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To: onedoug
I entertain an endless fascination with Jesus as a Jew

Yes ... me too! I have often pondered how I, as a religious Jew, would have responded to His teachings, were I alive back then. Especially this one:

He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
and went according to his custom
into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
"Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."

Luke 4:14-21

40 posted on 01/27/2004 12:27:05 PM PST by NYer ("One person and God make an army." - St. Teresa of Avila)
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