Matt. 10:39; 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; 17:33
(Huck 62, 123, 184; Aland 103, 160, 235; Crook 118, 178, 262, 287)[1]
Updated: 12 April 2023
מִי שֶׁיְּבַקֵּשׁ לְמַלֵּט אֶת נַפְשׁוֹ יְאַבְּדֶהָ וּמִי שֶׁיְּאַבֵּד אֶת נַפְשׁוֹ יְקַיְּמֶהָ
“Whoever wants to preserve his life when the calamity strikes will have to destroy his attachment to possessions, but whoever does forsake his possessions will live to see another day.[2]
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Reconstruction
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Conclusion
In Preserving and Destroying Jesus continued his use of the story of Lot’s flight from Sodom to illustrate how his contemporaries should behave when war with the Roman Empire erupts. According to Jewish tradition, Lot’s hesitation over his belongings nearly proved fatal to himself, his wife and his daughters. From Lot’s example Jesus warned the members of his generation to forsake their possessions and run if they wanted to survive the onslaught of the Roman legions.
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- [1] For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.’” ↩
- [2] This translation is a dynamic rendition of our reconstruction of the conjectured Hebrew source that stands behind the Greek of the Synoptic Gospels. It is not a translation of the Greek text of a canonical source. ↩
