When you seek images of Jesus praying, Today, He is about 90% of the time looking up. Historically, Jesus looks at His own Hands. The Scriptures place prayer. Gabriel stands in the Presence of God. Moses is told to take off his shoes. Prostate prayer on the floor. Psalms records we pray flat on our bed. Head bowed. Sitting. Prayer is recorded from all positions. Kneeling, of course. More important, Prayer is asked to be continuous. An invitation to the open, always open, 12 Gates of Heaven. I so enjoy knowing Peter has the keys. I do believe Jesus was being humorous and honorable. A smile between Friends. Prayer!
Hebrews 5:1-14
Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. 3 This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people. 4 And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.
5 In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father.”
6 And he says in another place,
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Papyrus 46 is dated between the first Century and 175 A.D. To date this later comes as a debate over verb conjugations. This debate is brand new 2000 years after the fact. The University of Michigan shows labels of this being first century during the years the Disciple John was alive and having debates published in history.
Imagine being the Disciple John in old, old age.
John arrived on Patmos after surviving an event recorded on papyrus fragments and also a complete history. This papyrus (interpreted by Victor of Capua) might very well have originally been written by Polycarp, the disciple to John. According to Dr. Bob Thiel, of the Washington Post, these fragments are John's disciple Polycarp - recording the cruel boiling oil as an historical event from John to Polycarp as John's own account.
A Historian, lawyer and married to a Christian wife - Tertullian disliked mysticism and wrote this was fact that John was boiled in oil and unharmed by Emperor Domitian intended the death of a man worshiping Jesus as God. Tertullian's book is The Prescription of Heretics. The precise written event - John was banished to Patmos after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it. Tertullian wrote the whole audience of the smaller games area than the Colosseum was converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle. The smaller arena was used because, first, the dogs refused to attack John in the larger Colosseum. Dogs were deemed less grand than lions. The smaller arena was packed for the second oil boiling event. This event would have occurred in the late 1st century.
Polycarp and Tertullian wrote of John's grave as a fact containing John's body. They wrote of seeing a High Priest in the town near John's new grave. A High Priest was seen and both men did agree - John was indeed a High Priest. It would be more likely they had seen something of what Abraham encountered in Melchizedek. Or the people who awoke after the first Easter.
We recognize, without doubt, we are to follow Scripture. Yet we ignore our brains not to be stirred by what Tertullian wrote about in building the faith of the believers.
Faith stirs us to acts of Faith. We follow Jesus Christ the Lord and His Acts - not people. Scriptures give us examples of people, all show flaws and weaknesses. The majority of the Words are about God and His encouragement of His People.
This is Hebrews 5 and is very, very intact and legible. House and owned by the University of Michigan. Obviously, a true representation of The Acts of the Apostles we read of in the Gospels and in the Book of Acts.
When Jesus prayed, we rarely know the words He used to speak to His Father. And we know Jesus prayed out loudly and felt a conversation was in progress with emotions of emphatic petition. Jesus felt very, very connected to His Prayer Conversations. Jesus was written to have cried tears as He prayed.
Our Jesus prayed in public and, yet, He usually wanted to be somewhere on a hill or in a lonely place to feel the Holy Spirit connect Him to our Father.
Jesus also trusted "Thy Will be Done." His Plan is the hope and future. Jesus was obedient to the Will of God and believed God's Word and this tells us "All things work together for Good, for those who work love the Lord and work according to His purpose."
Jesus was also not a stranger to His Brother or Family, and He told James
Alleluia and Amen in Jesus Christ.
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