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Posted by Traci In Mt 26:68 the Pharisees and members of the Sanhedrin blindfolded Jesus, then hit him, then said, "Prophesy to us Christ! Who hit you?" Based on their understanding and common usage of the word "prophetes," they weren't asking him to tell the future. They were asking him to tell them something that he shouldn't normally know, except by supernatural revelation. A similar example is found in Jn 4:19 where the woman at the well says to Jesus, "I perceive that you are a prophet." But he didn't tell her of her future, only her past. So common usage of the term seems to speak about revelation, (which could include telling the future). With this in mind, knowing that Paul was educated with all those guys that hit Jesus, and assuming that he had the same understanding of the word as they and used it in the same way, it sheds a new light on the word "prophetes" when Paul uses it in scripture. All of a sudden, all the scriptures containing the word prophecy, prophet, prophesy in the NT, could be more widely applied. It opened a whole new world to me. Traci
on 4/26/2006, 1:42 pm, in reply to "Re: What is a Prophet?"
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For a while, I stuck to the literal meaning of the word prophet for my definition of pa prophet/prophesy, et. But then one day I happened upon a couple interesting verses.
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