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| PHOENECIAN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 14:10, 13; 15:21 - [Herod] ordered John's [the Baptist] head cut off....When Jesus got the news, he slipped away by boat to an out-of-the-way place by himself....From there Jesus took a trip to Tyre and Sidon. | ||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:1-3 - After that, Pharisees and religion scholars came to Jesus all the way from Jerusalem, criticizing, "Why do your disciples play fast and loose with the rules?"� But Jesus put it right back on them.� "Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God's commands?" | ||||||||||||
| [3]������ SEE VOLUME I, BIRTH OF A MIRACLE, "The King, the Scholars and the Boy" | ||||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:1 - 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. | ||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:1-5 The Pharisees, along with some religion scholars...noticed that some of his disciples weren't being careful with ritual washings before meals...."Why do your disciples flout the rules?" | ||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:4b-6 [NIV] - "Hypocrites.� God said 'Honor your father and mother.' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'� But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever [financial] help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God'....Thus you nullify the word of God for your traditions."� | ||||||||||||
| [7]������ RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. I, pg. 119-121 - Glass and metal utensils...are immersed in a pool that would be approved...Before the immersion, the following benediction is pronounced: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God...."....Before immersing the vessel, it must be thoroughly cleansed....The whole vessel must be submerged at one time....A vessel with a handle...held in the hand during the immersion, the hand should first be dipped into the water....It is forbidden to immerse vessels either on the Sabbath or on a festival. | ||||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 23:25b [NIV] - "...you hypocrites!� You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence." | ||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 23:27b-28 [NIV] - "Hypocrites!� You are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.� In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." | ||||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 23:29-30 [NIV] - "Hypocrites!� You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.� And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets'." | ||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:6-7 - Jesus answered, "'These people....act like they are worshiping me, but they don't mean it.� They just use me as a cover for teaching whatever suits their fancy, ditching God's command'....You get rid of God's command so you won't be inconvenienced." | ||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:12 - Later his disciples came and told him, "Did you know how upset the Pharisees were when they heard what you said?" | ||||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:21 - From there Jesus took a trip to Tyre and Sidon. | ||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:21 - From there Jesus took a trip to Tyre and Sidon. | ||||||||||||
| [15]����� The city of Tyre existed as early as the 14th century B.C. and continues to exist today in Lebanon.� It has always been an important international trade center. | ||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:26a - The woman was Greek, Syro-Phoenician by birth. | ||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 14:17-21 - "All we have are five loaves of bread and two fishes"....They all ate their fill.� They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers.� About five thousand [men plus women and children] were bed. | ||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 14:17; 17:28, 31 [NIV] - Yet he has not left himself without testimony.� He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy....For in him we live and move and have our being.� As some of your [Athenians] own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' | ||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 2:8 - Jesus knew right away what they were thinking, and said, "Why are you so skeptical?" | ||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 1:21, 22 - People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives.� They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life.� | ||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 1:28-32 - Since they didn't bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose.� And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing.� They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating.� Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongues God-bashers.� Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags!� They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives....And it's not as if they don't know better.� they know perfectly well they're spitting in god's face.� And they don't care - worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best! | ||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 11:1, 3 [KJV] - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen....Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of� God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. | ||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:24b - He [Jesus] entered a house there where he didn't think he would be found, but he couldn't escape notice. | ||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE MARK 7:25a - He was barely inside when a woman who had a disturbed daughter heard where he was. | ||||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the road, also the Truth, also Life." | ||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:25c - She came and knelt at his feet, begging for help. | ||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:26b (NIV) - She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. | ||||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:27 - He [Jesus] said, "Stand in line and take your turn.� The children get fed first.� If there's any left over, the dogs get it." | ||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:28 - She said, "Of course, Master.� But don't dogs under the table get scraps dropped by the children?" | ||||||||||||
| [30]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:29 - Jesus was impressed.� "You're right!� On your way!� Your daughter is no longer disturbed.� The demonic affliction is gone." | ||||||||||||
| [31]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:30 - She went home and found her daughter relaxed on the bed, the torment gone for good. | ||||||||||||