EDIT: Substack is having some trouble today. No image and we’ll be lucky if this post gets out. Day 26 Lent 2023 Let’s try a different tact today. Luke chapter 8 is a very long chapter. This one might take a while. Let’s get started. 1Soon afterwards, He began going around from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God. The twelve were with Him,
Mark, thank you for these great devotions during Lent. Something came to mind as I read Luke 8:51, "And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden." There are at least three times, that I can think of, where Jesus included only the disciples Peter, James, and John, as eyewitnesses. Peter, James, and John were eyewitnesses at the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-3), they witnessed Jesus raise Jarius's daughter from the dead (Luke 8:49-56), and they accompanied Jesus while He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-38.) I wonder what the significance of that is? Were they just Jesus' closest disciples or perhaps He wanted them to be eyewitnesses to these events, to strengthen their faith?
Mark, thank you for these great devotions during Lent. Something came to mind as I read Luke 8:51, "And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden." There are at least three times, that I can think of, where Jesus included only the disciples Peter, James, and John, as eyewitnesses. Peter, James, and John were eyewitnesses at the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-3), they witnessed Jesus raise Jarius's daughter from the dead (Luke 8:49-56), and they accompanied Jesus while He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-38.) I wonder what the significance of that is? Were they just Jesus' closest disciples or perhaps He wanted them to be eyewitnesses to these events, to strengthen their faith?