#matthew 21

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[madewithonerib]

Anatomy of a Disney Villain: Ursula || Better With Bob | gif #Born to Die Ursula has a gorgeous take over the world laugh, it's so classic, "I've got you now!!!!!!" Also the use of the age old trick of appearing larger than she actually is..bark is worse than her bite. She's the definition of s/o who chases after the essence of whoever is most popular—a freaking Frankenweenie of Pet Sematary proportions..only Disney made kid friendly bc of all the smiles? Stephen King has a nice omen on leaving well enough alone, but maybe Butterfly Effect was a knock-off King's Pet Sematary?

The original "The Little Mermaid" story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen was first published in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 7, 1837. It appeared in the first collection of Fairy Tales Told for Children by C.A. Reitzel. [1, 2] Would you like to know the differences between the original 1837 tragic ending and the modern Disney version? The original 1837 story by Hans Christian Andersen is much darker than the 1989 Disney movie. Here are the primary differences between the two versions:

The Bargain & the Pain: [a] The Voice: The Sea Witch cuts off the mermaid's tongue to take her voice, rather than just trapping it in a magical shell. [b] The Walking: The witch's potion gives her legs, but every step feels like walking on sharp knives and needles. [c] The Condition: If the Prince marries someone else, the mermaid will die of a broken heart the next morning and turn into sea foam.

The Prince and the Rival: [a] The Prince: He loves the mermaid like a favourite child or sister, but he is not romantically attracted to her. [b] The Marriage: The Prince marries a neighbouring princess whom he wrongly believes saved his life after the shipwreck.

The Tragic, Spiritual Ending: [a] The Choice: The mermaid's sisters trade their hair to the witch for a magical dagger. If the mermaid kills the Prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid again. [b] The Sacrifice: She cannot bring herself to kill him, throws the dagger into the waves, and leaps into the sea to dissolve into foam. #Buddhism [c] The Twist: Instead of dying, she becomes a "daughter of the air." She must do 300 years of good deeds to earn an immortal human soul and enter heaven. #purgatory

trade her voice.. no opinions, just like how "children are meant to be seen & not heard"? —kind of a devilish idea don't you think? From the mouth of infants and nursing babes YOU have established strength because of YOUR adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease [Psalm 8:2]

Out of the mouths of babes" is a popular idiom used when a young, inexperienced person unexpectedly says something surprisingly wise, profound, or glaringly true. The phrase is often used to describe those innocent, unguarded moments when a child cuts straight to the core of a complex situation. [1, 2] In Matthew 21:16, JESUS quotes this passage when religious leaders are annoyed by children shouting praises to HIM in the Temple. [1, 2]

No, The Butterfly Effect (2003) is not a knock-off of Pet Sematary (1983). While both deal with the devastating consequences of desperate ppl trying to alter a tragic past, they belong to entirely different subgenres and draw from different inspirations. [1, 2]

The Differences at a Glance

Core Concept: The Butterfly Effect (2004) is a sci-fi psychological thriller centered on time travel. The protagonist, Evan, discovers he can jump back into his own consciousness in the past to alter events, but every change triggers unintended, chaotic consequences.

The Inspiration: The title and concept are rooted in chaos theory, popularized by Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story "A Sound of Thunder" (where changing one minor detail in the past completely shifts the future). [1, 2]

The "Pet Sematary" Formula: Stephen King's novel (adapted into films in 1989 & 2019) is a supernatural horror about a grieving father who physically buries his loved ones in a cursed, mystical burial ground to bring them back from the dead. [1/2/3/4/5]

Shared Themes: People often link the two bc they share the classic moral dilemma of "be careful what you wish for" & the horror of realizing you can never truly cheat death without a heavy price. However, Evan's time-bending manipulation in The Butterfly Effect is an entirely different mechanism than the zombie-like revivals of the cursed soil in Pet Sematary. [1, 2] >> If you like sci-fi and horror that plays with time & reality, I can recommend other movies like Butterfly Effect—such as Donnie Darko or Triangle—or similar works by Stephen King! Let me know what you'd like to explore. [1, 2]

Would you like to know how the different endings of the movie change Evan's final attempt to fix the timeline, or explore how his father's story connected to his power?

Would you like to know more about the rules of time travel in the sequels, or do you want to look at other famous movies from that era with wildly different alternate endings? No.

Would you like to explore the symbolism behind Andersen's tragic ending, or are you interested in how these dark themes influenced other adaptations of the story?

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Jesus’ final entry into Jerusalem

1-3 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples ahead telling them, “Go into the village in front of you and you will at once find there an ass tethered, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. Should anyone say anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them’, and he will send them immediately.”

4-5 All this happened to fulfil the prophet’s saying—‘Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold your king is coming to you, lowly, and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey’.

6-9 So the disciples went off and followed Jesus’ instructions. They brought the ass and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and Jesus took his seat. Then most of the crowd spread their own cloaks on the road, while others cut down branches from the trees and spread them in his path. The crowds who went in front of him and the crowds who followed him all shouted, “God save the Son of David! ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ God save him from on high!”

10-11 And as he entered Jerusalem a shock ran through the whole city. “Who is this?” men cried. “This is Jesus the prophet,” replied the crowd, “the man from Nazareth in Galilee!”

12-13 Then Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all the buyers and sellers there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those who sold doves, crying—“It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’. But you have turned it into a ‘den of thieves!’”

14-16 And there in the Temple the blind and the lame came to him and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things he had done, and that children were shouting in the Temple the words, “God save the Son of David”, they were highly indignant. “Can’t you hear what these children are saying?” they asked Jesus. “Yes,” he replied, “and haven’t you ever read the words, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise’?”

17 And he turned on his heel and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

His strange words to the fig-tree

18-20 In the morning he came back early to the city and felt hungry. He saw a fig-tree growing by the side of the road, but when he got to it he discovered there was nothing on it but leaves. “No more fruit shall ever grow on you!” he said to it, and all at once the fig-tree withered away. When the disciples saw this happen they were simply amazed. “How on earth did the fig-tree wither away quite suddenly like that?” they asked.

21-22 “Believe me,” replied Jesus, “if you have faith and have no doubts in your heart, you will not only do this to a fig-tree but even if you should say to this hill, ‘Get up and throw yourself into the sea’, it will happen! Everything you ask for in prayer, if you have faith, you will receive.”

Jesus meets a question with a counter-question

23 Then when he had entered the Temple and was in the act of teaching, the chief priests and Jewish elders came up to him and said, “What authority have you for what you’re doing, and who gave you that authority?”

24-26 “I am also going to ask you one question,” Jesus replied to them, “and if you answer it I will tell you what authority I have for what I do. John’s baptism, now, did it come from Heaven or was it purely human?” At this they began arguing among themselves, “If we say, ‘it came from Heaven’, he will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe in him?’ If on the other hand we should say, ‘It was purely human’—well, frankly, we are afraid of the people—for all of them consider John was a prophet.”

27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” “Then I will not tell you by what authority I do these things!” returned Jesus.

28-32 “But what is your opinion about this? There was a man with two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Go and work in my vineyard today, my son,’ he said, ‘All right, sir’—but he never went near it. Then his father approached the second son with the same request. He said, ‘I won’t.’ But afterwards he changed his mind and went. Which of these two did what their father wanted?” “The second one,” they replied. “Yes, and I tell you that tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God in front of you!” retorted Jesus. “For John came to you as a saint, and you did not believe him—yet the tax-collectors and the prostitutes did! And, even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him.”

Jesus tells a pointed story

33-40 “Now listen to another story. There was once a man, a land-owner, who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug out a hole for the wine-press and built a watch-tower. Then he let it out to farm-workers and went abroad. When the vintage-time approached he sent his servants to the farm-workers to receive his share of the proceeds. But they took the servants. beat up one, killed another, and drove off a third with stones. Then he sent some more servants, a larger party than the first, but they treated them in just the same way. Finally he sent his own son, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ Yet when the farm-workers saw the son they said to each other, ‘This fellow is the future owner. Come on, let’s kill him and we shall get everything that he would have had!’ So they took him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those farm-workers?”

41 “He will kill those scoundrels without mercy,” they replied, “and will let the vineyard out to other tenants, who will give him the produce at the right season.”

42 “And have you never read these words of scripture,” said Jesus to them: ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?’

43-44 “Here, I tell you, lies the reason why the kingdom of God is going to be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its proper fruit.”

45-46 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables they realised that he was speaking about them. They longed to get their hands on him, but they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet. — Matthew 21 | J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Phillips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Cross References: Genesis 4:24; Exodus 30:12; Genesis 49:11; Leviticus 1:14; Ruth 1:19; 2 Samuel 14:7; 2 Kings 9:13; Psalm 8:2; Psalm 118:22; Psalm 118:26; Proverbs 26:5; Song of Solomon 8:11; Isaiah 5:1-2; Isaiah 5:3; Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 62:11; Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 8:13; Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 37:15; Matthew 4:28; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 8:10-11; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 11:9; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:3; Matthew 16:7; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 20:24; Matthew 20:34; Matthew 22:4; Matthew 26:6; Matthew 26:55; Mark 11:1; Mark 11:7-8; Mark 11:12; Mark 11:20; Mark 11:23; Mark 11:27; Mark 12:1-2; Luke 20:5; Luke 20:16; John 7:30; 1 John 3:22

Matthew 21 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Key Passages in Matthew 21

1. Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon a donkey 12. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple; 17. curses the fig tree; 23. puts to silence the priests and elders, 28. and rebukes them by the parable of the two sons, 33. and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them.

[rijl]

Happy Palm Sunday

[quotesfromscripture]

The old and new cloaks

“They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.” - Matthew 21:7-8 NIV

“Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?’  ‘He is worthy of death,’ they answered.  Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, ‘Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?’ ” - Matthew 26:65-68 NIV

“He told them this parable: ‘No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.’ ” - Luke 5:36 NIV

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Friday, Turning Hope to Sorrow

Friday, Turning Hope to Sorrow

Five days before Friday the shouts were loud. Hosanna to the son of DavidHosanna, Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord,Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father DavidHosanna, peace in heaven and glory in the highest.    cf. Matt. 21:4-9; Mark 11:7-11; Luke 19:35-38; John 12:12-15 Hope, in Jerusalem was high. That is why the palm branches were cut and layed down on the road. The…

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Matthew 21:12-14 - WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN MARKETING YOURSELF (Part 5)

Matthew 21:12-14 – WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN MARKETING YOURSELF (Part 5)

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Matthew 21:12-14 – WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN MARKETING YOURSELF (Part 5)

The next day, on the train, the Marketing Manager and the Christ Follower resume their conversation. Previously …

MARKETING MANAGER: We can learn a lot about what not to do in Marketing from Jesus. He made so many mistakes.

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[rev-krissy]

Like why would Jesus do that to a tree it seems counterproductive

Ok - dealing with Matthew 21:18-22 & it’s parallel in Mark 11:12-25.

This is the only destructive miracle done by Jesus in any canonical gospel. Only in Thomas and other gnostic texts is destruction attributed to Jesus - the only direct parallel being Thomas III:1-3 in which the boy Jesus causes another boy to wither up instantly by saying “you will wither like a tree”…

I’m going to start with Mark because it actually makes more sense. Mark uses the story of the fig tree as an inclusio (bracket) around the story of the cleansing of the temple. It is used as an interpretive cue. The tree in this case is a literary device representing Israel, of which the temple is the heart. The implication being that neither tree, nor temple, nor people are bearing fruit, tree is cursed, the temple is cleansed, the people are called to repent, believe and work toward the empire of God (and against empires of man).

Matthew writes with a copy of Mark in hand, but works really hard to spiritualize the story - as opposed to Luke who makes everything political or economic. Matthew places it after the cleansing of the temple and makes it about the power of prayer and the need to not hesitate - a check of the Greek reveals that “do not doubt” is a bad translation it is “do not hesitate”.

The commentaries caution that you should not mistake this as saying that if you pray hard enough you get whatever you want, nor that you can use prayer to destroy trees or enemies, nor that only perfect faith/prayer is acceptable to God.

It still feels like a dick move… I think I must be missing something… I’m going to keep working on this one and I’ll update this post if I find more satisfying answers.

In the meantime, do any of my wise conversation partners have any insight on this particular pericope?