{"id":152,"date":"2013-04-03T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-04-03T00:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:55:52","slug":"watchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/watchers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is exactly what I&#8217;m talking about when I say there are textual oddities in the Gospels. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/watchers.pdf\">This play&#8217;s parable<\/a> about a man who goes out to a party and charges his servants to wait up for his return might seem perfectly unremarkable if all you&#8217;re doing is drawing generic spiritual lessons from it, but as soon as you try looking closely at the actual text, problems begin to arise. <!--more-->I have the disciples debate these problems ad infinitum (but hopefully not <em>ad nauseam<\/em>) until Jesus appears at the end to&#8230;resolve the debate? clear up the confusion? No, to sidestep the argument entirely and call them instead (as is his wont) to faithfulness and vigilance.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is exactly what I&#8217;m talking about when I say there are textual oddities in the Gospels. This play&#8217;s parable about a man who goes&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/watchers\/\" title=\"The Watchers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}