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Originally posted by Preach
How would the people who heard Christ (pre-passion) understand "the Gospel"?
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It's all there, in the Text, B.
The Jews would refer to the Bible of the day: the Old Testament.
Be careful to consider: the error of the Pharissees was man's addition to God's Law (the ten commandments) focusing on man-centered worship and working to please God. Religious, self-righteous zealots, arrogantly clinging to their idea of God.
Jesus confronts them and says they do not understand the Scriptures (he wrote the OT!) correcting their error. In many cases, the Jews Jesus condemned knew exactly who He was and yet accused him of being in league with Satan.
Not to start a fight -- but careful examination reveals that the Pharisees were no different than our present day Theonomists. They insisted that God's Law and from it, a "kingdom" be established upon the earth, in a political sense. The moment the Jewish people realized Jesus wasn't going to be their political savior, they rejected him. Some of the people saw him as a "meal ticket" (feeding the 5 thousand.)
It all really comes down to: "who do you say that I am?" --- Jesus
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