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| NICODEMUS� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| {Where Document Name is cited first, it is Quoted} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [1]������ CODE OF JEWISH LAW by Rabbi Solomon Ganzfried, VOL. I, 1:1-3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:2 - "...the tradition of the elders." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [3]������ CODE OF JEWISH LAW by Rabbi Solomon Ganzfried, VOL. I, 1:4-7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:1 - Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council [Sanhedrin]. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 11:18 - Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your forheads. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 6:6-8 - These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.� Impress them on your children.� Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.� Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 6:9, 12 - Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates....Be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, I KINGS 6:7-10; NEHEMIAH 10:39 - In building the temple....stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third...side rooms....where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the singers stay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 11:24-25 - So Moses...brought together seventy of their elders...put the Spirit on the seventy elders. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [10]����� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. XX, 9:2 (FOOTNOTE BY TRANSLATOR) - Ananas...had been esteemed high priest for a long time; and, besides Caiaphas, his son-in-law, had five of his own sons high priests after him....for twenty-three years....made him a sort of perpetual high priest. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:2-3 - During the Chief-Priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas ~ John, Zachariah's son, out in the desert at the time, received a message from God. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, EZEKIEL 11:19; 18:31 - I will put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh....Get a new heart and a new spirit.� Why will you die, O house of Israel?� For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, EZEKIEL 36:25-26 - I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean....I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of flesh.� And I will put my Spirit in you. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, EZEKIEL 37:2-5, 9 - I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley...This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones:� "I will make breath enter you and you will come back to life....Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [15]����� SEE VOLUME I, BIRTH OF A MIRACLE, "The Ruler, the Scholars and the Boy." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:1-2a - There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nichodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews.� Late one night he visited Jesus. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:2B - "Rabbi, we all know you're a teacher straight from God.� No one could do all the God-pointing, God-revealing acts you do if God weren't in on it." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:3 [NIV] - In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:4 - "How can anyone," said Nichodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up?� You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again.� What are you saying with this 'born-from-above' talk?" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:5 - Jesus said, "You're not listening.� Let me say it again.� Unless a person submits to this original creation ~ the 'wind hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life ~ it's not possible to enter God's kingdom." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:6 [NIV] - "Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 26:18,19 - We gave birth to wind.� We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to the people of the world.� But your dead will live, their bodies will rise. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:7-8 - "Don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above' - out of this world, so to speak.� You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that.� You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next.� That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:10-12 - Jesus said, "You're a respected teacher of Israel and you don't know these basics?...I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes....If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don't believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can't see, the things of God." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:13 - "No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:16-17 - "This is how much God loved the world:� He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why:� So that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:18-19 - "This is the crisis we're in:� God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness....Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light...fearing a painful exposure.� But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:22; 4:1-3 - After this conversation, Jesus went on with his disciples into the Judean countryside....also baptizing....Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing).� They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and John into rivals in the eyes of the people.� So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [29]����� See AND WE THOUGHT WE KNEW YOU, VOL. III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Never on Sunday" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [30]����� SEE AND WE THOUGHT WE KNEW YOU, VOL. III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Shackled" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [31]����� SEE AND WE THOUGHT WE KNEW YOU, VOL. V, FLOOD GATES, "Holier Than Thou" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [32]����� SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Traitor" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [33]����� SEE VOL. III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Never on Sunday" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [34]����� SEE VOL. IV, FOLK HERO, "Cosmic Chaos" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [35]����� SEE THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:1-9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [36]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:1, 2, 10 - Later Jesus was going about his business in Galilee.� He didn't want to travel in Judea because the Jews there were looking for a chance to kill him.� It was near the time of Tabernacles, a feast observed annually by the Jews....But later, after his family had gone up to the Feast, he also went.� But he kept out of the way, careful not to draw attention to himself. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [37]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:14, 32 - With the Feast already half over, Jesus showed up in the Temple, teaching....The Pharisees, alarmed at this seditious undertow going through the crowd, teamed up with the high priests and sent their police to arrest him. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [38]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:45-49 - That's when the Temple police reported back to the high priests and Pharisees, who "Are you carried away like the rest of the rabble?� You don't see any of the leaders believing in him, do you?...It's only this crowd, ignorant of God's Law, that is taken in by him ~ and damned." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [39]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:50-51 - Nichodemus, the man who had come to Jesus earlier and was both a ruler and a Pharisee, spoke up.� "Does our Law decide about a man's guilt without first listening to him and finding out what he is doing?" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [40]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:52 - But they cut him off.� "Are you also campaigning for the Galilean? �Examine the evidence.� See if any prophet ever comes from Galilee?" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [41]����� SEE THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 19:3-12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [42]����� SEE THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 23:1-39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [43]����� SEE THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 21:23-32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [44]����� SEE VOLUME V, FLOOD GATES, "Portals of Paradise" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [45]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:47-50 - Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.� "What are we accomplishing?" they asked...."If we let him go on like this...the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."� then...Caiaphas, who was high priest..."It is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [46]����� SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Day Extraordinaire" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [47]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:12, 13, 19 - The next day the huge crowd...heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem.� they broke off palm branches and went out to meet him.� And they cheered:� "Hosanna!...The King of Israel!"...The Pharisees took one look and threw up their hands.� "It's out of control.� The world's in a stampede after him." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [48]����� SEE VOLUME VII, STAR SONG, "The Substitute" and "Bowels of Hell" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [49]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 23:33, 44 - When they got to the place called Skull Hill, they crucified him, along the criminals....By now it was noon.� The whole earth became dark, the darkness lasting three hours - a total blackout. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [50]����������������� SEE VOLUME VII STAR SONG, "Sleeping Giant." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||