Colt
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Thanks again. Jews plotted to kill him (John 11:53) SO Jesus NO LONGER walked in public among the people of Judea (John 11:54) and Jesus continued not walk in public among the people of Judea.
Saying "The claim that Jesus had an obligation to walk around Judea among his enemies yet failed to do so is a human construct, a strawman, a contrived argument" is not true because Acts 26:23 says "the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles". So it is a must had Jesus been resurrected.
*** Acts 26:23 is Paul speaking about preaching the Gospel before and after Jesus returned to heaven which fulfilled what the prophets said. Full context:
19 “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I (Paul) was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
***Jesus had already preached all throughout Judea for 3+ years before being apprehended and killed because of his Gospel. The apostles were to continue to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to the 4 corners of the earth after Jesus returned to heaven.
(Mark 3:7–12; Luke 6:17–19)
23Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. 24News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
25The large crowds that followed Him came from Galilee, the Decapolis,f Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
****John 1:9-13 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. 11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
Lament over Jerusalem
(Luke 13:31–35)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
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