Saved by the Bell – Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda. “Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at …
Saved by the Well – Jesus at the Feast in the Temple “On the last day, the great day of the Festival, Jesus stood and cried out, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me! Let anyone who believes in me come and drink!’” (John 7:37-38, NJB) SAVED: The Hebrew word for save is “Yasha,” which means to …
Saved by the Well – Jeremiah. “O Lord, You are the hope of Israel; all who forsake You will be disgraced. Those who turn away from You will be written in the dirt, recorded in the underworld, buried in the dust of the hearth; for they have abandoned the Lord, the wellspring of living water.” (Jeremiah 17:13). …
Saved by the Well – Isaiah. “And you shall draw water with rejoicing from the wellsprings of salvation.” (Isaiah 12:3). SAVED: The Hebrew word for save is “Yasha,” which means to be set free into the wide open; to be delivered in a time of desperate need; to be saved from destruction and certain death. “Salvation” literally …
(3.6) “Galahad and the Grail” – Lancelot’s Further Adventures. (this post is in process and incomplete at this time) Book Three: “The Achievement of the Grail“ (by “book” is meant a large section in this installment of Guite’s Arthuriad). Stave Six: “Lancelot’s Further Adventures” (a “stave” is an old-fashioned term for the stanza of a poem, a verse …
Jesus Asks a Question: “Have you not read?” The Grand Inquisitor. Messiah Jesus was a Master of asking questions: some were open-ended, others were very pointed; some were out of curiosity, others were challenging; some seemed rhetorical, others seemed painfully obvious; some were to reveal Himself, others were to guide the other into self-understanding; some were intentionally …
Saved by the Well – Job’s Tree with the Scent of Water. “For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow. Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it …
Saved by the Well of Wisdom. “The speech of the righteous is a wellspring of life.” (Proverbs 10:11). SAVED: The Hebrew word for save is “Yasha,” which means to be set free into the wide open; to be delivered in a time of desperate need; to be saved from destruction and certain death. “Salvation” literally means to become …
(3.5) “Galahad and the Grail” – A Parting of the Ways. Book Three: “The Achievement of the Grail“ (by “book” is meant a large section in this installment of Guite’s Arthuriad). Stave Five: “A Parting of the Ways” (a “stave” is an old-fashioned term for the stanza of a poem, a verse in a song, or a chapter …
Saved by the Well – Water from a Rock (this post is in process and incomplete at this time) “Tremble and quake, O earth, for you are in the presence of the Lord, the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, solid flint rock into a flowing …
Saved by the Well – David. (this post is in process and incomplete at this time) “To know You is to experience a flowing fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” (Ps. 36:9). “Bless God with choruses in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain, the Source of Israel’s life.” (Ps. …
(3.4) “Galahad and the Grail” – The Castle and the Custom. Book Three: “The Achievement of the Grail“ (by “book” is meant a large section in this installment of Guite’s Arthuriad). Stave Four: “The Castle and the Custom” (a “stave” is an old-fashioned term for the stanza of a poem, a verse in a song, or …