Bethany, the village of adulteress Mary, is at the Mount of Olives and Jesus has just been there ‘(Jn 8,1)…while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives 2 But early in the mourning he arrived again in the temple area…’. This happened the very next morning. We cannot say that it happened in any other day. So Jesus was not faced with a stranger at all. Mount of Olives had a very small community of Bethany and Bethphage (Sadducee majority and practically everybody knew everybody). The Sadducees did not persecute Jesus, so he often found refuge at their Mount of Olives. Jesus spent enough time there and could have easily seen her before.
So Jesus bends down buying time and thinking how to exploit the situation. He has a doomed woman on his hands, who would owe him her life but only if he could save her now. “Bent down and began to write on the ground”??? Who bends down and writes on the ground?… A person in deep thought, plotting a scheme, in mood, or all!!! So, he bends down, buying time and thinking of a way to outsmart the Jews and save her life. Thinking…Thinking…
7 But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” 8 Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
Thinking again…
9 And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
He outsmarts the Jews, saves the life of a doomed woman, and then gets alone with her. Now Jesus is alone with a sinful woman who owes him her life. There are no witnesses at all. Jesus can ask her anything to repay her debt to him. Jesus has the motive, opportunity to negotiate a deal with her, no witnesses, knows how to contact her later…
10 Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? 11 She replied, “No one, sir”. Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”
* She walks out of it, owing Jesus her life.
* He did not ‘forgive’ her now, because she has yet to pay him back.
* She did not thank him now, because she will surely pay him back big time.
Accordingly, the order of events becomes:
1. Jesus saves the life of sinful Mary.
2. Jesus raises the brother of sinful Mary.
3. Only now Jesus forgives the sins of Mary and preaches about people repaying debts to each other.
4. Jesus visits adulteress Mary who wants to keep the better part.
Now we have a much clearer and different picture of the whole story. It is very easy to put things together and deduce how Jesus saved the life of Mary when she was caught in adultery and was about to be stoned to death by the Jews. In return Jesus wanted her to do him a little favor. Jesus asked Mary to help him stage the death of her brother ‘Lazarus’ in order to convince his stupid disciples and the non-suspecting Jews that he is the Messiah, who can raise people from the dead… Mary conceded to the plan so that she can repay the large debt that they owed him. FOR she owed him her life.
Lazarus was simply repaying Jesus for saving his sister and cleansing her filthy reputation.
2006-06-27 15:48:54 · 6 answers · asked by Mahfuz R 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All well and fine but I think you may be getting your Marys mixed up. I believe that there may be two separate Marys. Mary Magdalene: the forgiven prostitute and Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus of whom Jesus was a close friend. Cross reference various commentaries and see if this may be correct.
2006-06-27 15:56:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do I start. Where did you get that her name was Mary? Much less that she is the same Mary who was the sister to Lazarus? That seems to be a extremely critical part to your conspiracy theory. With that part proven wrong I guess my work is done. Sorry you had to type so much. Maybe you should read more and type less. There was an old saying about God giving you 2 ears and 1 mouth. However with 10 fingers and 2 (or 4 in my case) eyes we could all be in danger.
2006-06-27 16:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by unicorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clearly the christian proposal of Messiah used to be and nonetheless may be very one of a kind from the Jewish proposal. If The fiction we name Jesus rather used to be Messiah, then the found out rabbis of the day might have a minimum of viewed him and verified him. I'm afraid that might no longer have desirable christian, they wanted to manufacture an intruder, who used to be reviled, crushed, and supposedly nailed to a tree. It's seen via the entire made-up, retrospective "prophecies" within the NT that the endeavor used to be no longer to disclose truths, however to creator them.
2016-08-31 09:48:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy cow!!! Do you all sit around thinking up this stuff? I really don't care that much about one story to go through all the trouble of coming up with all this , do you realize what a twisted mind it takes to add all this unproven nonsense to a story, just to under mine anothers faith, believe what you will, but my faith doesn't teach me that a act of kindness given to one person has to be paid back, it's done out of caring not for payment. My soul demands that I do acts of kindness for the sake of kindness alone. Do you really believe that every kind & good deed must be done with a motive.
I really feel sorry for you.
2006-06-27 16:09:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OR, he really was the messiah who could raise the dead, heal the blind crippled deaf and dumb , and forgive the wicked, and that huge made up conspiracy is a lie that took alot of time to think up and type.
2006-06-27 16:30:46 · answer #5 · answered by Lion's Blessing 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your really into conspiracies. Do you believe every one is out to get you? Why would anyone go to all that trouble just to get himself killed. He really was the messiah.
2006-06-27 15:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by gunnertcm6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋