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THE 72� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}

[1]�� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 5:7 [NIV] - During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death.

[2]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:52 - He sent messengers on ahead.� They came to a Samaritan village to make arrangements for his hospitality.

[3]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:57 - On the road someone [MATTHEW 8:19 - a teacher of the law] asked if he could go along.� "I'll go with you, wherever," he said.

[4]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:58 [NIV] - Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay hishead."

[5]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:59 - Jesus said to another, "Follow me."� He said, "Certainly, but first excuse me for a couple of days, please.� I have to make arrangements for my father's funeral."

[6]�� The Sanhedrin, highest court/ruling body in the Jewish nation, was made up of 70 men with the high priest (sometimes there were two) as head.�

[7]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:60 - Jesus refused.� "First things first.� Your business is life, not death.� And life is urgent:� Announce God's kingdom!"

[8]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:61 - Then another said, "I'm ready to follow you, Master, but first excuse me while I get things straightened out at home."

[9]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:62 - Jesus said, "No procrastination.� No backward looks.� You can't put God's kingdom off till tomorrow.� Seize the day."

[10]�� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18, 13:2, 5 - But in the tenth year of Archaelaus's government [son of Herod the Great]...Judea and Samaria, not being able to bear his barbarous and tyrannical usage of them....banished him....Archelaus' country was laid to the province of Syria and Cyrenius.� [Procurators like Pilate were appointed to the province of Judea, but Syria stayed under Syria.]

[11]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:1-2, 10 - ....Jesus 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...he also went.� But he kept out of the way, careful not to draw attention to himself.

[12]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:49 - "Day after day I've been sitting in the Temple teaching, and you never so much as lifted a hand against me."

[13]�� The Temple grounds was some thirty acres.� The outer court was for Gentiles who wanted to see the grounds.� An inscription found by Clermont Ganneau in 1871 in the area of the Temple says:� "No Gentile may enter inside the enclosing wall around the Temple.� Whoever is caught is alone responsible for the death which follows."

[14]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:28 - That provoked Jesus...to cry out, "Yes, you think you know me and where I'm from, but that's not where I'm from.� I didn't set myself up in business.� My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don't know him at all."

[15]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:30-31a - They were looking for a way to arrest him, but not a hand was laid on him because it wasn't yet God's time.� Many from the crowd committed themselves in faith to him.

[16]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 7:37-38 - On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand.� He cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.� Rivers of living water..."

[17]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:1 - Jesus went across to Mount Olives.

[18]�� THE BIBLE, I KINGS 11:7-8 - He even built a temple on the Mount of Olives across the valley from Jerusalem, for Chemosh the de4praved god of Moab, and another for Molech, the unutterably vile god of the Ammonites.� Solomon built temples for these foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.

[19]�� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 4:14; LUKE 23:3 [NIV] - Now that we know what we have - Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God....So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?"� "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.

[20]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:1a - Later the Master selected seventy.

[21]�� SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "The Benefactresses"

[22]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:3�� - "Be careful ~ this is hazardous work.� You're like lambs in a wolf pack."

[23]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:4a [NIV] - "Do not take a purse or bag or sandals."

[24]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:4b - "Don't loiter and make small talk with everyone you meet along the way."

[25]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:5-7 - "When you enter a home, greet the family, 'Peace.'� If your greeting is received, then it's a good place to stay.� But if it's not received, take it back and get out.� Don't impose yourself.� Stay at one home, taking your meals there, for a worker deserves three square meals.� Don't move from house to house, looking for the best cook in town."

[26]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 2:22 [NIV] - Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him.

[27]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:9 - "Heal anyone who is sick, and tell them, 'God's kingdom is right on your doorstep!' "

[28]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:9-12, 16 - "When you enter a town and are not received, go out into the street and say...Did you have any idea that God's kingdom was right on your doorstep?;� Sodom will have it better on Judgment Day than the town that rejects you....The one who listens to you, listens to me.� The one who rejects you, rejects me.� And rejecting me is the same as rejecting God who sent me."

[29]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:1 - Later the Master selected seventy and sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he intended to go.

[30]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:17 [NIV] - The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."

[31]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:18-20 - Jesus said, "I know.� I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky.� See what I've given you?� Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy.� No one can put a hand on you.� All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God's authority over you and presence with you.� Not what you do for God but what God does for you ~ that's the agenda for rejoicing."

[32]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:21 - At that, Jesus rejoiced, exuberant in the Holy Spirit.� "I thank you, Father, Master of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the know-it-alls and showed them to these innocent newcomers.� Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way."

[33]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:23-24 - He then turned in a private aside to his disciples, "Fortunate the eyes that see what you're seeing!� There are plenty of prophets and kings who would have given their right arm to see what you are seeing but never got so much as a glimpse, to hear what you are hearing but never got so much as a whisper."

[34]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:38 - As they continued their travel, Jesus entered a village.� A woman by the name of Martha welcomed him and made him feel quite at home.� She had a sister, Mary.

[35]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:22, 31, 39 - They were celebrating Hanukkah just then in Jerusalem.� It was winter....Again the Jews picked up rocks to throw at him....They tried yet again to arrest him, but he slipped through their fingers.

[36]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:40 - He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and stayed there.

[37]�� Perea was a southern province of Palestine across the Jordan River to the east of Jerusalem and ruled by Herod Antipas who also ruled the province of Galilee up north.

[38]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:42 - A lot of people followed him over.� They were saying, "John did no miracles, but everything he said about this man has come true."� Many believed in him then and there.

[39]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 14:26 - One day when large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them, "Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters ~ yes, even one's own self! ~ can't be my disciple."

[40]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 14:27 - "Anyone who won't shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can't be my disciple."

[41]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:28-29 - "Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn't first sit down and figure the cost so you'll know if you can complete it?� If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you're going to look pretty foolish.� Everyone passing by will poke fun at you:� 'He started something he couldn't finish.' "

[42]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 14:31 - "Or can you imagine a king going into battle against another king without first deciding whether it is possible with his ten thousand troops to face the twenty thousand troops of the other?"

[43]�� JOHN 11:8, 43-44 - They said, "Rabbi, you can't do that.� The Jews are out to kill you, and you're going back?"...Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!"� And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face.� Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."

[44]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:53 - From that day on, they plotted to kill him.

[45]�� SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Haze of Hopelessness"

[46]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:17 [NIV[ - As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.� "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

[47]�� MARK 10:18, 21a - Jesus said, "Why are you calling me good?� No one is good, only God"....Jesus looked him hard in the eye ~ and loved him!

[48]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:18 - "You know the commandments:� Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, honor your father and mother."� SEE ALSO EXODUS 20:12-16 for all ten of the commandments.

[49]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:20 - He said, "Teacher, I have ~ from my youth ~ kept them all!"

[50]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:21 - He said, "There's one thing left:� Go sell whatever you own and give it to the poor.� All your wealth will then be heavenly wealth.� And come follow me."

[51]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:22a - The man's face clouded over.� This was the last thing he expected to hear.

[52]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:23 - Looking at his disciples, Jesus said, "Do you have any idea how difficult it is for people who 'have it all' to enter God's kingdom?"

[53]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:24-25 - The disciples couldn't believe what they were hearing, but Jesus kept on:� "You can't imagine how difficult.� I'd say it's easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for the rich to get into God's kingdom."

[54]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:26 - That set the disciples back on their heels.� "Then who has any chance at all?" they asked.

[55]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 10:27 - Jesus was blunt:� "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off by yourself.� Every chance in the world if you let God do it."

[56]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:28 - Peter tried another angle:� "We left everything and followed you."

[57]�� SEE VOLUME VIII, COME FLY WITH ME, "The Soul of God"

[58]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:29 - Jesus said, "Mark my words, no one who sacrifices houses, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, land ~ whatever ~ because of me and the Message will lose out.� They'll get it all back, but multiplied many times...also in troubles.� And then the bonus of eternal life!� This is once again the Great Reversal."

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