What's your favorite single chapter of the bible? That is, your desert island bible chapter?
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Mine is Mark 12. Certainly not the longest at only 44 verses. But there's a huge amount of wisdom packed into those 44 verses. The parable of the tenants. "The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner." Jesus answered the trick questions of 1) the Pharisees, 2) the Sadducee and 3) the Scribes. "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (<an answer to a trick question that left the Pharisees in awe.)
Jesus recounted the two greatest commandments: "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
Jesus posed a paradox: "For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?"
And the widow's mites. All this in Mark 12.
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What's your favorite chapter?
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Mine is Mark 12. Certainly not the longest at only 44 verses. But there's a huge amount of wisdom packed into those 44 verses. The parable of the tenants. "The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner." Jesus answered the trick questions of 1) the Pharisees, 2) the Sadducee and 3) the Scribes. "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (<an answer to a trick question that left the Pharisees in awe.)
Jesus recounted the two greatest commandments: "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
Jesus posed a paradox: "For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?"
And the widow's mites. All this in Mark 12.
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What's your favorite chapter?