Sunday, November 10, 2024

Unknown story of forgiveness

Judas wasn't going to explain his doings to anybody before the betrayal, and wasn't in a mood to afterwards, so from whence did the synoptic gospels get the information about the "chief priests and officers" and the silver?

Acts 6:7 says that "a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith." If one of those chief priests was among the converted, what a story he must have had! Just like Paul, he was certain he was on the side of the angels, though using rather disreputable means, and then -- oh oh.

Maybe it was one of the officers. There probably weren't a lot of people in on the secret, though.

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1 comment:

  1. Assistant Village Idiot8:22 PM

    It is often interesting to contemplate where the story has come from. It was never a problem for the fundamentalists who seemed to believe that God dictated to the authors word-for-word, so that they needn't have actually been there, but once you consider the issues of eyewitnesses, it gets complicated.

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