Many
years ago I was in Chicago doing research on Yeshua, the Jewish Jesus, with a
friend. We were in a university library in downtown Chicago when the professor we
were visiting with called out, “Hey
Yeshua!” I quickly turned in the direction she was looking and saw a young
man wave at her. But, for a split second, my brain was expecting to see another
Yeshua – and that was a very weird experience.
For years the only Yeshua in my mind was Jesus -- and I really wasn’t expecting
to see him that day in Chicago. Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/01/jesus-in-context.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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