A Talmidi friend recently asked me, “How do we cope with the presence of evil in our world, and not fall into a state of mind whereby we blame God for allowing evil and heinous things to happen?” Let’s approach this problem from the extreme position....
The seventeenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 7:3-5 and Lk 6:41-42. The likely origin of the pericope is the Q-gospel. 17. 1There were some who were hypocrites, and judged others without examining their own actions first. 2And Yeshua said to them, ‘Why...
The sixteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Luke18:9-14, which is the sole source of this pericope. It could have come from the Q-gospel, but that would mean that the author of Matthew chose not to use it for some reason. The Jesus Seminar assigned it the...
The fifteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mk 3:24-25, Mt 12.25, Lk 11:17. The differences between the saying in Mark, compared with the one in Matthew and Luke (which are more similar to each other), are sufficient to conclude that the version in Matthew...
The fourteenth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mk 2:22, Mt 9:17, Lk 5:37-39, and Thomas 47:3-4. As with SY passage 13, the main source of this saying is from Mark (Matthew and Luke both borrow from Mark, and so they both place the saying where Mark places it)....
