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Abyssinia
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How could Peter or any of the apostles be eyewitnesses to conversations that happened before the apostles were chosen and before Jesus was even born? How exactly did Luke investigate these things and get quotes?
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puzzleannie
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presumably either Mary or others related those stories to the apostles and other disciples, and Luke says he made it his business to interview everyone still alive who witnessed these events, or anyone who had known those involved. I love him because he is a model historian, one of the best in ancient world.
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Trishie
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For instance: from Jesus’ mother, whom they knew.
John knew her particularly closely as he took Mary into his home and treated her as his own mother, and provided for her after Jesus’ death, as Jesus had asked from the cross.
The apostles knew Jesus’ Mother during the years Jesus was with them…and if in the company of Jesus, would you not, also, have chats with the mother of this remarkable man about His early life? Wouldn’t you have wanted to know everything she could tell you?
And a couple of the apostles hung out with John the Baptist before Jesus called them. Remember that Mary spent time with Elizabeth, her cousin, for a few months before John’s birth. Another family connection and information source. Elizabeth would have shared, as mothers do, with John when he was younger.
God bless you
John knew her particularly closely as he took Mary into his home and treated her as his own mother, and provided for her after Jesus’ death, as Jesus had asked from the cross.
The apostles knew Jesus’ Mother during the years Jesus was with them…and if in the company of Jesus, would you not, also, have chats with the mother of this remarkable man about His early life? Wouldn’t you have wanted to know everything she could tell you?
And a couple of the apostles hung out with John the Baptist before Jesus called them. Remember that Mary spent time with Elizabeth, her cousin, for a few months before John’s birth. Another family connection and information source. Elizabeth would have shared, as mothers do, with John when he was younger.
God bless you
po18guy
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And, some of it was direct revelation, such as Paul’s repetition of Jesus’ words at the institution of the Holy Eucharist in the upper room (1 Corinthians 11:23-26). Others, such as Jesus’ conversation with Pilate (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23), could either have been by revelation or were related to the Gospel writer by some other person who was present. Who could it have been that heard God say “Let us make man in our image” (Genesis 1:26)? Ah, the mystery of faith!
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