BIBLE STUDY --- THE GOOD SHEPHERD

NEWS TOO GOOD TO KEEP

From Matthew 9:27-31

When Yeshua left Jairus’ home, two blind men followed, begging Him for help. [Take pity on us, O Son of David,] they shouted. The blind men followed Yeshua into the house where He was going. Then Yeshua talked with them about their need. [Do you believe that I can help you see?] He asked, [Yes, we certainly do, Adonai,] they answered. Then Yeshua touched their eyes. [You will now see as much as you believe,] He told them. Immediately the men were well again. [You must not tell anyone about this,] Yeshua told them sternly. But the news was too good to keep, so the men went all over that part of the country, telling people about Yeshua.

POWER OVER DEMONS

From Matthew 9:32-34

The two men were leaving when some people brought another man in need to Yeshua. This man could not talk because a demon lived in him. As soon as Yeshua drove the demon from the man, he started talking again. The people were greatly amazed to see that. [We’ve never seen anything like this in Israel before,] they said. The Pharisees, however, gave their jealous answer. [Yeshua gets His power over demons from the chief of demons,] they said to the people.

BACK HOME IN NAZARETH

From Mark 6:1-6

With His disciples, Yeshua left this part of the country and went home to Nazareth. When the Shabbat day came, He went to the synagogue to teach. The people who heard Him were surprised that a local boy had grown up with such wisdom and power. [Where did He get all this wisdom?] they wondered. [How does He do these miracles? Isn’t He merely the carpenter Who lived here with His mother Mary and His brothers -- James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? And aren’t His sisters living here among us?] The people refused to accept Him, but Yeshua told them, [Wherever a prophet goes, he receives honour, except in his home town among his relatives and family.] Because the people of Nazareth would not believe, Yeshua did very few miracles among them. A few people were healed when He placed His hands on them, but Yeshua wondered at the unbelief of the others.

COMMENTARY

THE SUFFERING OF THE BLIND

In Yeshua’ time a blind person suffered much more than he would today. There was almost no opportunity for a blind person to earn a living, so he was forced to beg or steal. Frequently the blind sat on street corners or at the entrance to a synagogue or the temple, depending on the more fortunate to have mercy. Blind people often depended on others to lead them from place to place. There was little medical help available for the blind, and what was available could do nothing of consequence. Surgery for the eyes was hundreds of years in the future. There was a social stigma for the blind also. Blindness was often considered a curse from YHVH. It was a punishment for the blind person’s sins or the sins of the parents. Blindness was common in ancient times. Much of it came from improper medical care and unsanitary conditions. One of the most common forms of blindness was the infection of children’s eyes, brought about by swarms of flies which moved from one infected eye to another. Some cultures thought it was unlucky to remove deposits which flies left on and around the eyes, so the victim had no hope. And often the victim was an infant. Widespread disease caused many to be born blind or to go blind in later life. So common was this form of blindness that an ancient manuscript listed more than a hundred prescriptions to cure it. With the hopeless plight of the blind, one can only imagine the excitement Yeshua caused when He healed the blind, something no doctor of His day could do.

Should Sabbath Keepers go to restaurants on the Sabbath?

Yesterday on Sabbath, a Sabbath keeping friend of mine wanted me to meet him with another Sabbath keeper at a coffee shop on the Sabbath. I refused to do so because I don't believe that buying and selling on the Sabbath is appropriate.

Nehemiah 13:15-21 NKJV speaks out against it which says:

In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling provisions. Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.” So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day. Now the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

The Seventh Day Adventists do not go to restaurants on the Sabbath. G. Steven Simons of Triumph In Truth Ministries also speaks out against it. The Church of God offshoots of Herbert W. Armstrong see nothing wrong with going to restaurants on Sabbath which is where my friend is from.

Thoughts?

Thought for Today: Sunday November 23

Those who seem to be the strongest on the outside, are often the weakest on the inside. But YHVH sees our weaknesses in others as well. And just as He wants to help us deal with our own weaknesses, so He wants to use us to help others deal with theirs. Ask YHVH to make you sensitive to those around you who are weak – whatever their weakness may be – and to help them, both in practical ways and by pointing them to the Moshiach and His transforming Power and Love.

When Yeshua was cleansing the temple from things that should not be there, did you notice how he cleansed it of 'blind and lame'? 2Sa 5:6-8, according to Mat 21:14? I notice this today.

As an important detail not present in the other Gospels, I suppose it supports Matthean Posteriority. A writer supposedly writing from Matthew is not likely to decide, "Nah, let's leave out those amazing healings. They are not so important."

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