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| BLIND, DEAF, SPEECHLESS� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ The Roman province of Syria today boasts the oldest city in the world - Damascus.� Antioch was its capital.� Today's Turkey was to its north, Palestine to its south.� During Jesus' childhood, Palestine and Syria were the same province and Cyrenius, a Romans senator, and Coponius were sent to rule it.� It was this Cyrenius who carried out the census ordered by Caesar that resulted in Jesus being born in Bethlehem.� When Herod Archaelaus was dethroned and banished by Caesar when Jesus was eleven, Palestine was separated and put under a procurator headquartered in Jerusalem.� At the time of Jesus' ministry, Pilate was that procurator.� (See also FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, Bk. 18, 1 and 2) | ||||||||||||||
| [2]������ The previous chapter endnotes explained that Decapolis was a region within Herod Philip's province where there were ten Greek cities with all citizens holding Roman citizenship and answering directly to Caesar, bypassing Herod. | ||||||||||||||
| [3]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:31 - Then he left the region of Tyre, went through Sidon back to Galilee Lake and over to the district of the Ten Towns. | ||||||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, EXODUS 39:1 - From the blue, purple and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. | ||||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 6:11, 13 - Take the silver and gold and make a crown and set it on the head of the high priest....He will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne.� And he will be a priest on his throne.� And there will be harmony between the two. | ||||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:32 - Some people brought a man who could neither hear nor speak and asked Jesus to lay a healing hand on him. | ||||||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:33 - He took the man off by himself, put his fingers in the man's ears and some spit on the man's tongue. | ||||||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:34 - Then Jesus looked up in prayer, groaned mightily, and commanded, "Ephphatha! ~ Open up!" | ||||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 7:35 - And it happened.� The man's hearing was clear and his speech plain ~ just like that. | ||||||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:36b - Jesus urged them to keep it quiet. | ||||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:36b-37 - But they talked it up all the more, beside themselves with excitement.� "He's done it all and done it well.� He gives hearing to the deaf, speech to the speechless." | ||||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:29-30 - After Jesus returned [from Phoenicia and Syria] he walked along Lake Galilee and then climbed a mountain and took his place, ready to receive visitors.� They came, tons of them, bringing along the paraplegic, the blind, the maimed [people with missing limbs] the mute ~ all sorts of people in need ~ and more or less threw them down at Jesus' feet to see what he would do with them.� He healed them. | ||||||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:31 - When the people saw the mutes speaking, the maimed healthy, the paraplegics walking around, the blind looking around, they were astonished and let everyone know that God was blazingly alive among them. | ||||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:32-38 - But Jesus wasn't finished with them.� He called his disciples and said, "I hurt for these people.� For three days now they've been with me, and now they have nothing to eat.� I can't send them away without a meal ~ they'd probably collapse on the road."...He took the seven loaves and the fish.� After giving thanks, he divided it up and gave it to the people.� Everyone ate.� They had all they wanted....over four thousand [men, plus women and children. [NIV] people ate their fill. | ||||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 15:39; MARK 8:10 - After Jesus sent them away, he climbed in the boat and crossed over to the Magadan hills....Then he sent them home.� He himself went straight to the boat with his disciples and set out for Dalmanoutha. | ||||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:1; MARK 8:11 - Some Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again, pressing him to prove himself to them...started in on him, badgering him to prove himself, pushing him up against the wall. | ||||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:2-3; MARK 8:12 - He told them, "You have a saying that goes, 'Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.'� You find it easy enough to forecast the weather ~ why can't you read the signs of the times?"� Provoked, he said, "Why does this generation clamor for miraculous guarantees?� If I have anything to say about it, you'll not get so much as a hint of a guarantee." | ||||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:4a - "An evil and wanton generation is always wanting signs and wonders.� The only sign you'll get is the Jonah sign." | ||||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:4b - Then he turned on his heel and walked away. | ||||||||||||||
| [20]����� MATTHEW 16:5 - On their way to the other side of the lake, the disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring along bread. | ||||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:6 - In the mean time, Jesus said to them, "Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisee-Sadducee yeast." | ||||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:7 - Thinking he was scolding them for forgetting bread, they discussed in whispers what to do. | ||||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:8-11 - Jesus knew what they were doing and said, "Why all these worried whispers about forgetting the bread?� Runt believers!� Haven't you caught on yet?� Don't you remember the five loaves of bread and the five thousand people...or the seven loaves that fed four thousand?� Haven't you realized yet that bread isn't the problem?� The problem is yeast, Pharisee-Sadducee yeast" | ||||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 16:12 - Then they got it: that he wasn't concerned about eating, but teaching ~ the Pharisee-Sadducee kind of teaching. | ||||||||||||||
| [25]����� Bethsaida was built into a beautiful walled city by Herod Philip and renamed Julius in honor of the daughter of Augustus Caesar.� He made it his capital city, complete with magnificent palace and other public buildings.� It is today known as Khirbet el 'Araj. | ||||||||||||||
| [26]����� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18, 2:1 - When Philip also had built Paneas, a city at the fountains of Jordan, he named it Caesarea.� He also advanced the village Bethsaida, situate at the lake of Gennessareth [Galilee] unto the dignity of a city, both by the number of inhabitants it contained, and its other grandeur, and called it by the name of Julias, the same name with Caesar's daughter. | ||||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 8:22a - They arrived at Bethsaida. | ||||||||||||||
| [28]����� SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "Gates of Glory" | ||||||||||||||
| [29] ���� THE BIBLE, MARK 7:23a - Taking him by the hand, he led him out of the village. | ||||||||||||||
| [30]����� www.biblehistory.net/Chap4 - Julian, Roman Emperor from 361-363, an enemy of Christianity wrote:� "Jesus has now been celebrated about three hundred years; having done nothing in his lifetime worthy of fame, unless anyone thinks it a very great work to heal lame and blind people and exercise demons in the villages of Bethsaida and Bethany." | ||||||||||||||
| [31]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 8:23b-25 - He put spit in the man's eyes, laid hands on him, and asked, "Do you see anything?" �He looked up.� "I see men.� They look like walking trees."� So Jesus laid hands on his eyes again.� The man looked hard and realized that he had recovered perfect sight, saw everything in bright, twenty-twenty focus. | ||||||||||||||
| [32]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 8:26 - Jesus sent him straight home, telling him, "Don't enter the village." | ||||||||||||||