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| FIVE WEALTHY WOMEN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]� ���� SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "Power Meets Power" | ||||||||||||
| [2]� ���� SEE VOLUME I, BIRTH OF A MIRACLE, "Walking Tall," "Lost in Wonder," and "Sister, Aunt, Forever Friend." | ||||||||||||
| [3]� ���� Yes, Jesus had brothers and sisters, and his father was still alive. �SEE THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 13:55 - "We've known him since he was a kid; he's the carpenter's son [notice, present tense].� We know his mother, Mary.� We know his brothers James and Joseph, Simon and Judas.� All his sisters live here." | ||||||||||||
| [4]� ���� THE BIBLE, LUKE 8:3 - Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's manager...Who used...Considerable means to provide for the company. | ||||||||||||
| [5]� ���� According to Dr. Merrill F. Unger, the denari was the standard "silver dollar" under Rome.� It weighed 60 grains.� One grain was worth one to two cents.� Therefore, a denari was worth between 50c and $1.00 US currency. | ||||||||||||
| [6]� ���� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:42 [KJV], MARK 1:20, LUKE 5:10, 5 - "Thou art Simon, son of Jonas"....Zebedee...and the hired hands....James and John, Zebedee's sons, coworkers with Simon [Peter and Andrew]...."We've been fishing hard all night and haven't caught even a minnow." | ||||||||||||
| [7]� ���� About 400 BC, the Samaritans translated the first five books of the Old Testament (Books of Moses) into their language.� It still exists today and coincides completely with our present Books of Moses in the Old Testament. | ||||||||||||
| [8]� ���� SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "God Eyes" | ||||||||||||
| [9]� ���� SEE VOLUME II DREAM MAKER, "Empty Net Syndrome" | ||||||||||||
| [10]���� SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "The Hand of God" | ||||||||||||
| [11]���� THE BIBLE, II KINGS 4:8, 24 - A well-to-do woman was there....She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead on." | ||||||||||||
| [12]���� THE BIBLE, LUKE 8:3 - ...and many others.� These women were helping to support them out of their own means.� [A denari was worth between 50c and 1.00 US currency.]] | ||||||||||||
| [13]����� Sepphoris was the capital city of Galilee under Herod the Great.� Herod Antipas, his son, built a wall around Sepphoris and lived in the palace there until he built Tiberius as his new capital around AD 26-28.� The Romans burned Sepphoris around AD 6 and crucified 2,000 of its inhabitants, their crosses lining both sides of the road (JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18, 10:9) at the same time that Emmaus was burned.� Sepphoris was apparently rebuilt, just as Emmaus was rebuilt (see Luke 24:13). | ||||||||||||
| [14]����� A forum in Greek meant market place.�� It was an elevated pavement in the center of the market place where judges sat to hold court or orators presented their views, etc.� In some places such as Rome it was elegant with marble pillars and statues. | ||||||||||||
| [15]����� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18, 2:1 - Herod built a wall about Sepphoris (which is the security of all Galilee) and made it the metropolis of the country [province of Galilee]. | ||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 5:29-30 - "Let's not pretend this is easier than it really is....You have to chop off your right hand the moment you notice it raised threateningly.� Better a bloody stump than your entire being discarded for good in the dump." | ||||||||||||
| [17]����� Plato wrote about 400 BC, but the earliest manuscript we have today was written 1200 years later.� There are seven copies of it. | ||||||||||||
| On the other hand, entire manuscripts of the New Testament that we have today were penned around 250 AD, and fragments from nearly everywhere in the New Testament exist, some from the same century that Jesus lived.� There are a total of 40,000 ancient copies of either the entire New Testament or fragments of it.� They all agree with the New Testament that we have today. | ||||||||||||
| [18]����� MATTHEW 15:30 - They came, tons of them, bringing along the paraplegic, the blind, the maimed, the mute....He healed them.� [NOTE:� The word "maimed" means cut off, amputated.] | ||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 19:23 [NIV] - "Why then didn't you put my money on deposit...with interest?" | ||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1, 17a [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. | ||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 8:3 - ...Susanna; and many others.� These women were helping to support them out of their own means.� [A denaris was worth between 50c and $1.00 US currency] | ||||||||||||
| [22]����� "The borders of Magdala" in Matthew 15:39 is also called "the parts of Dalmanutha" in Mark 8:10 and seem to be regions that touched each other.� Magdala was also known as Magadan.� Evidence points to modern El Mejdel being at or near the site of Magadan.� It is on the west side of the Sea of Galilee just north of Herod Antipas' new capital city of Tiberias. | ||||||||||||
| [23]����� In Bible times, horses were only used to pull chariots and in war.� People walked everywhere or rode donkeys.� The more wealthy rode mules such as did the kings of Israel. | ||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 8:2-3 - There were also some women in their company who had been healed of various evil afflictions and illnesses:� Mary, the one called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out...along with many others who used their considerable means to provide for the company. | ||||||||||||
| [25]����� A denari was worth between 50c and $1.00 US currency. | ||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 10:1,3; JOHN 19:25, LUKE 24:18 - Jesus called twelve of his followers....Matthew, the tax man, James, son of Alphaeus....Mary the wife of Clopas....One of them, his name was Cleopas...."Jesus was a man of God, a prophet." | ||||||||||||
| [27]����� A denari is worth between 50c and $1.00 US currency. | ||||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 8:1-3 - He continued according to plan, traveled to town after town, village after village, preaching God's kingdom, spreading the Message.� The Twelve were with him.� There were also some women in their company who had been healed of various evil afflictions and illnesses:� Mary, the one called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's manager; and Susanna ~ along with many others who used their considerable means to provide for the company. | ||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:55-56 - Many women were there [at Jesus' crucifixion] watching from a distance.� They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.� Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons. | ||||||||||||
| [30]����������������� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 8:20 [NIV] - Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." | ||||||||||||