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1 | Jesus calls Herod a 'fox'? | Luke 13:32 | Makarios | 8338 | ||
Jesus calls King Herod a 'fox' in Luke 13:32.. What is the full meaning of this word used in the context? Also, how do we interpret this in light of Matthew 5:22? | ||||||
2 | Jesus calls Herod a 'fox'? | Luke 13:32 | Searcher56 | 8418 | ||
Nolan ... A fox is small, cunning, troublesome, and noted for killing harmless creatures. Let me ask you, were these Pharisees really concerned about Jesus? Or was it something else? I am thinking He may of thinking they were foxes, too. I say this based on the word "that." In Luke 23:6-12, Herod eagerly wants to meet this man of God, not to kill him but to witness miracles and to hear Jesus’ words of wisdom. Jesus had a purpose to what he was doing. Jesus had a plan (vv. 32-33), the Pharisees, nor Herod could detour or deter Him. Mark 3:6 indicates that the Herodians and Pharisees began to plot how to Kill Jesus. We see this plot again in 12:13. So why do the Pharisees warn Jesus? Steve Searching Scripture PS I am not sure how to interpret this in light of Matthew 5:22. I do not see a relationship. |
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3 | Jesus calls Herod a 'fox'? | Luke 13:32 | Ray | 8425 | ||
Hi Steve Butler, You write that Jesus had a plan, (vv.32-33). What a glorious plan that this Prophet would go to Jerusalem to die and be raised on the third day. I gave Nolan Keck a quote from Barclay's "the Gospel of Luke" and leave you one also about the Pharisees, from "The Daily Study Bible Series," p.185. "Because of the behind-the-scenes insight that it gives into the life of Jesus, this is one of the most interesting passages in Luke's gospel. (i) It gives us the, at first sight, surprising information that not all the Pharisees were hostile to Jesus. Here we have some of them actually warning him that he was in danger, and advising him to seek safety. It is true that from the gospels we do get a one-sided picture of the Pharisees. The Jews themselves knew very well that there were good and bad Pharisees. They divided them into seven different classes. (a)The Shoulder Pharisees. These wore their good deeds on their shoulder and performed them to be seen of men. (b) The Wait-a-little Pharisees. They could always find a good excuse for putting off a good deed until to-morrow. (c) The Bruised or Bleeding Pharisees. No Jewish Rabbi could be seen talking to any woman on the street, not even his wife or mother or sister. But certain of the Pharisee went further. They would not even look at a woman on the street; they even shut their eyes to avoid seeing a woman; they, therefore, knocked into walls and houses and bruised themselves; and then exhibited their bruises as special badges of extraordinary piety. (d) The Pesle-and-Mortar of Hump-backed Pharisees. They walked bent double in a false and cringing humility; they were the Uriah Heeps of Jewish religion. (e) The Ever-reckoning Pharisees. They were ever reckoning up their good deeds and, as it were, striking a balance-sheet of profit and loss with God. (f) The Timid or Fearing Pharisees. They went ever in fear of the wrath of God. They were, as it was said of Burns, not helped but haunted by their religion. (g) The God-loving Pharisees. They were copies of Abraham and lived in faith and charity. There may have been six bad Pharisees for every good one; but this passage shows that even amongst the Pharisees there were those who admired and respected Jesus." |
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