புராணக் கதை பைபிள், பக்கத்து நாட்டு மக்களை மிகவும் கேவலமாக கர்த்தர் கூறுவதாகப் புனைந்ததைப் படித்தவர்கள். யூதர்கள் தங்களை இனரீதியில் உயர்ந்தவர் எனும் மூட  நம்பிக்கையில் உழல்பவர்கள்.

இயேசுவும் ஒரு பழமைவாத யூத இனவெறியராய் கிரேக்கப் பெண்ணை நாய் என்றார். தன்மானமுள்ள மனிதர் யாரும் இதை ஏற்க முடியாது. 

இதே விஷயத்தை நான் முன்பு என் வர்ட்பிரஸ் வலையிலும் தமிழ் ஹிந்துவிலும் எழுத, அதற்கு மறுப்பை இணைய நண்பர் யவனஜனம் சில்சாம் அவர் வலையில் மழுப்பல் எழுத- ஒரு கிறிஸ்துவர் பதில்(சில்சாமிற்கு நன்றி)

கர்த்தரின் மனைவிகள் பற்றி நண்பர் ஜார்ஜ் உதயகுமார் முகநூலில் எழுத இக்கதைப் பற்றி வர,  Theosgospelhall Tirupur எனும் பாதிரியார் விவாதத்தில் சேர பின் நடந்ததை பார்ப்போம்
//நண்பரே சமயம் என்பது மனிதன் செம்மைய் ஆகுதல், சமைத்தல் ஒழுக்கம் பெறல் என்பதே ஆகும்.சமயத்தைக் கொண்டு ஒழுக்கத்தோடு, மேலும் மேலும் அறிவை வளர்த்து நன்னெறியில் செல்வதற்கே சமயம். ஆனால் உன் சமயம் பொய், நீ வணங்குபவை கடவுளல்ல என இன்னொரு சமயம் நுழையும்போது மிக நிச்சயமாய் அது ஆய்வுக்கும் உள்ளாகும். ஆனால் சமயத்தின் பெயரில் நாங்கள் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கபப்ட்டவர்கள் என மண்ணின் மைந்தர்களை அடிமைபடுத்தலை பெருமையாய் புனைவது பைபிளாகும். யூதரல்லதவர்களை நாய் என்றும் பன்றி எனவும் இனவெறி பிடித்த யூதராய் வரலாற்று ஏசு உள்ளார். இதை மக்களிடை கொண்டு செல்வது சரியே.//

ஏசுவின் இனவெறி இங்கல்ல சீடர்களை முதலில் அனுப்பும்போதே காணலாம்

Jesus’ Ministry Strategy

The vision of a kingdom that included Jews and Gentiles was part of Jesus’ plan from the very beginning of His ministry. 

Jesus’ first sermon in his hometown of Nazareth demonstrates that His life purpose extended far beyond the nation of Israel. He was not surprised that His own people — the Jews — did not receive His message. “That’s the way it has always been,” He said. (Luke 4:24, author’s paraphrase). He then gave an example: “There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah … and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow” (Luke 4:25-26, ESV). His hearers knew the rest of the story told in the Old Testament book of 1 Kings 17. Received into a Gentile home, Elijah performed the remarkable miracle of replenishing the flour and oil, then later restored the widow’s son to life — not a Jewish widow, but a Gentile!

Jesus did not stop with the example from the ministry of the Prophet Elijah. He rubbed salt into the wounded feelings of His audience with the story of Naaman, the Syrian. He was not only a Gentile but a military leader-captain of the Syrian army, which at that time was at war with Israel and had almost eradicated the hapless little nation (2 Kings 5:1-14). Namaan was stricken with leprosy, and although there were many lepers in Israel, “ … none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian” (Luke 4:27, ESV).

No more dramatic illustration could have been given that the grace of God was not limited to the people of Israel and that Gentiles often displayed greater faith than those who were considered “children of the kingdom.” It is a small wonder that the proud citizens of Nazareth were infuriated at this brash young man who insulted their nation and called into question their privileged status as God’s chosen people! But for His miraculous power, they would have hurled him to His death on the jagged rocks at the foot of a cliff (Luke 4:28-30).

First Strategy: To the Jews

Jesus did have a deep conviction of a special mission to the Jewish nation, who were God’s treasured possession (Exodus 19:5). He expressed this so strongly that some have concluded that He envisioned no mission beyond Israel. But careful consideration of all His words and actions reveals that it was a question of strategy: As Paul later expressed it, His mission was “to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16; 2:10, King James Version).

Jesus’ concern for Israel was shown in the instructions to the 12 disciples as He sent them out on their first preaching mission. “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles,” He said, “and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:5-6, NASB). The apostle Paul later wrote, “God, having raised up His servant, sent Him to you (the Jews) first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness (Acts 2:26, ESV, author’s clarification in parentheses). 

His ministry was restricted primarily, but not exclusively to the Jews (Matthew 8:1-13). Indeed, in the very same context is the prediction that the preaching ministry of the disciples would be extended to the Gentiles; “You shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles” (Matthew 10:18, NASB 1977). 

Luke’s Gospel tells of a later preaching mission in which 70 others were sent out two by two (Luke 10:1). Just as the 12 apostles symbolically represent the 12 tribes of Israel, the 70 symbolize the Gentile nations. In Genesis 10, the descendants of Noah are listed, 70 in number.

Rabbinical tradition assumed that this was the total number of nations scattered over the earth after the Tower of Babel and repeatedly referred to the 70 Gentile peoples. Jesus may have used this means of symbolizing His long-range purpose. The 12 were sent to heal the sick and announce the nearness of God’s kingdom. The 70 were sent later on a training mission in preparation for their ultimate mission to the whole world.

Jesus ministered to the Jews for the Gentiles. 

Second Strategy: To the Gentiles

Most of the public ministry of Jesus was conducted in Jewish territory. Under the circumstances, the number of personal contacts with Gentiles recorded in the Gospels is surprising. He healed a Gadarene (Gentile) demoniac (Matthew 8:28-34). Another time, among 10 lepers healed, one was a Samaritan (a mixed race, half-Jew), and Jesus remarked upon the fact that only the foreigner returned to thank Him (Luke 17:12-19).

A Samaritan woman was the sole audience for one of Jesus’ greatest dialogues. She received the assurance that the time was near when God would be worshipped, not just in Jerusalem (where the Jews worshipped) or at Mt. Gerizim (where the Samaritans worshipped), but all over the world “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:5-42).

A Canaanite (Gentile) woman’s faith was rewarded when her daughter was healed. Much has been made of Jesus’ challenging remark at the beginning of the encounter: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24, ESV). He declined to heal her because His mission was first to the Jews. The woman understood and didn’t challenge this. Even so, she humbly submitted herself to Jesus, asking for His mercy. The significant point is that Jesus did minister to this Gentile woman and praised her faith in the presence of His disciples and the Jewish onlookers (Matthew 15:28). This incident echoed forward to Romans 15:8-9 that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy. 

Another example of Jesus reaching the Gentiles involved a Roman centurion whose servant was healed. Commander of a band of 100 foreign soldiers quartered at Capernaum to keep the peace, this Roman leader was despised by the Jews who resented this “army of occupation.” Conscious of his own authority as a military man, he humbly assured Jesus that it would not be necessary for Him to go to his house to heal his servant (and thus render Himself unclean — because He was a Jewish man — by entering a Gentile home). “But only say the word, and my servant will be healed,” he declared with genuine faith (Matthew 8:8, ESV). Jesus turned and announced to the Jewish crowd which was following Him: “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith” (Matthew 8:10, ESV). He did not stop there but continued with this solemn prediction: “I tell you, many such foreigners shall come from the east and the west to join Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But many others who thought they were ‘sons of the kingdom’ (the chosen people of Israel) shall be shut out” (Matthew 8: 11-12, author’s paraphrase).

In Jerusalem, during the week of Passover, a group of Greeks who had made a commitment to follow the laws of Judaism asked to speak with Jesus (John 12). Their request for an audience caused Jesus to declare: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified” (John 12:23, ESV). The deep interest of the Greeks was evidence that the world was ready for His redemptive mission to be culminated by His atoning death: “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (John 12:32, ESV). “All men” — Greeks as well as Jews — this is the clear implication of these profound words recorded by John.

Jesus’ Teaching in His Last Earthly Week

The events of Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem bear eloquent testimony to the fact that He moved resolutely toward the cross.

He entered the city on a donkey, in order to fulfill the prophet Zechariah’s prediction from the Old Testament of a king who would speak peace to the nations and whose dominion would be from sea to sea (Zechariah 9:9-10). 

Then He went to the temple and found greedy religious businessmen taking advantage of those that had come to worship. So He cleansed this corruption from the court of the Gentiles (the outermost court of the temple in Jerusalem that could be entered by all peoples), declaring sternly, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations” (Mark 11:17, ESV). 

Standing in the temple, He denounced the chief priests and Pharisees, the official leaders of the Jewish nation, for having failed to be good stewards of the truths of the kingdom which had been entrusted to the chosen people, and solemnly declared, “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits” (Matthew 21:43, ESV). 

When asked concerning the end of the age, Jesus said, in effect: “Don’t be misled. It will not be as soon as some think. For this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all nations, and after that, the end shall come” (Matthew 24:4-14, author’s paraphrase). Concerning His return in glory, He was purposely vague, declaring, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only” (Matthew 24:36, ESV). But when He does come, He promised, “Before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats” (Matthew 25:32, ESV).

Just before the Passover, at a house in Bethany, an adoring woman anointed His body with costly ointment. When she was criticized for her extravagance, Jesus stoutly defended her with these words: “ … She did it to prepare Me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her” (Matthew 26:12,13, ESV).

The next evening in the upper room with His disciples, He sealed the new covenant with them, in anticipation of His death. He declared as He passed the cup, “for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:28, ESV). Only the disciples were present, and all were Jews. But Jesus knew that the small nucleus of a new chosen people, the remnant of Israel, was soon to be enlarged, as the many for whom He died heard the good news of His love and forgiveness and placed their trust in Him as their Lord and Savior.

After Jesus’ resurrection, His last words before He went back to heaven gave instruction to His followers: ”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8, ESV).

God’s heart has always been for the nations, and the global vision of the risen Jesus remains the same. Jesus’ call is for His followers to reach all peoples with the good news of His love and forgiveness. 

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Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

Luke 13

10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

யூத நடைமுறையில் மேலே ஏசு பிதற்றி உள்ளபடியே நாய்கள் என்றால் யூதர்கள் அல்லாத அனைவரும், முத்து பைத்தியக்கார உளறல் பழைய ஏற்பாடு, பன்றி யூதர்கள் அல்லாத அனைவரும். ஏசு யூத வெறி பிடித்த மிருகமாய் பேசியுள்ளார்.
 

மாற்கு12:13 பரிசேயர் இயேசுவை அவருடைய பேச்சில் சிக்கவைக்க ஏரோதியர் சிலரை அவரிடம் அனுப்பி வைத்தனர்.14 அவர்கள் அவரிடம் வந்து, ‘ போதகரே, நீர் உண்மையுள்ளவர்; ஆள் பார்த்துச் செயல்படாதவர்; எவரையும் பொருட்படுத்தாமல் கடவுளின் நெறியை உண்மைக்கு ஏற்பக் கற்பிப்பவர் என்பது எங்களுக்குத் தெரியும். சீசருக்கு வரிசெலுத்துவது முறையா, இல்லையா? நாங்கள் செலுத்தவா, வேண்டாமா? ‘ என்று கேட்டார்கள்.15 அவர் அவர்களுடைய வெளிவேடத்தைப் புரிந்து கொண்டு, ‘ஏன் என்னைச் சோதிக்கிறீர்கள்? என்னிடம் ஒரு தெனாரியம் கொண்டுவாருங்கள். நான் பார்க்க வேண்டும்’ என்றார்.16அவர்கள் அதைக் கொண்டு வந்தார்கள். இயேசு அவர்களிடம், ‘ இதில் பொறிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள உருவமும் எழுத்தும் யாருடையவை? ‘ என்று கேட்டார். அவர்கள் அவரிடம், ‘ சீசருடையவை ‘ என்றார்கள்.17 அதற்கு இயேசு அவர்களை நோக்கி, ‘ சீசருக்கு உரியவற்றைச் சீசருக்கும் கடவுளுக்கு உரியவற்றைக் கடவுளுக்கும் கொடுங்கள் ‘ என்றார். அவர்கள் அவரைக் குறித்து வியப்படைந்தார்கள்.

மாற்கு12:28 அவர்கள் வாதாடிக்கொண்டிருப்பதைக் கேட்டுக்கொண்டிருந்த மறைநூல் அறிஞருள் ஒருவர், இயேசு அவர்களுக்கு நன்கு பதில் கூறிக்கொண்டிருந்ததைக் கண்டு அவரை அணுகி வந்து, ‘ அனைத்திலும் முதன்மையான கட்டளை எது? ‘ என்று கேட்டார்.29 அதற்கு இயேசு, ‘ இஸ்ரயேலே கேள். நம் ஆண்டவராகிய கடவுள் ஒருவரே ஆண்டவர்.30 உன் முழு இதயத்தோடும் முழு உள்ளத்தோடும் முழுமனத்தோடும் முழு ஆற்றலோடும் உன் ஆண்டவராகிய கடவுளிடம் அன்பு கூர்வாயாக ‘ என்பது முதன்மையான கட்டளை.31 ‘ உன்மீது நீ அன்புகூர்வது போல் உனக்கு அடுத்திருப்பவர் மீதும் அன்புகூர்வாயாக ‘ என்பது இரண்டாவது கட்டளை. இவற்றைவிட மேலான கட்டளை வேறு எதுவும் இல்லை ‘என்றார்.32 அதற்கு மறைநூல் அறிஞர் அவரிடம், ‘ நன்று போதகரே, ‘ கடவுள் ஒருவரே; அவரைத் தவிர வேறு ஒரு கடவுள் இல்லை ‘ என்று நீர் கூறியது உண்மையே.33 அவரிடம் முழு இதயத்தோடும் முழு அறிவோடும் முழு ஆற்றலோடும் அன்பு செலுத்துவதும், தன்னிடம் அன்புகொள்வது போல் அடுத்திருப்பவரிடம் அன்பு செலுத்தவதும் எரிபலிகளையும் வேறுபலிகளையும்விட மேலானது ‘ என்று கூறினார்.34 அவர் அறிவுத்திறனோடு பதிலளித்ததைக் கண்ட இயேசு அவரிடம், ‘ நீர் இறையாட்சியினின்று தொலையில் இல்லை ‘என்றார். அதன்பின் எவரும் அவரிடம் எதையும் கேட்கத் துணியவில்லை.

இஸ்ரேலின் மக்கள் தங்களின் சிறு எல்லை தெய்வமான கர்த்தரை வழிபட்டால் இறையாட்சிக்குள் நுழையலாம். ஏசுவை ஏற்பது ஏதும் கிடையாது.

இயேசுவைத் தெய்வீகர் என உயர்த்தி புனையும் இரண்டாவது வருகை ஆட்சியிலும் அவர்  யூதர்களுக்கு மட்டுமே

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus
http://www.hiddenbible.com/jesuszeus/jesuszeus.html
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jewsandjesus/