{"id":167,"date":"2013-04-03T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-06-12T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T05:22:27","slug":"sabbath-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/sabbath-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sabbath Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This play about Jesus getting in trouble for performing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/sabbath%20healing.pdf\">a healing on the Sabbath<\/a> arose from my feeling that the synagogue leader&#8217;s complaint &#8211; that the woman could have been healed any other day of the week, just not on that one special day &#8211; was not all that unreasonable, and that Jesus&#8217; counter &#8211; that the people were hypocrites because they would do some work to water their animals on the Sabbath while not wanting the woman to be healed on the Sabbath &#8211; didn&#8217;t entirely hold water.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Given that premise, I had to ask myself why Jesus reacted so strongly, and from there, I constructed this play that presents a possible explanation for what was really happening behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>You might accuse me of breaking my own rule here: rather than simply presenting or even sharpening the oddity in the story, I&#8217;m trying to explain it away, to smooth it over.<\/p>\n<p>To which I can only reply: guilty as charged!<\/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 play about Jesus getting in trouble for performing a healing on the Sabbath arose from my feeling that the synagogue leader&#8217;s complaint &#8211; that&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/sabbath-healing\/\" title=\"A Sabbath Healing\" 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-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}