Then you will have the power to fight.
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2009年7月5日 星期日
Why Couldnt Jesus be accepted by his own native people?
My Sunday Scripture 2009.7.5.
He departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house." So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. He went around to the villages in the vicinity teaching.
Saint Mark 6:1-6.
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My Reading Notes:
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Why Couldnt Jesus be accepted by his own native people?
If a prophet is grown in his native land, people there can not accept him. It might be that the people had their own thinking pattern. They were used in their old thoughts. If people coming from within have a new thought, they tend not to accept.
And this is why, the Jewish Nation can not accept Jesus.
When an old thought is too strong, the old thought itself will expel any new elements.
He departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house." So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. He went around to the villages in the vicinity teaching.
Saint Mark 6:1-6.
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My Reading Notes:
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Why Couldnt Jesus be accepted by his own native people?
If a prophet is grown in his native land, people there can not accept him. It might be that the people had their own thinking pattern. They were used in their old thoughts. If people coming from within have a new thought, they tend not to accept.
And this is why, the Jewish Nation can not accept Jesus.
When an old thought is too strong, the old thought itself will expel any new elements.
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