By Eduard Schweizer
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Even if there is more emphasis than at the Baptism that Jesus is the Son of God from the very beginning, what remains supremely important is that God, in his free, underivative action, causes Jesus to be born, who, entirely under the control of his Spirit, will accomplish the saving presence of God. With the affirmation of the Spirit's activity in the birth of Jesus, the mystery of his person is described, though not explained or made intelligible, in a miracle (which was by no means unique by the standards of the day).
Bar. 50:2). This is how most Jewish teachers solved the problem, as well as those writers who dealt specifically with the end of the world. After death the 'Spirit" continued to live on; it would be reunited with the body, however, only at the resurrection, when both would undergo judgment. One thing however remains unclear. 9 What Does This Mean? Through the centuries, Israel had experienced the Spirit of God at work and had attempted to put these experiences into words. From the very beginning the important thing was that THE HOLY SPIRIT God could break in unexpectedly and destroy all man's thoughts and plans.
But we notice that Matthew, for example, makes long and comected speeches out of passages which in Mark and Luke were still short and separate. In John on the other hand we find discourses dealing not with the kingdom of God but almost exclusively with the person of Jesus. When Jesus speaks in the synoptists it is in relatively short parables about the kingdom of God. In John by contrast all the figurative language is about Jesus himself. " It is impossible that Jesus used both forms of speech, or even that the synoptists preserved one type and John the other.