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| MARY BETHANY� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ In ancient times, it was common for the priests to rule the country through the king, and sometimes the high priest was also king.� In any case, the leaders of the official religion of a nation were sometimes more powerful than the king.� This was God's plan for the Jews in a spiritual sense ~ a priest-king.. | ||||||||||
| [2]������ 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 Joshua [Hebrew for Jesus]....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. | ||||||||||
| [3]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:10-11 - So the high priests plotted to kill Lazarus because so many of the Jews were going over and believing in Jesus on account of him. | ||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:57 - Meanwhile, the high priests and Pharisees gave out the word that anyone getting wind of him should inform them.� They were all set to arrest him. | ||||||||||
| [5]������ SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "God Eyes" | ||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, EXODUS 30:30; I KINGS 1:38 - "Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests"....Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent [Tabernacle] and anointed Solomon.� Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, "Long live King Solomon!" | ||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, EXODUS 30:22-33 - "Take the following fine spices...liquid myrrh...fragrant cinnamon...fragrant cane [calamus]...cassia....olive oil. Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer....Whoever puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from his people." | ||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 10:32; JOHN 19:25 [NIV] - They were on their way up to Jerusalem with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid....Near the cross of Jesus [a week later] stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. | ||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:1,2 - Six days before Passover....Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor.� Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. | ||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:31 [NIV] - [Five days later] - Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a SPECIAL SABBATH.� Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath....JOHN 19:31 [KJV] - The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was an high day....� | ||||||||||
| [W. E. VINE, AN EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT WORDS - Sabbath did not mean seventh, it meant day of ceasing from ordinary work.]� | ||||||||||
| THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 16:29-31 - "On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work....It is a sabbath of rest."� [This shows that, although the seventh day of each week was to be a weekly sabbath, there were other sabbaths set for certain days of the year and could not have always fallen on Saturday.] | ||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:6 - When Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper.... | ||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:9 - Word got out among the Jews that he was back in town.� The people came to take a look, not only at Jesus but also at Lazarus, who had been raised from the dead. | ||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:3 - Mary came in with a jar of very expensive aromatic oils, anointed and massaged Jesus' feet, and then wiped them with her hair.� The fragrance of the oils filled the room. | ||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, II SAMUEL 5:3b - "They anointed David king over Israel." | ||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:7 - A woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. | ||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 7:24; JOHN 12:12-13 - Jesus' priesthood is permanent.� He's there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God....The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem..."Hosannah!...The King of Israel!" | ||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 4:4 - Some of the guests became furious among themselves. | ||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:5 - "That's criminal!� A sheer waste!� This perfume could have been sold for well over a year's wages and handed out to the poor."� They swelled up in anger, nearly bursting with indignation over her. | ||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:4-6 - Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, even then getting ready to betray him, said, "Why wasn't this oil sold and the money given to the poor?� It would have easily brought three hundred silver pieces."� He said this not because he cared two cents about the poor but because he was a thief.� He was in charge of their common funds, but also embezzled them. | ||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:6 - But Jesus said, "Let her alone.� Why are you giving her a hard time?� She has just done something wonderfully significant for me." | ||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:7 - "You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives.� Whenever you feel like it, you can do something for them.� Not so with me." | ||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:8 - "She did what she could when she could ~ she pre-anointed my body for burial." | ||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:9 - "And you can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she just did is going to be talked about admiringly." | ||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, GENESIS 19:26 - But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. | ||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:10-11 - Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the cabal of high priests, determined to betray him.� They couldn't believe their ears, and promised to pay him well.� He started looking for just the right moment to hand him over. | ||||||||||