The Biggest Understatement in the Bible?

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While in Mass yesterday (Friday) I was listening to the first reading, which came from Acts, Chapter 15. If you recall, this was the council of Jerusalem where they were trying to determine if Gentiles needed to be circumcised. The council said, "No, we don’t need to circumcise Gentile converts. So Paul and Barnabus need to return to Anioch with this decision. As we got to the end of the reading, I almost laughed out loud when I considered the following verses:
And so they were sent on their journey. Upon their arrival in Antioch they called the assembly together and delivered the letter. When the people read it, they were delighted with the exhortation.
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I bet they were “delighted”. I bet they were jumping for Joy, dancing in the streets, and killing the fatted calf!!!

Anyway, it was all I could do to keep a straight face throughout the Gospel and the Homily, for I couldn’t get this image out of my mind.
 
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Notworthy - not good. Not good at all. I nearly sprayed coffee out of my nose. Coffee and electronics don’t mix. How do you think we got the Great Forum Crash of '06? 😛

Mane Nobiscum Domine,
Ferdinand Mary
 
that’s interesting who wouldve known the bible was so humourous
 
anybody have statistics on how quickly the number of converts increased after that announcement?
 
Sagefrakrobatik said:
that’s interesting who wouldve known the bible was so humourous
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Here’s another passage from Acts that I think is very humourous. ‘Act 20:7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Act 20:8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
Act 20:9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
Act 20:10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
Act 20:11 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.
Act 20:12 And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.’ (ESV) It cracks me up how Paul gave a homily that was so long that Eutychus fell asleep and fell out the window. Sometimes priests get a little carried away with long homilies, but even Paul did this.
 
So if my priest complains that I sleep through his homilies, I can tell him, “Don’t look at me, it’s Biblical”!!! 😉
 
NotWorthy said:
I bet they were “delighted”. I bet they were jumping for Joy, dancing in the streets, and killing the fatted calf!!!

Anyway, it was all I could do to keep a straight face throughout the Gospel and the Homily, for I couldn’t get this image out of my mind.
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Of course, I forgot that some of our Baptist friends claim to have been around already, so of course, they wouldn’t have been dancing in the streets, because that would have led to… well, you know. :rolleyes:
 
NotWorthy,

When I first read your question my mind turned to a serious answer but having read your post things quickly changed and what came immediately to mind (and perhaps this is another “guy
thing”) was when Peter’s mother-in-law was healed by Christ. I think implied in the account is that someone might had said to her," Now that you are better, get us some food, we’re starved."
 
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Notworthy - not good. Not good at all. I nearly sprayed coffee out of my nose. Coffee and electronics don’t mix. How do you think we got the Great Forum Crash of '06? 😛

Mane Nobiscum Domine,
Ferdinand Mary
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Oh, yes, I remember it well.

It started with a simple joke, “A priest, a Nun, and a Rabbi do into a bar…”!!! How many times to I have to apologize for that??? 😉
 
NotWorthy said:
While in Mass yesterday (Friday) I was listening to the first reading, which came from Acts, Chapter 15. If you recall, this was the council of Jerusalem where they were trying to determine if Gentiles needed to be circumcised. The council said, "No, we don’t need to circumcise Gentile converts. So Paul and Barnabus need to return to Anioch with this decision. As we got to the end of the reading, I almost laughed out loud when I considered the following verses:

I bet they were “delighted”. I bet they were jumping for Joy, dancing in the streets, and killing the fatted calf!!!

Anyway, it was all I could do to keep a straight face throughout the Gospel and the Homily, for I couldn’t get this image out of my mind.
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I thought so too, but then I got to wondering about the men who had already gone ahead and done it! What were they thinking? “Man, I went through all of that pain for NOTHING???”:mad: 😦
 
mommyof4 said:
I thought so too, but then I got to wondering about the men who had already gone ahead and done it! What were they thinking? “Man, I went through all of that pain for NOTHING???”:mad: 😦
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It’s a little known fact but, because of this, they were the first ones that needed to go to Confession in Antioch.

And now you know the REST of the story!!!
 
NotWorthy said:
It’s a little known fact but, because of this, they were the first ones that needed to go to Confession in Antioch.

And now you know the REST of the story!!!
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I’ll bet, after all the cussing and swearing!
 
NotWorthy said:
While in Mass yesterday (Friday) I was listening to the first reading, which came from Acts, Chapter 15. If you recall, this was the council of Jerusalem where they were trying to determine if Gentiles needed to be circumcised. The council said, "No, we don’t need to circumcise Gentile converts. So Paul and Barnabus need to return to Anioch with this decision. As we got to the end of the reading, I almost laughed out loud when I considered the following verses:

I bet they were “delighted”. I bet they were jumping for Joy, dancing in the streets, and killing the fatted calf!!!
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Especially the men.
 
One interesting note about this passage is that the Church addressed the question and provided the answer. This is yet another example of how Holy Scripture disproves Sola Scriptura.
 
I like the encounter on the road to Emmaus:
Disciples: “Are you the only one in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have taken place there these days!?”
Our Lord: “What things…?”
(I always imagine him making Dana Carvey’s Church-Lady face, as he tries to stifle laughter) 😉

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