And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem. Esther had not made known her people orContinue reading “Esther 2: 9-14….This sounds complex and horrible!”
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Esther 2: 1-8….What next?
After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king. And let the king appoint officers in all the provincesContinue reading “Esther 2: 1-8….What next?”
Esther 1: 16-22….Seems basically wrong!
Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them toContinue reading “Esther 1: 16-22….Seems basically wrong!”
Esther 1: 10-15…..How dare you refuse!
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and theContinue reading “Esther 1: 10-15…..How dare you refuse!”
Esther 1: 1-9….Extravagance!
Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and MediaContinue reading “Esther 1: 1-9….Extravagance!”
John 5: 18…..How important is this?
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Comment: Whom we believe Jesus is makes the world of difference to how we think and live. We have justContinue reading “John 5: 18…..How important is this?”
John 5: 9-17….Was the Seventh Day Special.
And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healedContinue reading “John 5: 9-17….Was the Seventh Day Special.”
John 5: 1-9a…..That’s miraculous!
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eightContinue reading “John 5: 1-9a…..That’s miraculous!”
John 4: 46-54….Jesus seems to almost brush this man off!
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he wasContinue reading “John 4: 46-54….Jesus seems to almost brush this man off!”
John 4: 28 & 39-45…..Fantastic.
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him…….Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of theContinue reading “John 4: 28 & 39-45…..Fantastic.”
As I read it! 