This paper draws on extant literature to identify five dimensions that are deployed by a wide range of social groups to claim and achieve authenticity in variety of social settings: being honest or real, forgoing external rewards or compensation, coming from or living in the right place or ...
So you shame me for not trying again, as if I’m just lazy or over dramatic, while you insist that not all churches are bad. Perhaps, that’s true. Not all. But, what you don’t seem to understand is that, respectfully, I don’t go to church because so much of it has become ...
After the wedding, Jesus, Mary, and his disciples traveled to Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Passover. At the temple, they saw money changers and merchants selling goods. In a rare display of anger, Jesus overturned the tables and, with a whip made of cords, drove them out, declar...
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Less than ten years later, a soldier watching over Jews celebrating the Passover at the Temple (according to historian Josephus, writing in about 90 C.E.) "raised his robe, stooped in an indecent attitude, so as to turn his backside to the Jews, and made a noise in keeping with his ...
Jesus at the Temple - Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money
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6Flavius Josephus, “Antiquities” 20.9.1. An excellent further reference isMisconceptions about Jesus and the Passover, a lecture series by Dwight Pryor, available fromwww.jcstudies.com.