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But Zerubbabel responded, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God” (Ezra 4:3)-thus antagonizing the Samaritans and initiating a period of antagonism between Samaria and Judea that persisted until New Testament times.īut Jesus wasn’t antagonistic to Samaritans. However, some Samaritans remained faithful to Yahweh (Jeremiah 41:5), and offered their assistance in rebuilding the temple to Zerubbabel after the Babylonian Exile. In the eighth century B.C., Assyria conquered Samaria and exiled most of its inhabitants, replacing them with people from Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:24)-essentially repopulating the area with people other than Jews. To understand the relationship of Jerusalem and Samaria, we must first understand something of Samaria’s history. Samaria is the region located between Judea (to the south) and Galilee (to the north). The Philip mentioned here is Philip the Evangelist. He is called Philip the Evangelist in Acts 21:8. The second is Philip the Evangelist, who was one of the seven men chosen to take care of certain administrative tasks (Acts 6:1-6).He is mentioned frequently in the Gospel of John (1:43-48 6:5-7 12:21-22 14:8-9)-and once in the book of Acts (1:13). The first is Philip the Apostle, who was commissioned as an apostle in Matthew 10:3 (See also Mark 3:18 Luke 6:14).There are two Philips in the New Testament: “Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ” (v. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed. 7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. 6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did. PHILIP PROCLAIMED TO THEM THE CHRISTĥ Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ. He will be mentioned later as Paul’s host in Caesarea (21:8). He is remembered today primarily as the one who proclaimed the good news of Jesus to the Ethiopian eunuch and, when the eunuch responded positively, baptized him (8:26-40).
BIBLE COMMENTARY ON SIMON THE SORCERER FULL
Philip the evangelist was one of the “seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom,” appointed earlier to relieve the apostles of routine church administrative tasks (6:1-7). Philip went to the city of Samaria, where he proclaimed the Messiah and the crowds responded eagerly (8:5-6). This act most likely hurt Ham more than being directly cursed.Saul was persecuting the church (8:1-3), and “those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word” (8:4). While he cursed Canaan, he indirectly cursed Ham, who was Noah's youngest son. The Controversy of the Curse The order of the events preceding the curse: Noah raised a vineyard and produced wine He drank too much wine and passed out in his own tent Ham entered the tent and SAW his father's nakedness Rather than leaving and not saying anything out of respect, he ran to his brothers and told them (making fun of Noah is indicated) Shem and Japheth took a cloth and walking backwards covered their father without seeing his nakedness Later, when Noah woke up and found out what happened, he cursed Canaan, Ham's youngest son. According to ethnologists, Noah's children were black (Ham) Japheth, white like Noah and Shem, brown).
BIBLE COMMENTARY ON SIMON THE SORCERER SKIN
Jesus is described as having skin the color of burnished brass.
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From these intermarriages, scholars/anthropologists say that we now have many skin and eye colors. Moses married a black woman in Cush Joseph married an Egyptian sons of Jacob married Canaanite women of various colors. Biblical scholars/anthropologists in tracing the genealogy of biblical families report that Abraham was black and had two black wives and then Sarah who was white. Due to intermarriages, they posit, skins began changing to various colors as well as eye color. Red skin came as a combination of the colors. White skin was unusual and sometimes considered to be albino. White, Black, and Red Skin Consensus among many anthropologists is that all early mankind had black skin.
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These issues and more will be discussed in this paper. UNCOVER his father's nakedness he was not cursed to be black he did not commit sexual sins against either parent and he did not castrate his father. And then, there are the false claims against Ham and to clarify those: Ham did not. To begin with, Ham's skin was already black, and the curse was placed on Ham's youngest son, Canaan. This was used as an excuse to justify slavery forever among peoples with black skin. For centuries, churches have erroneously taught that Noah cursed Ham to have black skin and he was to be a slave to his brothers.