{"id":507,"date":"2014-11-23T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2014-11-23T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T06:39:11","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gag Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oddest thing about this story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/silence.pdf\">Jesus performing a number of healings and exorcisms<\/a> right at the start of his ministry is his order to the evil spirits not to proclaim that he was the messiah. As usual, I do my best to call out the oddity without offering any explanation for it, and I reinforce the theme by framing Jesus&#8217; sudden disappearance the next morning and his unwillingness to stay in town to heal more people as an aspect of this mysterious aversion to publicity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One other oddity about this story is that the Gospel of Mark places it right at the start of Jesus&#8217; ministry, while Matthew and Luke have it occurring much later. I went with Mark&#8217;s time table for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So I could have it follow Jesus&#8217; casting out of the evil spirit in Capernaum, where he also ordered the evil spirit to stop proclaiming who he was.<\/li>\n<li>So I could bring in Judas again before he actually joins Jesus and have him talk about the unpredictability of figures like Jesus and his current master John the Baptist.<\/li>\n<li>Because it seemed better for this puzzling event to be one of the first impressions the disciples get of their new master.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oddest thing about this story of Jesus performing a number of healings and exorcisms right at the start of his ministry is his order&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/silence\/\" title=\"Gag Rule\" 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-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}