David Journal

Tag: Luke

  • Jairus

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    What is it like to go seeking a miracle from the Savior? Many people know that feeling. It leaves you feeling humble and at least a little bit apprehensive. What would it feel like when He began following you home to perform the desired miracle of healing your sick daughter? I would feel hopeful and…

  • Joseph of Arimathea

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    Joseph of Arimathea was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin but unlike our traditional view of Pharisees he was apparently open to the truths taught by the Savior. We can only speculate about how publicly he accepted those truths but we know that he allowed the followers of Jesus to bury Him in…

  • The Centurion

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    How was it that a Roman centurion came to display greater faith than Christ has seen asking the Jews? It was because he had learned to recognize the marks of real authority, the kind that go beyond any outward insignia, and he sought truth honestly enough to recognize it in the religion of this provincial…

  • Simeon

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    I wish we knew more about Simeon. He was faithful enough to receive a promise that he would see the David his lifetime. I find his prophecy when he saw the infant Jesus that the child was set for the fall (and rising again) of many in Israel to be very interesting. W think of…

  • Zacharias

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    We can ask Zacharias what it is like to serve faithfully for a lifetime while being denied the posterity he hopes for and then to have a son promised but be unable to speak of it for nearly a year. I don’t know what he thought during that silence but the first thing he spoke…

  • Joseph ben Heli

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    A descendant of David and aimed by most in his day to be the father of Jesus Christ. I really wish that we knew more about the remarkable man who was entrusted with raising the Son of God. He would have taught the gospel in his home and modeled manly behavior to the savior of…

  • 6 August 2013

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    Luke 24 I have never noticed the details of the crucifixion and resurrection that Luke includes, this must be one of the less often related versions of those events. For example, who is Joanna? From the Bible dictionary I suspect that she out her husband, Chuza, were responsible for piquing Herod’s interest in Christ. Christ…

  • 5 August 2013

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    Luke 23 Herod had been wanting to see Christ perhaps because he vowed Him as being similar to John the Baptist whom he had reluctantly beheaded. He hoped to see a muscle but I’m not sure if that was for simple amusement or some more genuine form of curiosity. Herod was willing to try shaming…

  • 4 August 2013

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    Luke 22 Two factors made it necessary to have a betrayer. First, the chief priests didn’t want to take Jesus while there was a multitude present and second, they wouldn’t be present when He was taken. If they were willing to be present they could have identified Christ themselves. If they were willing to take…

  • 3 August 2013

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    Luke 21 I note that the story of the widows mite is not a parable, it was an observation of an actual occurrence. Christ promised His apostles that before all the wars, pestilences, earthquakes, etc. they would be persecuted, thrown in prison, and brought before kings. I would expect that we will see the BYU…