Yesterday,
in the BHC Bible Study Blog, I
wrote Comparing
Parallel Accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures. Anytime parallel accounts,
or things that look like parallel accounts appear in your Bible, they always
present great opportunities to discover some very interesting, and sometimes,
unexpected things. This will be true in the subject of this blog – The Greatest Commandment & Eternal Life.
If you want to have some fun – and exercise
your powers of observation – get some paper and a pen (the old fashion way
of studying). Below you will find three accounts that are often considered to
be about the same event. Read the complete study at -- http://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-greatest-commandment-eternal-life.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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