Adar 9 – Whatever you loose on earth…

March 8, 2025

12 – Adar, Jesus, Matthew, Simon Peter

Yeshua – Jesus

Adar 9, 5785; from sunset March 8, 2025, to sunset March 9, 2025

(The ninth day of the twelfth month)

View of the Sea of Galilee from the shores of Capernaum. Photo credit: Today in the Bible

This is the name “Yeshua” (יֵשׁוּעַ – Jesus) as seen on the James Ossuary. Yeshua comes from the verb “yasha” meaning “to save or deliver.” Yeshua means “Salvation.”

We’re continuing our look at the teachings of the Master which occurred between the time the Temple tax was collected and Passover. The dates are chosen at random, but they would have happened at some point between Adar 1 and Nisan 7. Today’s teaching is recorded as occurring in Capernaum.

‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.

‘In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.’

Then Peter went up to him and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’

Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.’ – Matthew 18:15-22

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