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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>In his
book <U>Look Homeward Angel</U>, Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.”
Robert Frost wrote, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they
have to take you in.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=4>If you are a friend to our enemies, then you’re no friend of ours. This
sounds like the motto of government officials in our own time. We tend to get
mad when somebody suggests that God loves the people we don’t want to get near.
We may want God to see it our way, to support our neat categories. (We’re the
good guys; they’re the bad guys. God loves us, not them.) But God keeps knocking
down our prejudices and barriers. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><A
href="http://dcommon.bu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2144/357/Accepting%20People%20As%20They%20Are.doc?sequence=1">http://dcommon.bu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2144/357/Accepting%20People%20As%20They%20Are.doc?sequence=1</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
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size=4>Mel Williams, 2004</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>- - - - -</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>[Jesus'] claims were clearly offensive to his fellow townspeople. Indeed,
he might have had less trouble with them if he announced, like several other
populist leaders of his era, that he was proclaiming a holy war against the
Romans and would lead a march on Jerusalem. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><A
href="http://www.agreeley.com/hom10/jan24.htm">http://www.agreeley.com/hom10/jan24.htm</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Andrew M. Greeley, 2004</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>- - - - -</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Using social-scientific criticism, I imagine that Jesus' family and
village eiders labeled him a "rebellious son" because his kingdom of God agenda
threatened their domestic economy and the patriarchal power relations that
sustained it. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><A
href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LAL/is_3_38/ai_n28094629/?tag=content;col1">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LAL/is_3_38/ai_n28094629/?tag=content;col1</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Rick F. Talbott, 2008</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>- - - - -</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>This is an event recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, Mark 6:1-6, Matthew
13:54-58, Luke 4:16-30, where Jesus is strongly rejected by the people of his
hometown, which Luke specifies as Nazareth. The core saying is also mentioned in
John 4:44</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>The historicity of Luke's version is easily questionable, since there is
no "cliff face" in Nazareth*, indicating the author of Luke was unfamiliar with
Nazareth, and had never been there.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><EM>*The Complete Gospels</EM>, Robert J. Miller editor, 1992, page 126,
translation note to Luke 4:29: "Nazareth is not built on or near a cliff face.
Luke generally seems poorly informed about Palestinian geography. Aspects of his
geography may therefore be fictive." </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_of_Jesus#cite_note-1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_of_Jesus#cite_note-1</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>- - - - -</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Ancient Nazareth may have built on the hillside, as indicated in the
Gospel of Luke: <I>[And they led Jesus] to the brow of the hill on which their
city was built, that they might throw him down headlong</I>. [Lk 4:29].<SPAN
class=plainlinks><FONT color=#000000> However, the hill in question (the Nebi
Sa'in) is far too steep for ancient dwellings and averages a 14% grade in the
venerated area. (B. Bagatti, <I>Excavations in Nazareth,</I> Plate XI, top
right. )</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth"><FONT
size=4>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth</FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>He is not the son of Joseph, but the Son of God. That is what Jesus needs
to correct in the minds of the congregation and the reader. But this is not an
acceptable thought to the congregation of his birth. Though he has proclaimed
the acceptable year of the Lord, he will find no such acceptance himself.
Notions of deliverance in general, we will discover, are more acceptable to the
people than the person of the deliverer. <BR><><BR>The pattern of
rejection has been set early in Luke's Gospel for the truth always exposes its
opponents. Preachers who try to preach only messages of conciliation are merely
preaching half a gospel. The other half is an attack on all fronts against human
presumption. <BR></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><A
href="http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching_print.aspx?commentary_id=503"><FONT
size=4>http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching_print.aspx?commentary_id=503</FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Roy Harrisville</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 size=4><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">-
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
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size=4>The people are “filled with rage” (v. 28) because they begin to realize
that Jesus is for others as well as for them. Nazareth, being on a hillside, has
steep slopes down which a person might fall to his death. Jesus escapes the
<EM>lynch mob</EM>: they let him go because they think he might just be the
messiah. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
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size=4><A
href="http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cpr04m.shtml">http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cpr04m.shtml</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=4>Chris Haslam, 2007 </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The parallels are Matthew </FONT><FONT
size=4>13:53-58</FONT><FONT size=4> and Mark </FONT><FONT
size=4>6:1-6</FONT><FONT size=4>.</FONT></DIV>
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size=4><A
href="http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cpr04l.shtml">http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cpr04l.shtml</A></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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size=4>Chris Haslam, 2007 </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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