I'm trying to set this up so that our brother Joseph Rajan can begin an act 6, his first official time of doing Wednesday night study.
All right, so let's take a look at the last portion of Acts chapter 4. But first let's open up with the word of prayer.
Our father, we just praise you and thank you for. The written word of God as our which is our guide in life and your eternal word we thank you for the words of salvation that are contained.
They're in and for its guide in our lives and also for fellowshiping with like-minded believers.
We are grateful for The church and we Certainly, await your return, Lawrence. We would love for your guidance tonight by the part of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen.
So I'm looking at the big clock. We're starting at 7 10. I want to Get my time in.
So. Let's look at the end of Acts for. And verse 32 and it says this.
Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul, and neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they all, they had all things in common and with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
And great grace was upon them all. The verse 34, nor was there anyone among them who lacked for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them.
And brought the proceeds of the things that were sold and laid them at the apostles feet and they distributed.
Each as everyone has need. Have needs, right? And Joseph's, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles.
Joseph's here in my margin also has the name, Joseph. Who was also named Barnabas by the Apostle, which is translated, son of encouragement, a Levite of the country of Cyprus having land sold it and brought them money and laid it at the apostles feet.
So where we are in acts right now is that Luke is continuing with his his sort of thesis.
And that's found in Acts chapter 2 versus 42 through 47. Let me just read those verses.
You'll recognize the first couple of verses because that's what we base breadth and assemblies on.
But X 242 says this. And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers at Sara.
Foundation, they're verse 43, then fear came upon every soul. Again, we're in acts too, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
Now all who believed were together and all had things in common. And sold their possessions in goods and divided them among all as anyone had need.
Verse 46 chapter 2 and X. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house.
They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart. Praising God and having favor with all the people.
And the Lord added to the church daily those who are being saved. So Luke is continuing on this theme and he begins to illustrate these things in the next series of chapters.
On the things detailing the things that were occurring. D you know Luke was a physician he was a very good A note taker, he collected, remember he says this in Luke as well as an axe and he collected information together so that he could.
So that our faith would be strengthened, right? He talks out, he, names Theophilus, but for all of us that our strength would be our faith would be strengthened by the facts and what had occurred.
And so. Luke illustrates the nature and extent of the early believers commitment to one another by way now of social concern.
This is what he's going to focus on in this in this the end of 4 in the beginning of our portions of 5 here.
And he does this in a couple of ways. He starts with a summary statement. Then by example of genuine Christian concern and conduct and finally by an example of serious deceit so he is going to talk about sincere commitment and he's going to talk in chapter 5 in the beginning about deceit and this is in the early church.
But first before he does that. Let's talk about what he has to say about the early Christians.
So being filled with the Holy Spirit. Christians in the early Christians being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Demonstrated this by proclaiming and preaching the Word of God but also sharing possessions with the needy because of believers onness in Christ.
This is what Luke is emphasizing here. So talking about sharing possessions, we're looking at chapter 4 versus 32.
And toward the end. And going to the end of the chapter. Here we have in verse 32. Let's read this in chapter 4.
It says this. Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they all had things in common.
I want to contrast this with 2 verses 34 and 35. Nor was there anyone among them who lacked for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold and laid them at the apostles feet and they distributed each as anyone had need.
So verse 32 and then 34 and 35 express differing views of personal possessions and properties The first in 32.
Talks about those who retained possessions but shared them as significant needs would arise. The second group verse 34 and 35 We're folks who sold what they had and took the proceeds and gave them to the apostles to distribute those in need.
It just seems that the difference between the 2 versus 32 and 34 and 35 is the attitude of the believers to these practices.
In verse 32, they're presented as customary and continuous. Whereas in the latter, 34 and 35, such action seems to be to be an extraordinary response to special needs.
The point is that, Luke is then kind of emphasizing that both continuous and extraordinary acts of Christian social concern were occurring in the early church.
This is a mark of the believers at that time. And then he ties these acts into the gospel.
Of the good news and the resurrection. It was because of these acts and the recognition that they must always be part of the Christian mystery that God's blessing rested upon the early church as where Luke seems to be going here.
In verse 32, the phrase, the voltage of those who believed means the whole congregation was in allegiance to Jesus and one another.
They were on the same page. And then. There are commentators that describe the fact that these early believers might have thought of themselves as the remnant of Israel, that they were continuing along the lines.
As they're, you know, we talk about beliefs that are formed over time, but if that's the case, then they were acting like Deuteronomy 6 verse 5.
Which says you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Another portion dude, Ronnie, this is Durham, Deuteronomy, 10 verse 12 says this.
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? But to fear the Lord your God to walk in all his ways and to love him to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
So this kind of oneness that they shared extended to personal possessions and meeting the needs of others. They they got together and they did this.
Practically, there were a lot of reasons for sharing. We think about Palestine at this time.
It was probably in a pretty bad economic situation. There were. Probably, They were certainly famine, there's political unrest.
Employment might have been very limited. There were regular residents in Jerusalem were forced. Are now faced economic and social sanctions maybe because of their new faith and so there were plenty of opportunities they met those met those opportunities and displayed Christ's nature very powerfully.
In their experience they realize that the spiritual oneness the believers found was a living reality. And they're common allegiance to Jesus.
Had to be expressed in caring for the physical needs of their Christian brothers and sisters. Here is the conclusion.
Their integrity as a community of faith depended on doing this. So very interesting, very powerful. Of course, today people do the same thing.
We can think of many examples of believers who meet special needs as they arise from their possessions. But in this early church, this was common and characteristic of them.
Notice that these early believers didn't live in monasteries. They were married. They carried about their they went about their life.
They lived in their own homes. They had their own possessions. But Christians, the attitude was that their personal possessions They weren't considered to be just private for their own consumption, but to or for their own use and enjoyment, but rather to be shared.
So very, very interesting here. Luke goes on to talk about to use this is just an example to set up.
What's going to happen here with Barnabas verse 36 and it says here in verse 36 and Joseph, who is also named Barnabas by the apostles, which is translated sent of encouragement, a Levite of the country of Cyprus, having land sold it and brought the money and laid it at the Apostle's feet.
So he's an example of this kind of extraordinary situation that was happening. He had a heart filled with the Holy Spirit.
This is what he did. Now in contrast to that we begin in chapter 5 and we look at ananias and Safira.
So let's look at the first 5 versus here.
Chap x chapter fibers one but a certain man named Ananias with Sapphire his wife sold a possession and, and he, and he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet.
First 3, but Peter said, Ananias, why is Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of land for yourself.
While it remained was it not your own and after it was sold was it not your own to control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart?
You have not lied to men but to God. Hmm. Verse 5, then Ananias hearing these words fell down and breathed his last.
So great fear came upon all those who heard these things. And the young man arose and wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.
Verse 7, now is about 3 h later when his wife came in not knowing what had happened and Peter answered her.
Tell me whether you sold the land for so much. And she said yes for so much. Then Peter said to her, how is it that you have agreed together that that you have agreed together to test the spirit of the Lord?
Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door and they will carry you out.
Then immediately verse 10 she fell down at his feet and breathed through last. And the young men came in and found her dead and curing her out buried her by her husband.
So, he repeats this again, so great fear came upon all the church and upon those who heard these words.
So Lucas pointing out that. You can do deeds in the name of Jesus. Some can be done sincerely and some can be done hypocritically.
And.
It is, it is interesting, just going back to the point we're make about sharing possessions.
One of the evidence is, well, one of the interesting things about The 2 groups that I mentioned, those who had given all their possessions and those who rose the special occasions, is the NIV.
Where it says from time to time. In other words, believers sharing possessions from time to time.
It's the only version that uses that phrase. I don't know why I can't find it in anything else, but anyway, but let's go forward.
So we're looking at Ananias and Sephira here. And of course the question here is, This is a pretty severe situation that happened to them.
The case of Eden Ice and Sephira is opposite that of Barnabas, that was made to look the same.
Here the story probably circulated within the church as a warning of the awfulness of deceit.
For at times of great enthusiasm, such a warning is especially necessary. What is interesting here is if we look at the the details of what had occurred, it appears that Luke uses the Greek verb.
To describe what they did is is they kept back a portion or they They put aside for oneself or even the word could be as strong as they.
Took in a sense of just kind of deceitfully holding back. And this seems to be kind of compared to Joshua Chapter 7 verses one through 26 where Aiken takes of the things that were dedicated to God.
Remember the children Visual were warned not to take of the pagan possessions that they saw and Akin did do that.
He hid it under his tent. And of course we have that dramatic situation where Joshua. Go stick the clan and then the tribe and then the family.
As he's narrowing down who did it, Aiken never says anything and then finally he's found out and the Lord punishes, punishes him and his family by the earth just opens up in their swallow.
So the implication seems to draw parallel between the S of Aiken as the Israelites began their conquest of Canaan.
And the sin of Ananias and Sephira. As the church began its mission. Both incidents coming under the immediate and drastic judgment of God.
And teaching a sobering lesson here. This is very likely how the early church saw the incident as well.
So Peter doesn't view this as just something that is she just they both casually forgot something this was looked as Deliberate and, he spoke of it as, as, as if it were inspired by Satan.
And the case of deceit was. An affront to the church, not just on the community level, but primarily before God.
And so it was dealt with. Now of course the Lord doesn't do that today or if he does, we don't really see that.
But the point is that in the early church, this is how the Lord. Punished the sin but also warned the others about the sobriety of what was going on in the early church.
It seems that An and I and Survivor were severely dealt with because of the voluntary nature of their act of pretended piety.
Because of the greater freedom permitted in the church at Jerusalem. Given to individual Christians to be responsible and So, in and I's in a nice and Sapphire attempted to reach their goals.
How they intended to do that was much different than how Barnabas had done this and it didn't go unchallenged.
So just some thoughts on that. I don't know if you have any thoughts on this portion here.
It's. You know, it's a sobering portion. Yes.
Yeah. Before that.
First 3, Okay. Yes. Right.
Lacing always spirit on the same level as God. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Right.
Yes. I had a comment. Yes. Seems to be a disembodied voice coming from the back.
I'm way back here. Okay. So whenever I think of I get a mixed up with aquila and Priscilla.
Just because the names are similar. But they're the complete opposites. When it comes to, yeah, what they did.
So Ananias and Sapphire. Or not the good example. Yeah, they're not.
In fact, they're names. It's interesting. Yeah. Well, the name, no, but Anna and I since the fire rive to find where I wrote.
Let's see. Oh, so Ananias means God is gracious. And Sephira means beautiful.
Well. They disappeared from the scene, certainly. Anyway, just a couple of points here.
So verse 11, so great fear came upon all the church. And upon all those who heard these things.
So there are some parts of the story that we don't quite understand. They were buried very quickly.
And then of course his wife is interviewed, both suffer the same fate. But anyway, it's just a one of these very, very interesting stories that are told.
What's interesting also about Verse 11 is this is the first time the word church, ecclesia, peers in the book of Acts.
So. Now we come back to another theme that Luke picks up and remember last time we talked about the fact that there are these continuing themes and so Luke mentions in Acts 3 this is the portion that Jim did where Peter and John Heal a lame man.
And then they use it as a platform for preaching and then they get pulled in front of the Sanhedrin.
And we talked about the power of the Sanhedrin. This is effectively going before almost like the US Supreme Court.
They held a lot of power. This is terrifying for men. They were formerly probably illiterate.
But now as we looked at, for instance, in X 2, we see Peter. And others under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit being able to draw insight from the Word of God and such.
And so they use it as a platform for preaching. They get in front of the Sanhedrin and they're effectively warned to be silent.
We come into this chapter and We find out that the apostles again go before the Sanhedrin.
There are reigned or they're given a summons to appear. And so let's look at this particular portion here.
Starting in verse 12. It says, and through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were done among the people.
And they were all with one accordance in Solomon's porch, yet none of the rest dared join them at the people of steamed them highly.
Verse 14 and believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches.
That at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. Also over 16 a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those were tormented by unclean spirits and they were all healed.
So Luke then takes the occasion in telling the apostles, talking about the apostle second appearance before the council.
San to emphasize the development of these kind of early Christian attitudes with respect to the deepening jealousy and the development of these kind of early Christian attitudes with respect to the deepening jealousy and antagonism of the Sadducees.
He also introduces the moderation of the Pharisees. We'll see that in Gamel a little bit later.
And he likes to juxtapose things. He places this in contrast to the increasing joy and confident of the Christians.
Remember as I was coming down here as listening to Philippians on a CD. And Paul says this, you know, I'm in chains because I was preaching the gospel and it caused other believers to grow in confidence.
It's exactly what's happening here. They are suffering persecution. There is great joy. Because of that and so Luke.
Met the reverential fear aroused by the offland of ananias and and the increasing number of people who believed.
So. Luke now is making a transition from the deceit to Vanan Ice and Sephira to the Apostle second appearance before the San.
And he. He moves.
Let's see here. I'm just trying to cut this down because the time here. In defiance of the council order, the apostles continue to carry on their ministry among the people with many miraculous signs and wonders.
If you kind of summarize this, what is happening is that they're kind of 3 groups of people that he focuses on or highlights.
The Christians and their continuing meaning together in Solomon's colonnade, the unbelieving Jews and their reluctance to associate too closely with the Christians.
And then the responsive Jews, the people. And they're honoring the Christians. Many men and women were coming to believe in the Lord and being added to the number of Christian believers.
So a couple of other contrasts that Luke makes as healing virtue had flowed from Jesus just by touching in faith the edge of his cloak.
Think about Mark 5. Luke tells us also of extraordinary situations where even Peter Peter's shadow was used by God to affect a cure.
So we can see these parallels. As he says, you know, you will do. Things in my name and even greater things than me.
Whereas in fact, we think about the healing of the lame man, which aroused the sad you see's anger.
Now, and that was one miracle, now numerous miracles are occurring and they're getting pretty angry about this.
Why? Because we explained last time. They're into the status quo. They don't want any disruptions.
They do not believe in the resurrection. Angels. Though all of those things cause disruptions and such and they simply wanted to continue, they had a relationship with the Roman government, they don't want that upset and this is upsetting the crowds and and of course could be a trouble for them.
So, also as they did with Jesus, the crowds are thronging the the apostles they're crowding around they're they're they're starting to gather crowds and such and of course the sadgacies who are the power brokers.
Are concerned about this. So let's take a look at the arrest or the second appearance of the Sadducees in front, I'm sorry, the apostles in front of the Sadducees.
Couple of facts. Verse 7, Luke makes kind of connector statements at the beginning of each of these sections here with respect to them getting in front of the Sadducees in verse 17, Luke writes that they rose up.
Introducing the arrest and trial of the apostles versus 17 through 33. They stood up introducing Gamel Ale's wild wise council of moderation.
And also he mentions the words so they at inverse 41 beginning the statements about the apostles rejoicing.
So it's They are brought before the San. Gamela L's council comes out of that and then there's rejoicing in continuing ministry here.
So
Let's see, what do we got here?
So the, the puzzles before before before the San, ultimately they're put in prison.
And then they're released. And let's go to verse 20 here.
So let's just back up a second. So, verse 17 says then the high priest rose up and all those are with them which is the sect of the Sadducees and they were filled with indignation.
And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. But at night an angel of Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.
So here they're told to stand or hold their ground to stand firm. The word go in that verse suggests they're determined steadfastness.
Which in the face of Sad you see in opposition they're they're determined to do. They also spoke to the people all the words.
In spite of the St. Hadr's a desire to silence them and their focus was on This life or this new life, this life is salvation.
This life and salvation are synonymous terms here in New Testament. And the apostles had been miraculously released and they were divinely commissioned to do to that is to exactly do what they were told to do.
There are 3 instances of prison releases and acts. The first one here, x 5 19, and then Peter in chapter 12 and then Paul in chapter 16.
So one commentator mentioned that there seems to be, there, there were some tales, I guess, in historical documents.
Or mythological things about prison doors breaking open and you know kind of supernatural forces in this particular case we see 3 examples of Lord intervening for his servants to open prison doors and such.
So. Kind of moving along a little bit quicker here. That clock keeps moving. Stop it, Joel.
Just kidding. Let's see here. One of the things that we can focus on a little bit later here is.
The role of Gamel Lail and his wise council. Let's go down to verse 34 through 39.
It says here. Going up to verse 33. Peter uses this opportunity before the council to preach to them The Sadducees are very concerned about as they say in verse 28 that they say and look you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and you're intent to bring this man's blood on us.
Course Peter answers and the other apostles answer the very famous line. We ought to obey God rather than men, the God of our fathers, raised to Jesus, raised up Jesus, who will be murdered by hanging on a tree.
So look at the boldness of the apostles before this very powerful court here. And they preach what's going on and verse 33 says when they the sadges heard this they were furious and plotted to kill them.
And here is then this this interesting portion here, verse 34, then one in the council stood up a Pharisee.
Named Gamel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while.
And his counsel is to see and to wait whether this is going to develop into something. And Luke seems to be contrasting the.
Strictness and ferocity of the sadgeses with the mildness or relatively mild nature of the Pharisees, a sect of the Pharisees and how they deal with punishments and and and the wisdom that they apply here and and so therefore after a beating their let go the apostles And, verse 40 just to kind of finish up here, verse 40 of chapter 5 says this.
And they agreed with Gamel A, the Sadducees, and when they had called the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.
Verse 41. So they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
And daily in the temple in every house they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
And I just wanted to make a couple of comments here.
So Luke ends his narrative here of the Apostles second appearance before the Sanhedrin with a brief summary that speaks of their rejoicing and continuing ministry.
It's a statement that has. Nuances of defiance, confidence, and victory. And in many ways it gathers, gathers together all Luke has set forth from that.
Thesis of his starting in lack, at chapter 2, verse 42 and on. All of these miraculous things that were occurring, all of the events that are happening.
Because the Holy Spirit is out been outpoured and the church is beginning to form here. Or the early church is primitive churches here.
First 41 Lou connects his summary statement with his narrative by using one of his favorite kind of connecting verses.
I'm sorry, connecting words so and then and so he says this. He stresses the fact that just as the apostles perform miracles through the power of the name of Jesus and proclaimed that name before the people in council.
So they rejoice when counted worthy of suffering disgrace for his name. And then in verse 42, Luke tells us they never stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.
Coming to a close here, there is a, again, another correlation between the thesis paragraph chapter 2 verses 42 through 47.
And in the phrase in the temple courts and from house to house. They continued. So the point is that by inference here, there's a note of continuance and an anticipation of the final words that Luke has to say.
Inverse in chapter 28 verse 31 they went boldly and without hindrance And that's where I'll finish up for tonight.
And then we'll have Joseph. Who will be making a special appearance. So any questions, any thoughts?
Mike probably knows a lot more about this than I do, but, These are exciting passages and a lot going on here.
About the only church. Any thoughts?
Okay. Ananias, I'm sorry, Priscilla and Aquila are not killed in this manner.
Yeah, I'm getting him. So I wanted to make a A few points. So.
With the death of And then the apostles. Being able to perform miracles.
And then, the, putting them into prison and they're miraculously taken out.
I would. I would almost feel like. Some of these passages could be used to show that.
If you're a Christian. That things are gonna work out your way perfectly on the earth.
And that your enemies are gonna be. Sniffed out and They're gonna drop dead. And I think.
These kind of passages can be used out of context pretty easily. And. But how would you answer Ray?
The events that have taken place just even in this chapter. And related to. You know, how we live today.
And you know, people. Steal from the church and get away with it or you know, that there's things that happen today where people aren't necessarily punished for each action.
So I'm just, I'd be curious to hear how you would, answer that. I think that what I read consistently and maybe Mike would have something to say about this but it's in the establishment of these new institutions that it seems that the Lord
Brings down the hammer. Because for instance, you know, we have. Again, the situation with A and we think of.
Other situations, the rebellion of Cora. I mean, certainly there was rebellion against leaders.
I mean, Cora is a dramatic example, but it seems like the Lord in the institution of things brings the hammer down.
I don't know, Mike, what's your thought on that? It has to do. With this very early initial stage of the charge.
And, and I think there's some.
I think there's some intentional. Reflecting back on those full test events that you were talking about.
Those are also establishment of this room as God's people. And so you have the same. The same sorts and conditions.
You're not. The another thing is that what's emphasize is that the book of Acts is not a book where you would take doctrine from.
So you do have historical narrative and all sorts of things that are occurring. I would like to hear your response on that a little bit too to Neil's question about some of these.
And how you would apply them today. The idea that our enemies don't prompt that. Well, I mean, I guess that maybe, yeah, well, no, I guess the thing is how would you apply this book to today I mean, we can draw examples from church history and such and there are solid things and and they develop.
Certainly Stephen says much more about Christ than what was said previously, but it is a it's a it's in historical book.
I mean, that's really the
I would be willing to build. From things that we learn and ask but I think You have to be very careful.
You know, it's not like Paul where Paul is clearly teaching.com.
It's not very hard. To extrapolate from ball to. Right, access is giving us a narrative.
And I think we can build that from the things we learned there, but I think we have to be very careful to look at the context.
And I mean, if we look at these contacts.
You even highlighted some of it. It's not that all your enemies are gonna drop that just to point that out.
It's not just that anybody who's you know, holding back a little bit or whatever is going to be visibly and immediately punished.
They were lying to the Holy Spirit and bringing shame upon the Holy Spirit. But what they did. And maybe an additional element was interfering with.
Yeah, potentially intervening with the unity that was displayed or corrupting it or attempting to draw people.
So it's seems to be really serious. Yes, John. Yeah, and also, there's a lot of, I guess you'd say bad things that happen too.
Steven is, and then Paul is successful in, you know.
Going after the church and believers and imprisoning them and not everyone was rescued not everyone had a miraculous event in their lives some people died.
Period so there's no promise of any kind of deliverance like that. Good. A missionary from Danger?
Absolutely. But there's no again promise that that's gonna happen for
Yeah, and even in the examples of like Princeton speaking in tongues, you think about X 2, they were speaking in a known language.
They were speaking about Jesus Christ for the issue of spreading the gospel message there you know and Seems, you know, when the canon is closed and those.
That seems to have gone away, you know, certainly, but. Passinating book and thank you for the discussion.
And I will turn. Got another one, Ray. Oh, good. Bring it on.
I got one more comment about G Because I think he's an interesting character and He, so he says what he says about the men in a very favorable way essentially.
And he's basically sparing them any further punishment. And I just wonder. There was somebody I mean he it's clear he was highly respected.
I am. And so I think. I have this feeling that some would have been in that meeting and thought.
There is no way these guys. This is what they're doing is from God. This is from or from, you know, demons.
But the Bible doesn't record anyone saying that and it and they were let go. So there was no real.
It doesn't appear that there was anyone that stood up and said, no, we need to. You know, get rid of these guys and you know, snuff it out now.
So I think it's really interesting that the males Advice didn't or his suggestion didn't get overruled.
Bye. Maybe some of the others that would be like, maybe even Paul himself. Yeah, I mean, what's interesting is Conte is and, oh, go ahead, John. Did you wanna?
Yeah. Okay. Good book. Yeah.
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No, I'm saying. I've done, And.
Just last thing with Neil discussion, you know, it's interesting that and there's a lot of commentary on this, my goodness, I mean, but the thing is that the Sadducees held the party, they were a minority party, but they held power.
Gemel and the Pharisees didn't have that much power in comparison to them, but that the respect they give this man causes them to consider.
And to back off from wanting to kill these guys. But it's interesting that out of the same camp you have Paul who's studied under the feet of Gabelail and he is like zealous as you know he member of 9 opens up with him breathing threats and murder so it's it's hard to understand but he is I my sense is just by opinion I don't Mike you're oppression
or someone else maybe but it seems this is the Pharisees had at least a broader concept of who the Lord was or at least we're all willing to allow more things and maybe that brought the fear of the Lord in them that this might be something that is more than.
But just a thought. And, go ahead, please. I think I think you're right about the and I think that We have.
We have a little bit of bias you against the Pharisees because they in Christ come into conflict so much in the Gospels.
But I think one thing that's important to recognize is the reason Christ comes into conflict with the Pharisees so much is that they agree on so much that they have something to argue about.
He can't conflict with the sadges. As often just as one example because They hardly even have anything to talk about.
They can't find grounds for disagreement, whereas the Pharisees you know, they're, they're much much closer.
So yeah, Percy's. Or theologically they're overboard but they're much more on target.
Hmm. Well, let's let's have Jim come up then with the nonsense. Thank you very much.