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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT2)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, bible times, chief, chief tax collector, Christ, collector, dramatic, everyday life in bible times, God, God the Father, God the Son, God's House, greed, Jericho, jesus, Jew, Jewish, Jewish leaders, jews, love, Luke, Mark, Matthew, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, prostitutes, Sin, sin-ruined world, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, tax, tax collector, Tax Collectors, teach, Zacchaeusabarkley8

We also find Jesus using the perceptions linked with tax collectors to jolt the Jewish leaders from their complacency. While he was teaching in the temple courts during the final week of his life on earth, Jesus frequently clashed with the Jewish leaders, who questioned his authority and resisted his invitations to know him as their Savior from sin.

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EVERYDAY BIBLE LIFE (CRUCIFY)

June 29, 2021UncategorizedAngel, carbon dioxide, Christ, clear, crime, crowd, crucify, dead, death, Emmaus, everyday bible times, facts, form of public execution, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, greeks, hill, humiliating death, Jerusalem, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish leaders, jews, lifeless, Luke, lungs, Matthew, narrator, new testament, Old Testament, Persians, Phoenicians, pilate, road, Romans, several days, sights, smells, soldiers, sounds, victim, wide, witnessesabarkley8

The sights, sounds, and smells of any form of public execution are never pleasant, but it is hard to find a method of execution more disturbing than crucifixion. The notion of crucifixion seems to have grown from the practice of impaling lifeless of living persons on a post. This practice morphed into crucifixion and was employed by the Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Jews, and eventually Romans.

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