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| PARALYTIC� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, JUDGES 5:10; 10:3-4; I Kings 1:33-34 - You who ride on white donkeys, sitting on your saddle blankets....[Judge Jair] had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys...."Set Solomon my son on my [David's] own mule and....blow the trumpet and shout, 'Long live King Solomon.' " | ||||||||||
| [2]������ Around 250 BC, Ptolemy ordered the Hebrew text (Old Testament, completed around 400 BC) to be translated into Greek and put in the library at Alexandria, Egypt.� Seventy-two Jewish elders who also knew Greek were called on to carry this out.� What resulted was the Septuagent, an accurate translation of the Old Testament of which we today have manuscripts from that time.� It is no different than the English translations we have today. | ||||||||||
| [3]������ Homer wroteThe Iliad around 900 BC, but the earliest manuscript we have was written 500 years later.� There are 643 copies and 764 lines in doubt. | ||||||||||
| On the other hand, We have 5300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, 10,000 Latin, and 24,000 in other languages.� Entire manuscripts we have today were penned beginning 250 years after Christ, and fragments were penned the same century as Jesus.� The New Testament has only 643 lines in doubt. | ||||||||||
| [4]������ SEE VOL. II, DREAM MAKER, "Eyes of God." | ||||||||||
| [5]������ SEE VOL. II, DREAM MAKER, "Power Meets Power" | ||||||||||
| [6]������ SEE VOL. II, DREAM MAKER, "The Hand of God." | ||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:17 - One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and religion teachers were sitting around. They had come from nearly every village in Galilee and Judea, even as far away as Jerusalem, to be there.� The healing power of God was on him. | ||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:18 - Some men arrived carrying a paraplegic on a stretcher.� They were looking for a way to get into the house and set him before Jesus. | ||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:19a - When they couldn't find a way in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof.... | ||||||||||
| [10]����� www.securesite.net/ss2ad/past/main91 - Several homes of the first-century have been excavated in Capernaum.� One has been declared by archaeologist Prof. Vasillios Tsaferis, Director of Excavation Services fror the Israel Government Antiquities Authority, said "the excavation team discovered remarkable evidence, including inscriptions, which indicate that this place was indeed the site of some of the most significant events recoprded in the gospel accounts."� Some claim one particular house belonged to Peter, and others say there is no way to know for sure. | ||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:19b - ...removed some tiles, and let him down in the middle of everyone, right in front of Jesus. | ||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:20 - Impressed by their bold belief, he said, "Friend, I forgive your sins." | ||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:21 - That set the religion scholars and Pharisees buzzing.� "Who does he think he is?� That's blasphemous talk!� God and only God can forgive sins." | ||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:22-24 - Jesus knew exactly what they were thinking and said, "Why all this gossipy whispering?� Which is simpler: to say 'I forgive your sins,' or to say 'Get up and start walking'?� Well, just so it's clear that I'm the Son of Man and authorized to do either, or both...."� He now spoke directly to the paraplegic:� "Get up.� Take your bedroll and go home." | ||||||||||
| [15]����������������� THE BIBLE, LUKE 5:25-26 - Without a moment's hesitation, he did it ~ got up, took his blanket, and left for home, giving glory to God all the way.� The people rubbed their eyes, incredulous ~ and then also gave glory of God.� Awestruck, they said, "We've never seen anything like that!" | ||||||||||