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NASB | Acts 2:46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:46 Day after day they met in the temple [area] continuing with one mind, and breaking bread in various private homes. They were eating their meals together with joy and generous hearts, |
Subject: Which sacrifices have ended? |
Bible Note: Luke, "This is as crazy and ignorant an approach to Scripture as the guy who asked for divine guidance and accidentally fingered the verse about how Judas "went and hanged himself" (Mt 27:5) and then fingered "Go, and do likewise" (Lk 10:37). "A Classic Misreading "the first thing we have to do in reading Scripture is realize that we are listening in on a conversation between the authors and an audience that is not us. That doesn't mean it doesn't apply to us. Rather it means that we can only apply it to ourselves once we realize how it was intended to be applied by the writer in the context of the lives of his audience. "A classic example of this is the shocking remark of the crowd at the crucifixion which is recorded in Matthew 27:25: "His blood be on us and on our children!" Matthew records this remark, not to declare the Jews "accursed," but to point out a sort of divine pun. "The irony of these words is, of course, that this is precisely the prayer of every Christian for himself. The mob is not calling down a curse on Jews in Matthew. It is unconsciously speaking prophetically, like Caiaphas when he says, "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish" (Jn 11:50). Matthew and his readers likewise get the divine pun. They see that what the mob intended for evil, God has turned to good. Every time we approach the cup we ask for His blood to be upon us. Every time we baptize our babies, we pray His blood will be upon our children. "But if we are not familiar with the way Matthew and his audience think, we can easily begin to make the error of so many Christians who did not see the divine pun and who therefore committed the heinous sin of pretending that "Jesus died because of Those Jews Over There, not because of me." In doing so, we effectively deny that Jesus died for our sins, a rather serious thing for a Christian to deny — and far more culpable than the average non-Christian who knows nothing of Jesus and comes no closer to knowing thanks to witless anti-Semites who heap the blame on Jews while forgetting that it was their own sins that put Jesus on the Cross." http://www.catholicexchange.com Mark P. Shea, Hearing Scripture on Its Own Terms Emmaus |