Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Jesus

  • Posts on Whether Jesus Was Wealthy

    Apparently there has been a recent magazine article on whether or not Jesus was actually wealthy.  I’m with James McGrath on this one.  I doubt that Jesus would have pronounced such harsh woes on the rich if he had been wealthy.  But, you can check out the posts HERE (James McGrath) and HERE (Joel Watts). …

  • Mark Goodacre on Comedy in the Gospels

    HERE is an interesting post by Mark Goodacre on humor in the Gospels and how it is often lost on modern readers who do not know how the audience reacted.  If nothing else, I think at least one sentence in the post is quotable, and I will try to remember.  Mark states: Unfortunately, the narrator…