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The Four Gospels

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The Four Gospels	comment	The BibleOld Testament/TanakhGenesis \| Exodus \| Joshua \| Judges \| Ruth \| Samuel \| Kings \| Ezra \| Nehemiah \| Esther \| Job \| Psalms \| Proverbs \| Ecclesiastes \| Songs \| Isaiah \| Jeremiah \| Ezekiel \| Daniel \| Hosea \| Joel \| Amos \| Obadiah \| Jonah \| Micah \| Nahum \| Habakkuk \| Zephania \| Haggai \| Zechariah \| MalachiApocrypha/DeuterocanonicalTobit \| Judith \| MaccabeesNew TestamentGospels \| Acts \| Romans \| Corinthians \| Galatians \| Ephesians \| Philippians \| Colossians \| Thessalonians \| Timothy \| Titus \| Philemon \| Hebrews \| James \| Peter \| John \| Jude \| RevelationThe first four books of the New Testament, chronicling the life of one Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Their name means "Good News";note This etymology dates back to the Gospels' original writing in Koine Greek: euangÃ©lion (no, it's not what you might be thinking of). The actual word gospel originates in Old English as gÅ�dspel, a translation of the original Greek. the idea behind the Gospels is that they exist to record the "good news" of Jesus's death and resurrection and to allow that news to be spread by Christians to the world. As a result, each of the four has a slightly different tone and target. note There are overlaps in these descriptions, and we must be careful not to oversimplify these differences in approach. Matthew - Compares Old Testament scripture with Jesusâ€™ deeds, to appeal to Jews. Has the longest description of his sermons. Mark - Estimated to be the oldest Gospel, written for the Romans, and portrays Jesus as a miracle worker. Luke - Written for Gentiles, and emphasizes Jesus as a Nice Guy who preached kindness and charity. Has the most in-depth look into his origin story and contains the most parables. John - The most introspective Gospel, written for already-convinced Christians and details the divinity of Jesus as "the Word of God."Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the "Synoptic Gospels" (from Greek syn=together, opsis=seeing) because they tell largely the same story. It's generally accepted in modern Biblical scholarship that Mark was written first, and that Matthew and Lukenote Or whoever wrote those books, but let's not get into that fight copied off of Mark and got their info from other sources that no longer exist (called "Q", from German "Quelle", meaning "Source") containing Jesus' sayings and parables. They were also relying on oral traditions as well; Luke, in fact, begins his account with a claim that he has carefully investigated other accounts.John is substantially different from the other three and may have been included in the canon primarily because of its depth of theology despite the fact that it does not precisely align with the Synoptics on the details of Jesus' life at certain points. Biblical historians generally pin it as having been written decades after the Synoptic Gospels. Again, we must emphasize: the Gospels are supposed to be "good news", not "modern historiography"; the chronological difficulties aren't meaningful in the face of the overall message.For the many, many works based off of the Gospels and the Jesus story, see the Useful Notes page for Jesus, the trope Passion Play, the Art Subjects index, and the Bible's Derivative Works page. And for the religion that's been fond of the Gospels, see Christianity.
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The Four Gospels / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Jesus makes a whip of cords and drives away the marketers and money-changers from the Temple with it. Pilate has Jesus scourged before having him crucified.
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The Four Gospels / int_11f5ef55	type	Many Spirits Inside of One
The Four Gospels / int_11f5ef55	comment	Many Spirits Inside of One: Jesus exorcises a demon-possessed man who identifies himself as "Legion, because we are many." If taken at face value that would indicate about a thousand demons. The demons are cast into a herd of swine, which they destroy. Mary Magdalene, in one of the few definite statements about her in Scripture, is said to have have had seven demons cast out of her.
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The Four Gospels / int_134a82d5	type	First Law of Resurrection
The Four Gospels / int_134a82d5	comment	First Law of Resurrection: Jesus returns three earthly episodes after his demise.
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The Four Gospels / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
The Four Gospels / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: The attitude above under Intimidating Revenue Service sets up the following plum bit of narration in Luke 7:29: "When all the people and the tax collectors heard this..." After His resurrection, Jesus tells the women to "Go tell his disciples and Peter." This is an inversion of the trope, however, since Jesus is saying "Despite his Friendship Denial, make sure that Peter knows he's still included."
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The Four Gospels / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Four Gospels / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Crucifixion is a horrible way to die, no doubt about it. It could take days before the victim died of blood loss, dehydration and exposure to the elements, which is why the victims' legs were broken on the day after to speed up the process note this would put pressure on their lungs and make them suffocate, basically a Mercy Kill. When they go to do this to Jesus, though, they find he's already dead. (Note that he was also tortured severely for hours before being put on the cross and forced to carry the big heavy thing most of the way to the execution site.)
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The Four Gospels / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Four Gospels / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: C. S. Lewis argued the story of Thomas doubting Jesus had risen was this. When Jesus told him "You have believed because you have seen. Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed." this was not, in Lewis's view, endorsing a blind faith. Rather, because Thomas had already seen Jesus perform many miracles (including another resurrection) and heard him predict his own, refusal to believe without seeing him was unreasonable. For someone else, Lewis agreed it would be reasonable wanting to see Jesus personally before they believed.
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The Four Gospels / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Four Gospels / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Jesus in the gospels of Matthew and Luke says "nobody can serve two masters, for you will love the one and hate the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other." He adds to that that "you cannot serve both God and Mammon [or money]."
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The Four Gospels / int_14e06eb9	type	Jesus Was Crazy
The Four Gospels / int_14e06eb9	comment	Jesus Was Crazy In Mark's gospel, some of Jesus's relatives try to stop him from preaching after hearing that "He is beside Himself." This along with accusations that he's exorcising through some demonic power prompt Jesus to ask how in the world a crazy man could drive out the Devil and why in the world would the Devil drive out himself. This specific blasphemy of attributing the Holy Spirit's work to Satan is labelled as unforgivable. And as Jesus notes, they said similar things about His immediate predecessor:
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The Four Gospels / int_14e41a53	type	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Four Gospels / int_14e41a53	comment	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Jesus warns His followers in His Sermon on the Mount in the gospel of Matthew to beware of false prophets "who come to you in sheepâ€™s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." He also warns in His parable of the wheat and tares that the tares (agriculturally, a type of weed that resembles wheat called darnel) are "the sons of the devil" that are sown among the wheat, which will be bundled up and burned by the angels who will reap the fields at the end of the age.
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The Four Gospels / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
The Four Gospels / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: After betraying Jesus and regretting it, Judas tried to get the Sanhedrin to reverse the transaction, but they would have none of it. He was Driven to Suicide as a result.
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The Four Gospels / int_16365fa0	type	You Fool!
The Four Gospels / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: Jesus warns in His Sermon On The Mount that calling somebody a "fool" out of malicious anger would make that person likely to be punished with hellfire.note When He proceeds to denounce the Pharisees and scribes in His "The Reason You Suck" Speech as "fools and blind" later on, it's out of justified or righteous anger over their own religious hypocrisy. There's also the fact that the word translated as fool, moros, in the Sermon on the Mount is thought to have had the secondary meaning of "godless" or "apostate", a serious insult for Jesus's time. Which explains why Jesus would have condemned calling someone that out of malicious anger in the first place.
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The Four Gospels / int_16405e4b	type	Expensive Glass of Crap
The Four Gospels / int_16405e4b	comment	Expensive Glass of Crap: Referenced in the story of the wedding at Cana. It was customary to bring out lower-quality wine after the guests were tipsy, but when Jesus turned water into wine, he turned it into the good stuff and people could tell the difference.
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The Four Gospels / int_16b7dccd	type	You Never Did That for Me
The Four Gospels / int_16b7dccd	comment	You Never Did That for Me: Happens at the end of the parable of The Prodigal Son, where the brother who didn't leave home and waste all his money wonders why he doesn't get a fatted calf. Also in the latter half of the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, the King (implied to be Jesus) says to those who are doomed to destruction in the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels, "Whatsoever you didn't do for the least of My brethren, you didn't do for Me."
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The Four Gospels / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
The Four Gospels / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: In Matthew 10:34-36, Jesus warns that His teachings will cause families to turn against each other.
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The Four Gospels / int_16fbce44	comment	Liquid Assets: In the gospels of Mark and Luke, Jesus' healing power worked by just a woman with uncontrollable bleeding touching the fringe of His garment, and Jesus sensed this happening even when He had a throng of people pressing toward Him, so the woman made herself known and what she did, and Jesus told her that her faith had saved her and to go in peace. In three of the four Gospels, there was a crowd of people who were healed just by touching the fringe of Jesus' garment. There were a few instances where Jesus performed healings on people without necessarily being there to perform them. In the gospels of Matthew and Luke, a centurion had a servant at home who was ill who came to Jesus to ask for a healing, but said, "I am not worthy to have You come into my home, but say the word, and my servant will be healed." Jesus commended the centurion for his faith and thus granted his request. In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, a Canaanite/Syro-Phoenician woman came to Jesus and begged for Him to cast out a demon from her daughter. Jesus initially refused at first, saying, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not fitting to give the children's food to the dogs," but when the woman said, "True, Lord, but even the dogs will eat the crumbs off the children's table," Jesus commended her for her faith and thus granted her request. In the gospel of John, an official came to Jesus to ask for healing for his son, and was told by Jesus to return home because his son will live, and thus returned home to find that his son was healed at the same hour that Jesus spoke.
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The Four Gospels / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
The Four Gospels / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: First appeared as the counterpart to the title character in Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus makes the point that he's not really morally superior to his wayward brother because his dutifulness is not out of love for his father. Jesus also told a parable about a father who told his two sons to work in his vineyard. The first one said no, but later went and worked, while the second one said yes, but didn't go. Jesus asked his listeners which son did his father's will, and the answer was the first son, of course.
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The Four Gospels / int_175683fa	type	Staging an Intervention
The Four Gospels / int_175683fa	comment	Staging an Intervention: Matthew 18:16: "If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses."
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The Four Gospels / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
The Four Gospels / int_17975d1b	comment	Unstable Equilibrium: The Parable of the Talents ends with the famous Matthew Effect: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath."
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The Four Gospels / int_192c6284	type	Enemies Equals Greatness
The Four Gospels / int_192c6284	comment	Enemies Equals Greatness: Some verses such as Matthew 5:11-12 and John 15:18-20 deal with this as far as following Jesus is concerned. The former assures that being hated and persecuted for the sake of following God's righteousness leads to great rewards, whereas the latter assures that it's better to have human enemies than to be God's enemy. On the other hand, Jesus also explains that the reason people who follow Him have enemies is mainly that Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, so He commands us to love and pray for our enemies rather than retaliating.
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The Four Gospels / int_1964a1b5	type	Holiday Pardon
The Four Gospels / int_1964a1b5	comment	Holiday Pardon: It was a tradition for the Roman governor of Judea to release a prisoner (of the Jewish crowd's choosing) during the Passover feast. When Jesus is arrested, Pontius Pilate is reluctant to have him executed, but also fears to defy the Jewish religious leaders who want Jesus dead. Pilate tries to escape the situation by suggesting that Jesus could be this year's Passover pardon, but the crowd (egged on by the religious leaders) rejects this, insisting on releasing the insurrectionist Barabbas instead.
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The Four Gospels / int_19660a62	type	Non-Specifically Foreign
The Four Gospels / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: All Matthew says of the origin of the Magi is that they came "from the east", though the implication is that they're Zoroastrians from Persia.
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The Four Gospels / int_19aa50f3	type	Torment by Annoyance
The Four Gospels / int_19aa50f3	comment	Torment by Annoyance: Jesus uses the parable of the persistent widow who keeps bothering an unjust judge to give her justice from her adversary in the gospel of Luke — the judge who eventually gave in to her demand just to keep her from bothering him — as a lesson for believers to never give up when praying to God, assuring them that God will avenge them speedily. Another parable He uses to make that same point is a person shamelessly knocking on his neighbor's door at night to give him some bread that he can set before his guests to eat, saying that the neighbor won't give him what he wants just because he is his friend, but simply to get his neighbor to stop disturbing him and his family.
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The Four Gospels / int_19e13868	type	Ancient Rome
The Four Gospels / int_19e13868	comment	Ancient Rome: Judea (now part of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon) was a Roman province during the time of Jesus.
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The Four Gospels / int_1a2636ee	type	Crucial Cross
The Four Gospels / int_1a2636ee	comment	Crucial Cross: The Ur-Example of this trope is the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, best known from the accounts of it in these books. The horror of his death on the cross was transformed by the belief that he returned to life into hope that all men might escape death and sin in the same way. Still, the Gospels never describe the Cross itself as something hopeful, nor do they describe Christians using it as a symbol, so it appears they merely inspired the use of this trope rather than making it.
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The Four Gospels / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Four Gospels / int_1ba17583	comment	Some scholars have interpreted the relationship between Pilate and the Jewish leaders as evidence for one; not Tiberius, who besides a single mention in Luke is The Ghost, but the captain of the Prateorian Guard and effective tyrant in Rome, Sejanus,note Tiberius had absconded his duties to have sex parties in Capri during Jesus' career as a preacher, following numerous family conspiracies and tragedies who was notorious for his antisemitic policies. Pilate's extrabiblical activities are generally heavy-handed and brutal, but his execution of Jesus after the implied threat from the Jewish leaders that refusing to do so would mean incurring Caesar's wrath has been taken to mean that Sejanus had died by that point and he would've had to answer directly to Tiberius, who had rescinded Sejanus' antisemitic policies.
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The Four Gospels / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Four Gospels / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: In the gospel of Luke, Jesus sent His disciples into a Samaritan village to get things ready for Him, but they did not receive Him as He was heading for Jerusalem. His disciples asked if He wanted them to command fire to come down on that village just like Elijah. Jesus rebuked them for making such a suggestion, saying, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them."note The rebuke quote is found only in the King James Version as well as the translations that use the Textus Receptus for its New Testament.
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The Four Gospels / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Four Gospels / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Inverted by Jesus, who tells people to Turn the Other Cheek, instead.
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The Four Gospels / int_1dab5333	type	Total Eclipse of the Plot
The Four Gospels / int_1dab5333	comment	Total Eclipse of the Plot: According to Mark, Luke and Matthew, a period of darkness occurred during Jesus' crucifixion, lasting from noon to 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Of the three evangelists that mention the three-hour darkness, Luke is the only one who seems to imagine it as an eclipse ("the sun's light failed"), whereas Mark and Matthew only say that "darkness fell over all the land" (or possibly, "the entire world"). Solar eclipses generally last a few minutes (as opposed to hours), and also the Gospels say that Jesus was crucified on the first day of Passover, which is held at full moon when solar eclipses cannot occur.
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The Four Gospels / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Four Gospels / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Satan tempts Jesus by offering him all the kingdoms of the world in exchange for just a little worship. Of course, Jesus didn't bite the bait.
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The Four Gospels / int_21725cb2	type	Rash Promise
The Four Gospels / int_21725cb2	comment	Rash Promise: Per Matthew, Mark, and Luke, King Herod was so enticed by the dancing girl Salome he told her to ask him for anything she wanted. The queen told Salome to ask for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter, which the king was particularly reluctant to give as he appreciated John's teachings. Nevertheless, he gave the order for the execution.
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The Four Gospels / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Four Gospels / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The Trope Namer, as Jesus says in three of the Gospels that a house divided against itself cannot stand, saying that if Satan could cast out himself from a person possessed by him, his kingdom could not stand.
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The Four Gospels / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
The Four Gospels / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: John the Baptist's head is put on a platter and delivered to Herod's wife.
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The Four Gospels / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Four Gospels / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Jesus says "I come not to bring peace but a sword." (Though considering the pacifistic inclination of Jesus' other teachings, many Christians interpret this as a metaphorical sword.)
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The Four Gospels / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Jesus, although this is mainly aimed at Satan, the Pharisees, and the merchants who defiled the temple.
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The Four Gospels / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Jesus tells His followers in John chapter 6 that unless they "eat His flesh" and "drink His blood", they will have no life in Him. This was assumed to mean some form of cannibalism among the Jews, which caused many to walk away from Him. Catholic interpretations take this to mean transubstantiation, which is what was assumed to take place at the Last Supper when Jesus blessed the bread and the wine, saying "This is My body" and "This is the cup of the new covenant in My blood." Other groups take a more metaphorical interpretation, seeing the bread and cup as a reminder and memorial of Jesus's sacrifice. This ties into the Passover Seder note The precursor of the Lord's Supper being full of imagery and figurative language.
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The Four Gospels / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
The Four Gospels / int_225d4412	comment	In terms of how the Gospels themselves portray him, Played Straight. He survived an attempted stoning, and when he found out about the moneychangers' tables in the temple he sat down for a good hour and braided himself a whip which he then used to chase them out. He apparently kept it with him after that because he broke it out again later to do the exact same thing. He told a storm to shut the hell up because he was trying to sleep and it listened, brought multiple people back from the dead simply by asking then nicely (and sometimes not so nicely), cured a blind man with spit and dirt, and his mere presence was enough to cast out demons and cure mental illnesses. Not to mention the fact that most victims of crucifixion are tied to the cross, Jesus was nailed.
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The Four Gospels / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
The Four Gospels / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: In the gospel accounts of Mark and Luke, the man who is possessed by Legion would spend his night in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones.
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The Four Gospels / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Four Gospels / int_230d64	comment	They made oaths binding when sworn on the gold of the Temple instead of the Temple itself, or on the gift on the altar instead of the altar itself.
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The Four Gospels / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
The Four Gospels / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: "'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'" (Matthew 2:6, citing Micah 5:2) Also, Nazareth was just a tiny town of probably less than 500 people of dubious reputation until one former local started a movement that grew into one of the world's largest religions. When first told about a new prophet named Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael scoffs, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" And the Pharisees themselves, when Nicodemus brings up what the Laws says about hearing out what men of God are saying before judging them, rebut his words by telling him to "search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee".
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The Four Gospels / int_23a0f25f	type	Easy Road to Hell
The Four Gospels / int_23a0f25f	comment	Easy Road to Hell: Jesus in Matthew 7:13-14 compares the easy road to Hell with the hard road to Heaven: As a corollary to this trope, in the gospel of Luke, when one of His disciples ask, "Lord, are there only a few that will be saved?", and Jesus answers, "Strive to enter into the narrow gate, for many, I say, will try to enter and will not be able."
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The Four Gospels / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Four Gospels / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Jesus quotes the traditional interpretation of the Old Testament quite a few times to make a point and contrast his new Christian ethics against the old Jewish ones. Jesus quotes the Torah in the desert to justify rejecting Satan. The Devil himself tries to use Psalm 91:11-12 to convince Jesus to put God to the test, but Jesus counters his reference with the command of Deuteronomy 6:16.
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The Four Gospels / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
The Four Gospels / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: Jesus uses the phrase "wherever there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather" as a metaphor regarding the signs of the end coming in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, possibly symbolizing a coming judgment.
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The Four Gospels / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
The Four Gospels / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: It's all too clear that Jesus has his oppressors, particularly the Pharisees, but Jesus, being Jesus, has nothing but love for them. During his time on the cross, he openly laments to God, praying for his killers that they are confused, not detestable.
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The Four Gospels / int_24a045cd	type	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency
The Four Gospels / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Jesus speaks about this attitude to His followers in Luke 17:7-10:
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The Four Gospels / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Four Gospels / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The "Give unto Caesar" scene relies on the coins having Caesar's face on them; such coins were not used in Judea prior to the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. The coins the Jews used to pay taxes to the Roman government was the Tyrian shekel, which had another image on it (seen by the Tyrians as Melqart, and by the Romans as Hercules); the coin may also have been a tetradrachm issued from Antioch which would've had Tiberius' image on it.
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The Four Gospels / int_25a19aa5	type	Turn the Other Cheek
The Four Gospels / int_25a19aa5	comment	Turn the Other Cheek: Trope Namer. From the Sermon on the Mount in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, â€œYou have heard that it was said, â€˜An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.â€™ But I say to you, do not resist an evil person. But whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other as well. And if anyone sues you in a court of law and takes away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go a mile, go with him two." (Matthew 5:38-41) Jesus advocates responding to personal aggression and violence with non-violence instead of returning evil for evil.
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The Four Gospels / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
The Four Gospels / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: In the Matthew and Luke renderings of the Olivet Discourse, Jesus warns that the days before His Second Coming are going to be like "the days of Noah" (and in the gospel of Luke, "the days of Sodom") where people will be doing seemingly ordinary things like "marrying and giving in marriage" until disaster strikes without any warning. Jesus also warns His disciples in the gospel of Luke to not let their hearts be weighed down with "carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life," lest the Day of His Coming will catch them unaware, for it will be like a snare to those who live on the face of the whole earth.
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The Four Gospels / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
The Four Gospels / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heelâ€“Faith Turn: Probably the most notable among them was one of the thieves on the cross. In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, they were among those who were reviling Jesus, but in the gospel of Luke, one of the thieves continue to do so while the other, realizing that his end is coming and that he is going to face God in eternity for his deeds, rebukes the thief still reviling Jesus, saying that they're both under the same condemnation and deservedly so for their actions while Jesus did nothing wrong to deserve His sentence. He then says, "Lord, remember me when you enter into Your kingdom," and Jesus replies, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." Despite the Pharisees being generally treated as the villains of the story, some of them did buy into Jesus's teachings. Most notably Nicodemus (and Paul, but that's another story), who came to talk to Jesus at night so that his fellows wouldn't spot him.
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The Four Gospels / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The Four Gospels / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Jesus is not only the son of God, but the only man who has never sinned a single time in his life. It is important to notice that while he never sinned, theologians and religious folk will point out that he faced every temptation known to man, but rejected all of them without using his godly powers, in order to set an example for mankind.
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The Four Gospels / int_28d87218	type	Food End
The Four Gospels / int_28d87218	comment	Food End: Jesus and the Disciples have breakfast in the last chapter of the Gospel of John.
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The Four Gospels / int_2bffe89	type	Listing the Forms of Degenerates
The Four Gospels / int_2bffe89	comment	Listing the Forms of Degenerates: In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus lists the things that come from within that would defile a man:
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The Four Gospels / int_2c490738	type	Empty Piles of Clothing
The Four Gospels / int_2c490738	comment	Empty Piles of Clothing: Or in this case, empty piles of burial wrapping, as Mary Magdalene and those who followed her to the tomb found on the third day when Jesus had risen.
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The Four Gospels / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Four Gospels / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Joseph not unnaturally assumes that Mary's virgin pregnancy is the result of her sleeping with another man, until the Archangel Gabriel appears to him in a dream and assures him that she is telling the truth. Reading between the lines, Jesus' "uncertain" (to the rest of the world) parentage seems to be a matter of gossip well into his adulthood—when he goes to his hometown claiming to be The Chosen One, his old neighbors (depending on the gospel) refer to him as "Mary's son" but not Joseph's; the Pharisees once sneer that at least they know who their father is.
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The Four Gospels / int_2d8da79	type	Clueless Aesop
The Four Gospels / int_2d8da79	comment	Clueless Aesop: The "Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard" has often been described as a very difficult story to interpret, and is possibly broken. In the literal sense, while the landowner is entitled to pay the laborers however he sees fit, this doesn't make him a fair master for giving all workers the same pay, including those who showed up at the final hour. This kind of unethical malpractice will get you into trouble as an employer in real life...so if you want to keep your workforce happy and moralized, do NOT do it. Figuratively, it's saying God saves by grace, not by our worthiness, or timing of conversion. Eleventh-hour workers would be welcomed as equals in God's Kingdom along with the first hires. Obviously this teaching can backfire horribly if people take that as permission to be absolute jerks in this life, and seek a Deathbed Confession at the last minute.
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The Four Gospels / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
The Four Gospels / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: One of the powers of true believers, according to Fanon, along with the ability to drink anything poisonous, exorcise demons, heal the sick, and for truest of true believers Nigh-Invulnerability against demons and evil spirits! A few American groups interpret the source for this one (speaking in tongues) to mean a language absolutely nobody on Earth understands. No one seems to know why.
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The Four Gospels / int_2e3a46ba	type	Second Coming
The Four Gospels / int_2e3a46ba	comment	Second Coming: Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, and Luke chapter 21 cover prophecies that will happen leading up to the Lord's second coming "at the end of the age", including the desolation of Jerusalem (fulfilled in the 1st Century C.E., but also suggesting a future one to come) and the setting up of the "abomination of desolation" prophesied in the Book of Daniel. Matthew chapter 25 contains three parables related to the event: that of the ten virgins (or bridesmaids), that of the talents, and that of the "sheep and goats" judgment where the King will reward those who cared for "the least of My brethren" with entrance into the eternal Kingdom of God and sends away those who didn't care for "the least of My brethren" into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. It should be noted, however, that at the time Jesus spoke this, His disciples weren't expecting a second coming, but rather were expecting Him to set up the Kingdom of God here on earth during His time with them on earth.
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The Four Gospels / int_2f4a50be	type	Thoughtcrime
The Four Gospels / int_2f4a50be	comment	Thought Crime: In His Sermon On The Mount, Jesus says that not only is committing adultery sinful, so is even thinking of doing it when looking at somebody to lust after them.
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The Four Gospels / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Four Gospels / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: The New Testament was largely written Koine Greek, except for the occasional Aramaic phrase (translated into Greek for convenience). The most famous of these is Jesus' cry from the cross:
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The Four Gospels / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Four Gospels / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Peter shows boldness when Jesus announces in the Last Supper he will be executed. Jesus answers him that he would deny him thrice. When Peter infiltrates into the Pharisees place after Jesus' arrest, to deny being Peter he denies knowing Jesus three times.
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The Four Gospels / int_30e50131	type	The Golden Rule
The Four Gospels / int_30e50131	comment	The Golden Rule: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that doing unto others as you would have done unto you is what the Law and the Prophets (the teaching of the entire Old Testament Scripture) are all about.
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The Four Gospels / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
The Four Gospels / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Jesus, who is derided by most of the authorities as a dangerous, subversive rebel who consorts with and draws his support from the lowliest dregs of society.
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The Four Gospels / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
The Four Gospels / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Jesus deals with this problem among the religious people in His Sermon on the Mount in the gospel of Matthew by pointing out three things: (1) don't announce your doing good deeds before men with trumpets or "let your left hand know what your right hand does" because the only reward you'll get is from men, not from God; (2) don't pray in public in order to garner public attention unto yourself, for the same reason; and (3) don't draw attention unto yourself to the fact that you are fasting, also for the same reason.
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The Four Gospels / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
The Four Gospels / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Subverted with Peter. He often speaks from the heart, such as when he calls Jesus God or when he tells Jesus he loves him. This bites him later when Jesus is condemned and Peter denies knowing him three times.
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The Four Gospels / int_3754b680	type	Temporary Blindness
The Four Gospels / int_3754b680	comment	Temporary Blindness: John the Baptist's father Zachariah is given temporary muteness (and, as some might even point out, temporary deafness) when he questions Gabriel's announcement to him that his wife is going to have a baby. This condition is only lifted after the child is born and Zachariah's relatives ask him what the child will be named, and he writes on a writing tablet that his name is John.
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The Four Gospels / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Four Gospels / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Subverted. Jesus dies in the crucifixion and his disciples believe he's really died, emphasized by the Road to Emmaus story. Except he rises from the dead by the end of the Gospels.
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The Four Gospels / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
The Four Gospels / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: A large part of the action involves Jesus arguing with the Pharisees, or with His own disciples, about the right interpretation of the Laws of Moses. (Note that Jesus Himself was Jewish too, of course.)
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The Four Gospels / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Four Gospels / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Jesus, although how He did this varies among the Gospel accounts. In the Gospel of John, when the guards come for Him, He casually allows them to arrest Him and let His followers go, and even as He endured the brutality of scourging and being crucified, Jesus seems to react with a strangely resigned poise. In the Synoptic Gospels, however, Jesus had to spend some time praying to God the Father in the garden of Gethsemane for either the cup of suffering to pass from Him or just to have His Father's will be done.
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The Four Gospels / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Four Gospels / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, when Jesus tells His disciples that He is going to Jerusalem to be crucified, Peter pulls Jesus aside and rebukes Him for making such a statement. Jesus in turn says, "Get behind Me, Satan. For you do not savor the things that be of God, but the things that be of men." Some Bible students interpret that as Jesus not speaking directly to Peter, but rather to the spirit that was using Peter to dissuade Jesus from His earthly mission. Some scholars have interpreted the relationship between Pilate and the Jewish leaders as evidence for one; not Tiberius, who besides a single mention in Luke is The Ghost, but the captain of the Prateorian Guard and effective tyrant in Rome, Sejanus,note Tiberius had absconded his duties to have sex parties in Capri during Jesus' career as a preacher, following numerous family conspiracies and tragedies who was notorious for his antisemitic policies. Pilate's extrabiblical activities are generally heavy-handed and brutal, but his execution of Jesus after the implied threat from the Jewish leaders that refusing to do so would mean incurring Caesar's wrath has been taken to mean that Sejanus had died by that point and he would've had to answer directly to Tiberius, who had rescinded Sejanus' antisemitic policies.
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The Four Gospels / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Four Gospels / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The gospel writers have a tendency to introduce Judas Iscariot as "the one who would betray Him." Jesus also prophesies His death and resurrection on multiple occasions.
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The Four Gospels / int_3c878b40	type	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness
The Four Gospels / int_3c878b40	comment	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Pharisees find fault with Jesus and His disciples for not washing their hands before they eat, with the gospel of Mark going into explaining why the Pharisees do this, and ask Him, "Why do Your disciples transgress against the tradition of the elders?" Jesus in turn asks them, "Why do you transgress against the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?" and tells them about one of their traditions that goes against the commandment of God, namely the Corban tradition that goes against "honor your father and your mother." He goes on to say that eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man, for food only goes into a man's stomach and then into the sewer, "thus purging all foods," but rather what comes out of a man's heart is what defiles him. He also likens them to people who clean the outside of a cup, but leaving the inside dirty, and to whitewashed tombs, in both cases accusing them of trying to put on outside appearances of cleanliness while not reforming their inner selves. In the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke chapter 10, the priest and the Levite as they see the wounded man on the road pass by on the other side, presumably to keep themselves from being defiled by touching what seemed to be a dead body. The woman with the uncontrollable bleeding for twelve years was in a bind, as the book of Leviticus states that a woman who has bleeding long past the time of her usual period was considered "unclean" and thus could not enter into the sanctuary of God until her bleeding stopped. As she spent all her money on being cured of this problem, but only made it worse, she in desperation reached out to touch the hem of Jesus' garment, and instantly her bleeding stopped. Jesus turned to address the woman that touched Him, and told her to go in peace and be healed.
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The Four Gospels / int_3d64d015	type	The Middle Ages
The Four Gospels / int_3d64d015	comment	Matthew, Mark and Luke have Passover beginning on Thursday night, with the Last Supper as a seder Jesus celebrated with his followers the night before he was crucified on Friday afternoon. The issue with this is that, according to the rules of the Hebrew calendar, Passover can't start on a Thursday night (though the rules governing that weren't completely codified until The Middle Ages).ExplanationIt's convoluted, but basically, the calendar is structured so that the major holidays can only fall on a specific set of four days of the week, and Passover can only start at sundown on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. But since the Jewish day started in the evening,not the morning, the days can get confused. John avoids this by explicitly placing the start of Passover on Friday night, after the Crucifixion. It's been argued that the other three gospels are actually compatible with a Friday Passover too, it's just that Jesus decided to celebrate one day early since he wouldn't be around for the real holiday.
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The Four Gospels / int_3edeeff4	type	Son of a Whore
The Four Gospels / int_3edeeff4	comment	Son of a Whore: Jesus is implicitly referred to as this in the gospel of John when a group of Jews said "we are not born of fornication" (their way of saying "born out of wedlock"). In the Living Bible translation, when the Jewish leaders continue to press the man healed of blindness to confess that Jesus is a sinner and the man refuses to do so, declaring Jesus to be of God, the Pharisees ended up calling him a bastard.
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The Four Gospels / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
The Four Gospels / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: Satan using a few verses in Psalm 91 in order to tempt Jesus from jumping off the high point of the Temple. He quotes it as "He shall give His angels charge over you," and, "In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone." When the actual verses are "For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone." Granted, this is only a translation of what was actually said, but still Jesus knew what Satan was trying to do there and counters with quoting Scripture accurately.
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The Four Gospels / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Four Gospels / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastards: Jesus healed ten lepers, and only one of them, a Samaritan, bothered to thank Him. Jesus also told the parable of a man who, after having his debts forgiven by his master, went after and bullied a fellow servant who owed him a mere pittance in comparison. Jesus' parable of the two debtors who were forgiven their debts by the moneylender, told in the gospel of Luke to Simon the Pharisee in regard to a sinful woman visiting Him during a dinner, shows that the level of gratitude shown to God for His forgiveness is dependent on how much one has been forgiven of their sins: that whoever loves much is one who is forgiven of much, while whoever loves little is one who is forgiven of little.
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The Four Gospels / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Four Gospels / int_407d3e6d	comment	The Jewish leaders tried this tactic when Jesus presented them with a Morton's Fork question of His own — "The baptism of John [the Baptist] — was it from heaven, or was it from men?" — by simply answering that they don't know, but it doesn't work out for them, as Jesus refused to answer the question they posed on Him before that.
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The Four Gospels / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Four Gospels / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Jesus is gone from the earthly realm but the apostles vow to spread his message to the rest of the world.
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The Four Gospels / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Four Gospels / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Jesus refuting all of Satan's temptations in the desert.
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The Four Gospels / int_41a32b6	type	Mystical Pregnancy
The Four Gospels / int_41a32b6	comment	Mystical Pregnancy: Not just Mary's conception of Jesus, which was through the Holy Spirit, but also Elizabeth's conception of John the Baptist at an age where she was past menopause and she and her husband Zachariah were too old to be parents.
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The Four Gospels / int_42b97a7c	type	I'm Having Soul Pains
The Four Gospels / int_42b97a7c	comment	I'm Having Soul Pains: In at least the gospels of Matthew and Mark, as Jesus was nearing the time of His death, Jesus told His disciples that His soul felt sorrowful, even unto death, and that He needed to stop and pray.
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The Four Gospels / int_442f5893	type	Jesus: The Early Years
The Four Gospels / int_442f5893	comment	Jesus: The Early Years: Except for His birth and a brief (but important) story that takes place when He was twelve, the Gospels are pretty much silent on this; we just get a Time Skip to His early thirties when He took up the preaching gig. Speculation abounds. The most likely but boring explanation is that He just spent His time working for/with Joseph, i.e. nothing exciting enough to write about. Indeed, the Gospels' lack of info on Jesus's childhood is probably why this trope exists in the first place.
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The Four Gospels / int_45a01289	type	Angel Unaware
The Four Gospels / int_45a01289	comment	Angel Unaware: In the Judgment of the Sheep and Goats in Matthew chapter 25, Jesus as the great King tells both groups, "I am hungry, and you gave Me food/gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink/gave Me nothing to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in/did not invite Me; I was naked, and you clothed Me/did not clothe Me; I was sick, and you visited Me/did not visit Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me/did not come to Me." As both groups ask where they saw Him and ministered (or did not ministered) to Him, He says, "Whenever you did it (or did not do it) to the least of these My brethren, you did it (or did not do it) to Me."
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The Four Gospels / int_45af45f7	type	They Just Don't Get It
The Four Gospels / int_45af45f7	comment	They Just Dont Get It: Happened often with Jesus' disciples. At one point, Jesus even exclaimed in frustration, "Don't you understand even yet?" They didn't even get it after meeting the resurrected Jesus in person until He explained the Bible to them.
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The Four Gospels / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
The Four Gospels / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: In Matthew, Jesus goes back to Nazareth, where he grew up. His frigid reception causes him to lampshade this trope. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor." Things don't go so well, because, honestly, how seriously would you take your old neighbor if he suddenly showed up after years of living out of town, going on about how he's the son of God and the new age is at hand? In the gospel of Luke, Jesus says this after He stands up in the synagogue in Nazareth to read Isaiah 61:1-2 (stopping short of adding "and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn") and then declares "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
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The Four Gospels / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
The Four Gospels / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: In the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John, John the Baptist had to deal with people who thought that he was the coming Messiah, and tells them plainly (using a quote from Isaiah) that he was merely sent as a prophet to prepare the way for the Lord's coming, that he himself only baptizes with water, but the Messiah that is coming will baptize "with the Holy Spirit and with fire". In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus says many will come in His name, claiming to be the Christ, and will draw many people astray after them, and that there will be false prophets and false Christs that will perform signs and wonders that would, if possible, deceive the very elect.
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The Four Gospels / int_471c46f8	type	Allegory
The Four Gospels / int_471c46f8	comment	Allegory: Most of Jesus' parables fall into this genre. For instance, after telling the Parable of the Sower, Jesus explains to his disciples that the sower is the one who tells the gospel, the seed is the word, and the four different types of soil are four possible responses the hearers may have to it.invoked
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The Four Gospels / int_477bc5c4	type	Go and Sin No More
The Four Gospels / int_477bc5c4	comment	Go and Sin No More: Another Trope Namer, from Jesus' response to a woman caught in adultery (John 8). Before that, in John chapter 5, when Jesus found the crippled man He healed in the Temple, He tells him, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you."
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The Four Gospels / int_4930959c	type	Bigger Than Jesus
The Four Gospels / int_4930959c	comment	Bigger Than Jesus: Ironically enough, Jesus himself invokes this trope, mentioning that he's "greater than Solomon" and "greater than Jonah" in a third-person kind of way.
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The Four Gospels / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Four Gospels / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: The Sadducees refused to accept there was life after death. However, they did test Jesus with a question of whose wife would she be of the seven brothers that married her in turn and died without leaving her a child when all eight of them are resurrected. Jesus told them that they were in error, not knowing either the Scriptures or the power of God, reminding them that there is a resurrection of the dead, and that even though Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are no longer among the living, they are still considered alive to God, for He is "not a God of the dead, but of the living."
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The Four Gospels / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Four Gospels / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: The chief priests unto Jesus, then the soldiers that whipped Him and placed the crown of thorns on His head, and eventually the crowd that saw Jesus carrying His cross up to Golgotha, on the day leading to His crucifixion.
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The Four Gospels / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Four Gospels / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus declined to perform many miracles in a certain town due to unbelief, since they saw Him merely as the son of a carpenter and not God made manifest in the flesh.
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The Four Gospels / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
The Four Gospels / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: Inverted in the Gospel of Luke with one of the two criminals who was crucified with Jesus and who rebuked the other one for mocking Jesus.
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The Four Gospels / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Four Gospels / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: In the gospels of Matthew and Luke, during Jesus' three temptations, Satan tempts Him with rulership of the entire world if He would bow down and worship Him, implying He could have all the wealth in the world. Jesus refuses and says, "Begone, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"
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The Four Gospels / int_4ed2cd33	type	Meekness is Weakness
The Four Gospels / int_4ed2cd33	comment	Meekness is Weakness: Jesus preached that the meek are blessed and said "I am meek and humble of heart." However, the "weakness" part is pretty thoroughly defied by Jesus' Badass Pacifist tendencies.
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The Four Gospels / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Four Gospels / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set A lucrative business of changing "unclean" foreign currency to "proper" Temple shekels and selling animals "acceptable" for sacrifice had sprung up in the Court of Gentiles (and it was very likely that the priests were in on this business, so guess what they always said was unacceptable?). Jesus was having none of it because Jewish people who wanted to worship God were being gouged and Gentiles who wanted to worship God had to put up with the noise and smell of a marketplace. So he turned the money changers' tables over and drove out both the animals and unscrupulous businessmen. Then he sat down to teach. Jesus in the Olivet Discourse predicts the destruction of the Temple, which in extra-Biblical accounts took place in 70 AD.
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The Four Gospels / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
The Four Gospels / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Jesus was betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter, two of his closest friends from the inner circle of apostles. Played with in that Jesus knew both events were coming and even foretold them to the disciples, but the betrayals are still treated as shocking. Peter later repents and is forgiven, but Judas is Driven to Suicide.
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The Four Gospels / int_509769e7	type	Numerological Motif
The Four Gospels / int_509769e7	comment	Numerological Motif: Out of Jesus's many miracles, the Gospel of John focuses only on seven, the number of perfection.
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The Four Gospels / int_5214816a	type	Miracle Food
The Four Gospels / int_5214816a	comment	Miracle Food: The miracle of the loaves and fish that Jesus accomplished twice during His earthly ministry, as mentioned in the Gospels. In the Gospel of John, the mass feeding of a few thousand from a boy's lunch prompted them to ask for Jesus to give them the "true bread of heaven" (thinking He's going to reinstate the miracle of the manna from the Book of Exodus) so that they would never go hungry, and Jesus tells them, "I am the Bread of Heaven", which ends up turning a good deal of them away when they realize what that would entail.
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The Four Gospels / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
The Four Gospels / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: This happened with most of the apostles, because any Jewish person would've jumped at the chance of being a disciple to a rabbi. Jesus would simply say "Follow me," and they would drop everything they were doing and follow Him. Only the Gospel of Luke among the Synoptics has Peter hesitate to follow the call because he is a "sinful man". In the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, he just follows without comment.
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The Four Gospels / int_53c8d46	type	The Underworld
The Four Gospels / int_53c8d46	comment	The Underworld: Hades and Gehenna (most commonly referred to as Hell with hardly any distinction in most English translations) are mentioned by Jesus as places that the wicked and unbelieving will go to, with Hades being the grave and Gehenna (based on the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which at that time was considered Unholy Ground) being where "the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:44,46,48, quoting Isaiah 66:24).
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The Four Gospels / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
The Four Gospels / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: Jesus taught that any sin can be forgiven, with the one exception of "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit." (This is most commonly understood as refusing to repent, or attributing the works of God to the Devil.)
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The Four Gospels / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Four Gospels / int_5539b84f	comment	They shut out people from entering into "the Kingdom of God" and refuse to enter in themselves.
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The Four Gospels / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
The Four Gospels / int_55554032	comment	Irrational Hatred: Jesus claims this is true of his enemies' hatred for him. Considering how irrational you'd have to be to hate an All-Loving Hero, he clearly had a point. In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, He says that being angry with your brother or sister "without a cause"note The "without a cause" part is found only in the King James Version and other translations that use the Textus Receptus for its New Testament makes you just as liable for judgment as if you murdered your brother or sister, and so you should make amends as soon as possible.
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The Four Gospels / int_560e8d61	type	Deceptive Disciple
The Four Gospels / int_560e8d61	comment	Deceptive Disciple: Judas Iscariot.
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The Four Gospels / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Four Gospels / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: John the Baptist, also a great religious innovator who himself attracted a fervent following at the time, is portrayed as the one who was preparing the way for Jesus.
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The Four Gospels / int_58833512	type	Watering Down
The Four Gospels / int_58833512	comment	Watering Down: In the gospel of John, during the wedding at Cana, they run out of wine, and Jesus has the servants fill up six twenty- to thirty-gallon jars with water, which, when they draw out some for the master of the feast to taste, becomes real wine. Amazed, he calls the groom and tells him, â€œEveryone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.â€� (John 2:10) Which meant that the standard practice was to water down the wine so the party guests wouldn't figure out what exactly they were drinking.
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The Four Gospels / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
The Four Gospels / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: Some commentators have speculated that cases of demonic possession dealt with by Jesus show symptoms we would recognize today as epilepsy or mental disorders.
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The Four Gospels / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Four Gospels / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In the gospel of Luke, it says that Herod and Pontius Pilate, who were at enmity with each other, became "friends" on the day of Jesus' sentencing and crucifixion, although it wasn't specifically Jesus they were at enmity with — both saw Jesus as rather harmless — but rather the Jewish leaders who wanted Jesus dead. They weren't above mocking Jesus, however, since He served simply as a representation of the Jewish people in general.
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The Four Gospels / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
The Four Gospels / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: The Prodigal Son in Jesus' parable not only demands his inheritance before his father has even died, he promptly blows through all the money and is reduced to serving pigs before he comes to his senses and goes back home.
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The Four Gospels / int_5d1cdda9	type	God Test
The Four Gospels / int_5d1cdda9	comment	God Test Satan tries to invoke this by suggesting Jesus prove he was the son of God by turning stones into bread. Jesus refused, saying "It is written; Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from God's mouth." Not to be put off, Satan told him to jump from the roof of the temple, saying "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." Jesus refuses again, saying "Again it is written, 'You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.'" King Herod (Antipas) tested Jesus on the day of His crucifixion to see if He would do all the miraculous things he had heard about. Jesus did nothing. When Jesus is on the cross the authorities challenge him, "If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." Played straight by Jesus and Thomas. When Thomas hears of the resurrection, he refuses to believe the story, thinking it incredible. It is not until Jesus shows Thomas his crucifixion wounds that Thomas believes. Jesus then says that it would have been better for Thomas to have believed without seeing his wounds.
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The Four Gospels / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
The Four Gospels / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: Implied in the Matthew and Mark accounts with Herodias' daughter dancing before her stepfather Herod Antipas and his associates on his birthday, making him so pleased that he would give her anything she asked for, up to half his kingdom. She takes the opportunity to ask for what her mother wanted: John the Baptist's head on a platter. Herod felt sorry that she asked for that, but nevertheless gave her what she wanted.
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The Four Gospels / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The Four Gospels / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: The Sandhedrin (high court of ancient Judea) that tries Jesus. Not only do the judges violate every single Jewish law governing trials, but they put on clearly perjured witnesses to convict him. The conduct of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who approves his death sentence (the Romans required it) also counts here, as even he acknowledges that no Roman (or Jewish) laws were broken by Jesus. Roman magistrates had the power to have non-Romans crucified at will, however, making the whole Roman "justice" system essentially this for them. Even trials of Roman citizens often went this way, as the magistrate was free to admit or ignore any evidence they pleased. Later on Paul, a Roman citizen, was given a trial, but the outcome was never in doubt. The only real privilege they had was that citizens could not be crucified. Thus in Acts, Paul is beheaded, while Peter gets crucified (upside down, as he doesn't want it to resemble Jesus' death).
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The Four Gospels / int_5ee26f31	type	Adaptation Amalgamation
The Four Gospels / int_5ee26f31	comment	Adaptation Amalgamation: The Bible including the Gospels put together would alone be considered combining information from multiple sources. In case of the Gospel of Luke, the author admits in the first verses of doing research from the various events from eyewitnesses and servants and creating an orderly account of them.
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The Four Gospels / int_5f168ae3	type	I Kiss Your Foot
The Four Gospels / int_5f168ae3	comment	I Kiss Your Foot: The sinful woman in the gospel of Luke, who pays a visit to Jesus during a supper he has with a Pharisee, cries tears on His feet, wipes them clean with her hair, kisses the feet, and anoints them with oil. Jesus uses that to explain that those who are forgiven much will love much, while those who are forgiven little will love little. Jesus Himself goes to the trouble of washing His disciples' feet in the gospel of John, showing the example of humility that they must follow.
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The Four Gospels / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Four Gospels / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The gospel of Matthew has two in the first few chapters, bringing the story from Jesus' birth to His baptism. The gospel of Luke skips from Jesus' birth to His appearance in the temple at age 12 and then skips again to His baptism.
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The Four Gospels / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
The Four Gospels / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: The gospel of Luke includes a very long list of Jesus' genealogy that reaches all the way back to Adam.
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The Four Gospels / int_616a4c	type	Give the Baby a Father
The Four Gospels / int_616a4c	comment	Give the Baby a Father: In the gospel of Matthew, when Joseph found out that his future wife Mary was pregnant with a child, he was hesitant on marrying her, suspecting her of committing fornication, and being a righteous man that didn't want to put her in public shame, decided that he was going to divorce her quietly. That was when an angel of God visited him in a dream and told him to take Mary as his wife because the child conceived in her was from the Holy Spirit, and that the child would be named Jesus, for He would deliver His people from their sins. Joseph woke up, did what the angel had commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, but didn't consummate his marriage with her until she had given birth to Jesus. Catholic interpretations state that Joseph kept Mary a virgin even after she had given birth to Jesus, although mention is made of him having at least four brothers and an unspecified number of sisters..
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The Four Gospels / int_63004c52	type	Claimed by the Supernatural
The Four Gospels / int_63004c52	comment	Claimed by the Supernatural: According to Calvinist theology, Jesus' words in the gospel of John regarding believers in Christ: "I give them eternal life. They shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them from My Fatherâ€™s hand."
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The Four Gospels / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Four Gospels / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The point of Jesus's death is to die for humanity's redemption.
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The Four Gospels / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
The Four Gospels / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: In terms of how the Gospels themselves portray him, Played Straight. He survived an attempted stoning, and when he found out about the moneychangers' tables in the temple he sat down for a good hour and braided himself a whip which he then used to chase them out. He apparently kept it with him after that because he broke it out again later to do the exact same thing. He told a storm to shut the hell up because he was trying to sleep and it listened, brought multiple people back from the dead simply by asking then nicely (and sometimes not so nicely), cured a blind man with spit and dirt, and his mere presence was enough to cast out demons and cure mental illnesses. Not to mention the fact that most victims of crucifixion are tied to the cross, Jesus was nailed. In terms of how cool people thought He was, Zig-Zagged, perhaps on account of being an Unbuilt Trope. There are many moments when people regard Jesus as totally awesome, but just as many moments when He's abandoned, misunderstood, and hated— sometimes by the very same people who thought He was so cool a few chapters before.
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The Four Gospels / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Four Gospels / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: "Jesus wept." This was in reaction to the death of his close friend, Lazarus. Peter weeps bitterly after denying Jesus three times, just as Jesus had foretold.
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The Four Gospels / int_6596a89	type	A Family Affair
The Four Gospels / int_6596a89	comment	A Family Affair: In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, Herod Antipas has John the Baptist put in prison for daring to rebuke him for his marriage to his brother's wife Herodias, saying that it was not lawful for him to have her. Herodias wanted John the Baptist killed, but Herod spared him because he liked listening to him. It was only after Herodias' daughter danced for Herod, and he made a vow to give her anything she wanted, even "up to half the kingdom", that John the Baptist was finally killed for his brave testimony.
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The Four Gospels / int_65eaeac0	type	Mass Resurrection
The Four Gospels / int_65eaeac0	comment	Mass Resurrection: In Matthew chapter 27, when Jesus died, the veil in the Temple was torn in two, the earth quaked, the rocks were split, the graves were opened, and the bodies of the saints arose and appeared unto many in Jerusalem, which caused those who witnessed these signs to exclaim, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
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The Four Gospels / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Four Gospels / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Luke, who was a doctor, notes several medical details in his accounts that the other authors glossed over, such as that the girl who Jesus brought back from the dead died of a high fever, or that Christ was sweating blood at Gethsemane. Ex-tax collector Matthew focuses on money. For instance, he was the only one to say how much Judas was paid for his betrayal.
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The Four Gospels / int_6627e429	type	Children Are a Waste
The Four Gospels / int_6627e429	comment	Children Are a Waste: In the gospel of Luke, as Jesus is going to the cross and He meets a group of women weeping for Him, He tells them, "Do not weep for Me, but rather weep for yourselves, for a time will come when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed,'" implying that there will come a time when the people of Jerusalem will meet such death that bringing a child into the world during that time would only imperil them to the same suffering as everybody else.
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The Four Gospels / int_686c9ad7	type	Only the Pure of Heart
The Four Gospels / int_686c9ad7	comment	Only the Pure of Heart: In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
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The Four Gospels / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Four Gospels / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Jesus' Hebrew name, Yeshua, means "He saves". ("Jesus" is the Latin version.) A direct translation from Hebrew to Modern English would be "Joshua". We get "Jesus" through the Greek translation of the Hebrew to 'Iesous' (pronounced roughly "yayzous"), through the Greek to Latin 'Iesus', finally to the English 'Jesus' after English writers started converting Random I's to the newfangled J's.
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The Four Gospels / int_6c019508	type	Demanding Their Head
The Four Gospels / int_6c019508	comment	Demanding Their Head: The story of The Beheading of John the Baptist. On King Herod's birthday, when Salome's dancing pleased Herod so much that he promised to give her anything she desired, she asks for the head of John the Baptist on a platter, at the behest of her mother, Herodias. Although Herod was appalled by the request, he reluctantly agreed and had John executed by beheading in the prison.
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The Four Gospels / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Four Gospels / int_6d332aea	comment	Also Judas. After he betrayed Jesus, he tried to give back the money he was paid for doing the deed, and then hanged himself.
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The Four Gospels / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
The Four Gospels / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Post resurrection, Jesus makes sudden appearances even in locked rooms, and then disappears just as suddenly.
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The Four Gospels / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
The Four Gospels / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: Mark 14:51-52 tells of a young man who witnessed the arrest of Christ. They grabbed him, but they only caught his garment and he fled naked. Some theorize that the young man was Mark himself (because he's the only one who mentions the incident in his gospel); the non-canonical Secret Gospel of Mark mentions an earlier incident paralleling the raising of Lazarus in which the resurrected young man later appears to Jesus naked except for essentially the same garment.
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The Four Gospels / int_720e0c25	type	Grave Robbing
The Four Gospels / int_720e0c25	comment	Grave Robbing: When Mary Magdalene and a few people with her saw the opened tomb and Jesus' body gone upon the third day, she thought this is what had happened until Jesus shows up in His risen form to prove otherwise. In fact, the Jewish leaders told Pontius Pilate this is what Jesus' followers would do to make people believe that He has risen from the dead, and so had the tomb sealed and a guard standing by it in order to keep that from happening. And at the end of Matthew, when the guards found the tomb empty and reported it to the priests, the priests bribed them with money to tell the governor that Jesus' disciples had robbed His body from the grave in order to get the guards off the hook for failing in their duties.
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The Four Gospels / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
The Four Gospels / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: Jesus is the only major religious figure who is explicitly defined as either a carpenter/itinerant laborer challenging the more aristocratic gods of classical religions and the more intellectual scholar-based tradition of Jewish priests. He also identified with the outcasts of society (the vagabonds, the prostitutes) and affirmed that rich people have a hard time getting to heaven and his only significant violent action was removing the money changers from the temple. His Apostles are also largely workers, especially Peter, who meets Jesus after coming back from a fishing job.
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The Four Gospels / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
The Four Gospels / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: The Devil tries to tempt Jesus into doing this, but he refuses and tells him off.
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The Four Gospels / int_753a61d4	type	Time-Travel Tense Trouble
The Four Gospels / int_753a61d4	comment	Time-Travel Tense Trouble: In the Gospel of John, Jesus claims divinity by saying, "Before Abraham was, I am!" It seems that omnipresence involves just as much verb confusion as time travel does. (Jesus is also giving a Continuity Nod to the name of God revealed to Moses in the Old Testament, "I Am that I Am.")
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The Four Gospels / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Four Gospels / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Jesus. He got quite annoyed with His disciples when they tried to stop children from "bothering" Him, explaining that little children had exemplary faith in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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The Four Gospels / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
The Four Gospels / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: The good news (or gospel, for the more titularly inclined) is that God has taken the form of Jesus Christ, who has come to tell humanity that God is willing to forgive any wrongdoing so long as one is willing to repent. During the King of Kings's ministry on Earth, he heals the sick, fights off demons, decries the hypocrites, and speaks to the outcasts of societies, from the prostitutes to the unorthodox Samaritans, all while speaking of the need to store treasure in Heaven and love all, even one's enemies. It all culminates in Christ accepting an excruciating death while begging for the forgiveness of those who executed him, only to rise from the dead three days later and proclaim that all who followed him would similarly find new life in Heaven.
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The Four Gospels / int_7788b373	type	Set the World on Fire
The Four Gospels / int_7788b373	comment	Set the World on Fire: Jesus himself says in Luke 12:49, "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Whether this is metaphorical or not is uncertain.
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The Four Gospels / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
The Four Gospels / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: The only time Jesus gets violent is when the Merchants are defiling the temple. Otherwise, he acts as a benign mentor. He also deliberately avoids using his Godly powers in any context besides making a point to his disciples, to set an example that you can follow his teachings, even if you don't have his abilities.
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The Four Gospels / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
The Four Gospels / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Zig-zagged of a sort when it comes to Jesus and His doing miracles on the Sabbath day. In pretty much everything pertaining to the Law of Moses, He was fully obedient to the Father. However, His declaration that "the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath" was what ruffled the feathers of the religious people, stating that He has the authority to do whatever He wants and set up new rules concerning the Sabbath as long as He is following the will of His Father in Heaven, since to Him "doing good is always lawful on the Sabbath."
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The Four Gospels / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
The Four Gospels / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: Jesus spent a great deal of time healing sick people, to the point that all but twelve of his miracles are related to healing.
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The Four Gospels / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
The Four Gospels / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: Jesus did this from time to time. One example comes from John chapter 9, after curing a man of his blindness: In an earlier chapter, when Jesus was talking to the Samaritan woman at the well, she said, "I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called Christ); when He comes, He will tell us all things." Jesus says to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am He."
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The Four Gospels / int_7a0c1bd6	type	Mummy Wrap
The Four Gospels / int_7a0c1bd6	comment	Mummy Wrap: In Luke chapter 2, the baby Jesus after He was born was wrapped in "swaddling clothes", which was most likely burial wrapping that travelers in the region of Israel were advised to carry in case someone in their caravan had died.
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The Four Gospels / int_7a748834	type	Right Way/Wrong Way Pair
The Four Gospels / int_7a748834	comment	Right Way/Wrong Way Pair: Many of the parables of Jesus take this form: The wise man built his house on a rock foundation; the foolish man built on the sand. The Pharisee was arrogant and Holier Than Thou in his prayers, the Tax Collector was humble and repentant and got right with God. The wise virgins kept enough oil for their lamps; the foolish virgins ran out and missed the wedding party. The rich man made himself comfortable on earth and suffered in the afterlife; poor Lazarus suffered on earth and was comforted in the afterlife. Subverted in the parable of the Prodigal Son: his foil The Dutiful Son did not make the same mistakes as his brother, but his self-righteousness and refusal to show grace demonstrate that he has his own moral problems to deal with.
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The Four Gospels / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Four Gospels / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Satan, as explained by Jesus in John 8:44.
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The Four Gospels / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
The Four Gospels / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: There's a reason this page isn't called "The One Gospel." The four different versions of the story mostly serve to complement and expand on each other, though a few points are harder to reconcile. For example, the Synoptic Gospels do not all include the same events, nor do they record them in the same sequence. Among scholars, this is known as the "Harmony of the Gospels"; you can even buy editions of The Bible that lay out the four accounts side by side for easy comparison. A well-known example is that Matthew and Luke give some of the same details about the birth of Jesus: his mother was named Mary, she was a virgin, she was married to a man named Joseph, and she gave birth to him in Bethlehem. However they each include details the other leaves out such as why Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem: Luke includes it was Nazareth resident Joseph's ancestral hometown and he had to go there to be registered in a census, Matthew is silent on this. Matthew includes the Wise Men, but not the shepherds. Luke does the opposite. Both groups visited at different times.
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The Four Gospels / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
The Four Gospels / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: Matthew 16:3 has Jesus tell the Pharisees about how a red sky in the morning means that bad weather is coming when they ask Him for a sign from heaven to prove His authority.
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The Four Gospels / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Four Gospels / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Matthew 23 was this from Jesus against the Pharisees. To list off the things from that chapter that the Pharisees did that drew Jesus' ire: They shut out people from entering into "the Kingdom of God" and refuse to enter in themselves. They devoured widows' houses and made long showy prayers. (Notably said in the gospels of Mark and Luke right before He sees an old widow tossing her last two mites into the collection box, commenting how she gave more than the others because she gave all that she had to live on — not really a commendation of her giving, but a sad lament on how she was being taken advantage of, given that Exodus 22:22 says you shall not afflict or take advantage of a widow or orphan.) They made oaths binding when sworn on the gold of the Temple instead of the Temple itself, or on the gift on the altar instead of the altar itself. They went far and wide to win converts and made them twice more fit for Hell than themselves. They focus on minor things like tithing while leaving out important things like judgment, mercy, and faith, equating them to straining out gnats only to swallow camels. They cared only about external appearances and little about cleansing themselves from within, with Jesus also comparing them to whitewashed tombs that looked beautiful on the outside while being full of dead men's bones. They honor dead prophets that their forefathers have killed, with Jesus suggesting that they're no different from their forefathers. In Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:41-46, He gives one to the goats to the left for not doing what He commands:
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The Four Gospels / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Four Gospels / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: John the Baptist's fate was beheaded by King Herod Antipas when Herodias' daughter danced before the king and pleased him to the point where he promised to offer anything she asked for, even up to half the kingdom.
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The Four Gospels / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
The Four Gospels / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The gospels themselves don't give exact dates for the life of Jesus, only that he was born during the latter days of the reign of Herod the Great (who died in 4 BC)note The oddity of Jesus being born "before Christ" is thanks to Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th century monk, who set a somewhat arbitrary date for the "Incarnation" in setting up the BC/AD dating system, without doublechecking Herod's timeline and was crucified when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea (AD 26-36).
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The Four Gospels / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
The Four Gospels / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: According to popular legend, Judas was Jesus' best friend.
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The Four Gospels / int_7f421e71	type	Mistaken for Undead
The Four Gospels / int_7f421e71	comment	Mistaken for Undead: When Jesus' disciples saw Him walking on the water in a few of the Gospels, they freaked out and thought they were seeing a ghost until Jesus tells them, "It is I! Don't be afraid!"
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The Four Gospels / int_806acfa7	type	Breaking the Bonds
The Four Gospels / int_806acfa7	comment	Breaking the Bonds: The demoniac man identified only as Legion in the gospels of Mark and Luke, whom could not be bound with chains because he would keep breaking them.
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The Four Gospels / int_810c980e	type	Serial Spouse
The Four Gospels / int_810c980e	comment	Serial Spouse: The Samaritan woman in John 4 had been married five times and was currently living with a boyfriend she wasn't married to. When Jesus knew about this without having been told, she took that as evidence He was a prophet.
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The Four Gospels / int_82af0940	type	Jacob Marley Warning
The Four Gospels / int_82af0940	comment	Jacob Marley Warning: Invoked in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. After his death, the Rich Man in hell asks Abraham to send Lazarus back with warning to his surviving brothers so they can repent and avoid his fate. Abraham subverts the trope, however, explaining that if they didn't believe Moses and the prophets, they wouldn't believe a ghostly messenger either.
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The Four Gospels / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
The Four Gospels / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals with Jesus: The Twelve apostles and the other disciples following Jesus are his friends, and they are all regular human beings like the rest of us. This is emphasized in John's gospel, where the narrator refers to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved," which puts the reader in the shoes of the disciple.
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The Four Gospels / int_83b51185	type	Heaven Seeker
The Four Gospels / int_83b51185	comment	Heaven Seeker: Numerous people talk to Jesus asking how they can attain eternal life. To the rich young ruler who asks that question, Jesus tells him to follow the commandments, and when the ruler says he obeyed them all, Jesus points out the one thing he lacks: selling all his goods and giving to the poor so that he would have treasure in heaven. This makes the rich young ruler walk away sad, for he loved his possessions, and Jesus then says it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into heaven. This makes His disciples ask, "Who then can be saved?" To which Jesus replies, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Alone with Nicodemus, Jesus says that everyone who believes in God's only begotten Son shall have eternal life.
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The Four Gospels / int_8554af5f	type	Streaking
The Four Gospels / int_8554af5f	comment	Streaking: The Ur-Example may just come from Mark, where a young man wearing a sheet drops it when a guard tries to capture him and runs away in the buff.
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The Four Gospels / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
The Four Gospels / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: Jesus is stripped of all His clothes before He is put on the cross (though in most depictions He is given a waistcloth to cover His male parts), which are then gambled off by the guards in fulfillment of Psalm 22:18: "They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots."
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The Four Gospels / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Four Gospels / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Jesus' stepfather Joseph, who appears in the first few chapters of Matthew and Luke, but is hardly heard from beyond that other than just other characters mentioning his name. In the account of the Woman Caught in Adultery, an important detail is not mentioned. In Leviticus, the Mosaic law specifically states that a couple caught in the act of adultery (in other words, actually having sex) were to be stoned. They obviously would have had to have seen the man and yet did not drag him out in front of Jesus as well. It's not known if the Pharisees were covering for him or if he escaped their clutches. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, in a meditation on the Gospel Reading he made for Life is Worth Living even surmises the man was amongst the mob that was going to stone the woman to death.
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The Four Gospels / int_8709ea16	type	Weeding Out Imperfections
The Four Gospels / int_8709ea16	comment	Weeding Out Imperfections: In the Parable of the Tares, Jesus tells a story about a man who sowed wheat seed in his field, but an enemy came in the night and planted weeds. When the man's servants learned what had happened, they offered to pull out the weeds, but the man refused as the weeds and wheat look similar and thus the servants might accidentally pull out the wheat as well. He thus orders the men to leave both types of plants to grow together, and when the harvest time comes they will separate the wheat from the weeds and take one for harvest and another to be burned. When Jesus's disciples ask for an explanation, he explains that this is a metaphor for the coexistence of good and evil people in the world and the judgment that will come at the end of time. Also telling the same moral is Jesus' parable about the drag net that gathers of every kind of fish, and the fishermen sort through the fish, saving the good fish in baskets, but throwing the bad away.
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The Four Gospels / int_8738b454	type	Signs of the End Times
The Four Gospels / int_8738b454	comment	Signs of the End Times: In His Olivet Discourse in three of the four Gospels, Jesus lays out the signs that the end is near — namely: false prophets and false Christs performing signs and wonders that would, if possible, deceive the very elect; wars and rumors of wars; earthquakes, famines, and diseases; family members as well as people claiming to know Christ hating and betraying each other. However, the one sign Jesus points out that specifically indicates that the end is near is when the "abomination of desolation" spoken of in the Book of Daniel is set up in "the holy place of God", at which point the people of Judea are to flee to the mountains and wait there for the sign of the Son of Man to appear as well as for the Son of Man to appear in the clouds with His angels.
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The Four Gospels / int_87bc9c07	type	Fire/Water Juxtaposition
The Four Gospels / int_87bc9c07	comment	Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In Matthew and Luke, John the Baptist tells his followers, "I have come baptizing with water, but there is One who comes after me who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Pentecostals tend to interpret the "baptism of fire" as having the power of the Holy Spirit to do wonders and miracles. However, with the following verse stating "the winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor, and He will gather the wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire," it seems to suggest that this is talking about the coming judgment of man.
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The Four Gospels / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
The Four Gospels / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: The Gospel of John is written in a third-person omniscient voice, but at the end, the author confirms that the unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved" was in fact the author of the Gospel; precisely whom that disciple is, is still debated to this day. The oldest views are that it was the disciple John, the brother of James.
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The Four Gospels / int_89204ffb	type	Shrug of God
The Four Gospels / int_89204ffb	comment	Shrug of God: In-Universe; Jesus warns against believing rumors that The End Is Nigh, because not even He as the Son of God knows when the end of the world is. Although certain Bible students would say that, by the time of Acts, when Jesus is ready to go back to heaven, He now knew when that time would be but refused to tell His disciples because it's all set under the authority of God the Father, and their focus was to be on the start of the Great Commission.
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The Four Gospels / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Four Gospels / int_89631688	comment	Reading between the lines, Jesus' "uncertain" (to the rest of the world) parentage seems to be a matter of gossip well into his adulthood—when he goes to his hometown claiming to be The Chosen One, his old neighbors (depending on the gospel) refer to him as "Mary's son" but not Joseph's; the Pharisees once sneer that at least they know who their father is.
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The Four Gospels / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Four Gospels / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: The Gospel of John details seven signs of Jesus's godhood, with the final, greatest, and most disturbing sign being the revival of Lazarus. By the time Jesus had been given word of his friend's illness and went to find him, he had been dead two days. Lazarus's sisters assumed even Jesus could do nothing at this point, but Jesus ordered them to open the tomb. Peering into the darkness, Jesus commanded Lazarus to come to him and out came a fully alive man in a burial shroud, the risen Lazarus.Word of this great miracle spreads and by the time Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, there are crowds eager to greet the unprecedented miracle worker. But since this great deed challenged the religious rule of the Sanhedrin, they feared that Jesus's following would give Rome reason to come and further dominate the Jews. Fearful for the future, the Sanhedrin began to plot to kill both Lazarus and Jesus to avoid reconciling with the far-reaching consequences of a man more powerful than death. Three days after Christ is publicly executed and buried in a well-guarded tomb, two women devastated by his death find the tomb empty, only for Jesus Christ to reveal himself to them fully alive, with the scars and body to prove he did die and return. When Herod Antipas heard about Jesus and His miracles, he assumed that it was John the Baptist, whom he had beheaded, come back to life and was eager to meet Him. Jairus' daughter in Mark chapter 5 dies while he goes to find Jesus to heal her. Jesus takes the father and mother into the bedroom along with Peter, James, and John and says "Talitha cumi" (which translates as "Little girl, arise"), which causes the girl to rise back to life from her bed.
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The Four Gospels / int_896f17cb	type	FauxEmpoweringEntity
The Four Gospels / int_896f17cb	comment	Faux Empowering Entity: Satan arguably fills this role as he's tempting Jesus with empty/meaningless promises in the desert.
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The Four Gospels / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Four Gospels / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The title character in the Parable of the Unrighteous Steward is a crooked accountant who, on finding out that he is due to be fired, uses creative bookkeeping to swindle his boss and get into good graces with future employers. (Alternately, it can be interpreted as the steward removing the markup on what his master's clients owed the master — the cut that the steward would get from being the middleman in the transaction — by reducing the debt to what they actually owed the master.) The Aesop is that if even a sleazeball like this guy knows how to be shrewd with money, how much more should we be wise about things with eternal value.
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The Four Gospels / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Four Gospels / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: The name "Jesus" is an Anglicized rendering of the Latin "Iesus", from the Greek "Iesous" in the oldest manuscripts, from an Aramaic original most often given as "Yeshua" (in turn a shortened form of the Hebrew "Yehoshua", i.e. "Joshua" in the Old Testament.)
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The Four Gospels / int_8a2978d1	type	Cool Key
The Four Gospels / int_8a2978d1	comment	Cool Key: Jesus in Matthew 16:19 says that He will give Peter "the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven" upon Peter's confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, that "whatever you bind on earth will be [or has already been] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be [or has already been] loosed in heaven."
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The Four Gospels / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Four Gospels / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: When Jesus chooses his twelve Apostles, he doesn't pick scholars educated in religious law to help spread his message. (Well, actually, he does, when Paul is converted, but that doesn't happen until Acts.) Instead, he picks a tax collector, a terrorist, a thief (and eventual traitor) who steals from the disciples' treasury, and a handful of fishermen.
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The Four Gospels / int_8b9d9672	type	Underdressed for the Occasion
The Four Gospels / int_8b9d9672	comment	Underdressed for the Occasion: The parable of the wedding guests in Matthew 22:1-14 has the host of the wedding gather as many people off the streets as his servants can, both good and bad, so he can fill the house with guests to replace the ones that refused and were found unworthy of attending. However, as the host of the wedding inspects the guests, he finds one who isn't wearing a wedding garment and asks how he managed to get in without one. The guest is rendered speechless. The host of the wedding then says to his servants, "Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Jesus ends the parable with "For many are called, but few are chosen."
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The Four Gospels / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
The Four Gospels / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: The last two chapter of John both end with a reminder that Jesus did much, much more than what's recorded, it's just that they only have so much space to record it all in and they need to focus on the essentials.
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The Four Gospels / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
The Four Gospels / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: The lame excuses offered by the invitees to the Great Banquet. Apparently, one bought land without seeing it, and another bought oxen without trying them out.
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The Four Gospels / int_8cb4b589	type	Symbolic Baptism
The Four Gospels / int_8cb4b589	comment	Symbolic Baptism: After being baptized in water and in the Holy Spirit, Jesus in Luke 12:50 speaks of yet another baptism He has to undergo, and that He is distressed until it is accomplished.
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The Four Gospels / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
The Four Gospels / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Jesus is depicting discussing the Torah with much older and better learned men to their astonishment when he's only a preteen.
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The Four Gospels / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Four Gospels / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Jesus challenges this thinking in Luke 13:1-5:
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The Four Gospels / int_8f755a70	type	DescendFromAHigherPlaneOfExistence
The Four Gospels / int_8f755a70	comment	Descend From A Higher Plane Of Existence: Jesus came down from Heaven to become mortal.
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The Four Gospels / int_8fe7f493	type	Ancestral Name
The Four Gospels / int_8fe7f493	comment	Ancestral Name: Discussed during the birth of John the Baptist recorded in Luke, where Elizabeth's neighbors and relatives initially assumed that the baby is going to be named Zechariah after his father. When his parents insist that the baby's name is John (because the angel that heralded his birth instructed them to name him so), the others were surprised because none of their relatives are named John.
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The Four Gospels / int_8ffcbb25	type	Matter Replicator
The Four Gospels / int_8ffcbb25	comment	Matter Replicator: Jesus, who not only multiples loaves and fishes from a boy's lunch to feed a multitude of people, but also changes the chemical composition of water into wine to satisfy the people at a wedding in Cana of Galilee.
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The Four Gospels / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
The Four Gospels / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Jesus encounters several possessed people and successfully exorcises the demons every time. This occurs frequently enough that it's lumped together with all the other diseases and mental disorders Jesus cures. One notable example: the truly unfortunate man possessed by one thousand demons that called themselves "Legion". Jesus, being well, Jesus, cured the man and spared the demons when they begged for mercy, who he then let flee into a herd of pigs. Which then ran off a cliff in terror. Jesus Himself speaks the parable about a person who has had a demon exorcised out of him that goes out into dry places to look for rest, and finding none goes back to the person it once inhabited, only to find that person's place swept clean and put in order, so the demon goes and gets seven more even worse demons to come in, and the state of that man is worse than before.
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The Four Gospels / int_91a2039b	type	I Am the Noun
The Four Gospels / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: Jesus uses this statement repeatedly throughout the gospel of John. "I am the resurrection and the life," "I am the true vine," "I am the bread from heaven," "I am the way, and the truth, and the life..."
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The Four Gospels / int_91db89a0	type	The Three Wise Men
The Four Gospels / int_91db89a0	comment	The Three Wise Men: They make their first appearance here, though Matthew doesn't specify that there were three exactly (that's a later tradition due to them bringing three gifts).
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The Four Gospels / int_921932c7	type	Activist-Fundamentalist Antics
The Four Gospels / int_921932c7	comment	They went far and wide to win converts and made them twice more fit for Hell than themselves.
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The Four Gospels / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Four Gospels / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: What Jesus warned His disciples against encountering in three of the four Gospels.
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The Four Gospels / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
The Four Gospels / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, was unable to speak for a time because he did not believe the angel Gabriel when he said that he would have a son.
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The Four Gospels / int_9397e726	type	Passion Play
The Four Gospels / int_9397e726	comment	Passion Play: Ur-Example, as the Gospels are the source for future tellings of the Passion of Christ. Each of the four Gospels gives an account of how Christ was betrayed by Judas, arrested by the Romans, tried by Pontius Pilate, sent to carry his cross to Golgotha, and crucified until he died alongside two thieves.
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The Four Gospels / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
The Four Gospels / int_941896b	comment	The story of the woman caught in adultery follows this to the letter. Jesus is asked to choose between imposing the death penalty by stoning for adultery (which would challenge the laws of the Roman empire at the time) or showing mercy (which would violate the letter of the Law of Moses). Instead, Jesus replied, "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone!" This shames the mob and they leave defeated.
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The Four Gospels / int_9421aa41	type	Flipping the Table
The Four Gospels / int_9421aa41	comment	Flipping the Table: Jesus does this with the moneychangers in the Temple.
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The Four Gospels / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Four Gospels / int_950bbfa7	comment	On another occasion, Jesus is presented with the chance to heal a man on the Sabbath, which they believed would violate the Laws of Moses.note These laws forbid any kind of work on the Sabbath. Jesus countered, "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath!" and proceeds to heal the man right in front of them. They don't take this very well at all. In modern times, Judaism also accepts this idea, saying no law takes precedence over human life.
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The Four Gospels / int_95cbcd5b	type	The Omnipotent
The Four Gospels / int_95cbcd5b	comment	The Omnipotent: Each of the synoptic Gospels makes note of the fact that for God, "all things are possible." Mark 10 and Matthew 19 have Jesus's followers ask if getting to Heaven is truly as easy as fitting a camel through a needle, than how can anyone be saved? Jesus admits that it is impossible for humans to be saved, but that for God it is as possible as anything. In Luke 1, the Archangel Gabriel explains the Virgin Mary's pregnancy by saying "nothing will be impossible for God."
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The Four Gospels / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Four Gospels / int_970c790a	comment	Satan, being the Big Bad of the Bible, is obviously this. But the only times he himself is a direct threat is when he attempts to trick Jesus thrice in the wilderness.
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The Four Gospels / int_9834561e	type	Inspiring Sermon
The Four Gospels / int_9834561e	comment	Inspiring Sermon: The Sermon on the Mount as delivered by Jesus Himself is the Ur-Example and Trope Codifier, well known even outside of Christian circles.
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The Four Gospels / int_984cbd13	type	Absurdly Elderly Mother
The Four Gospels / int_984cbd13	comment	Absurdly Elderly Mother: In the Gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel tells the priest Zechariah that his wife Elizabeth is going to have a child. Even though the couple had prayed for a child for many years, Zechariah finds this unbelievable, since they are both old, to which Gabriel renders him mute until the child, whom they named John, is born.
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The Four Gospels / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
The Four Gospels / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: The Jews at the time of Jesus' first coming were looking for a leader that would liberate them from the Romans who had occupied their territory, and thought that Jesus would be that liberator when He made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem riding lowly on a donkey. (In fact, one of Jesus' apostles was Simon the Zealot, who wanted to get the Romans out.) Little did most of them know that Jesus didn't come for that purpose, but rather to die for the sins of the world and to liberate people from their sin. The only people who were for Roman rule of the Judean region were the chief priests, who saw Jesus as a threat to their power and feared that they would lose their position as well as their nation if all the Jews came to Jesus, and so decided that the only way they could save their nation was to have Jesus put to death, as recorded in the gospel of John.
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The Four Gospels / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
The Four Gospels / int_99e14f05	comment	Jesus claims this is true of his enemies' hatred for him. Considering how irrational you'd have to be to hate an All-Loving Hero, he clearly had a point.
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The Four Gospels / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
The Four Gospels / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Normally Middle Eastern fishermen of that time and era would strip themselves of their clothes when they are swimming in the water helping to gather fish. In John chapter 21, though, when Simon Peter and his friends go out fishing and later find Jesus at the shore telling them to cast their nets, and they end up catching a ton of fish, Peter puts his clothes back on before he dives into the water and swims to the shore to greet Jesus.
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The Four Gospels / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Four Gospels / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Satan, being the Big Bad of the Bible, is obviously this. But the only times he himself is a direct threat is when he attempts to trick Jesus thrice in the wilderness. The Roman Empire is this for the more worldly aspects of the narrative—not specifically Pilate or Tiberius as the former is arguably Just Following Orders ajd the latter largely wasn't bothered about running the Empire—in which Jews of Galilee and Judea constantly petition Jesus on how to reconcile their identities as Jews and Roman subjects right down to whose coins to use in which places. Outside of the Jews and their Syrophoneician neighbours, even Romans approach Jesus for advice and healing, and Jesus' death sentence is the result of his messianic prophecies being interpreted as sedition against Roman authority.note The Trope Namer for I Am Legion literally being named Legion as well as its possession of a herd of swine, ergo unclean meat, is widely considered to be an anti-Roman polemic.
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The Four Gospels / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
The Four Gospels / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: The Gospel of John is the most philosophical of the four gospels and involves some deep stuff, right from its first few opening lines.
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The Four Gospels / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Four Gospels / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: Jesus hints at this when He tells the people of Capernaum, "If the mighty works that were done in you were done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the people of Sodom in the Day of Judgment than for you." (Matthew 11:23-24)
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The Four Gospels / int_9d5a2cdf	type	Intimidating Revenue Service
The Four Gospels / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	The attitude above under Intimidating Revenue Service sets up the following plum bit of narration in Luke 7:29: "When all the people and the tax collectors heard this..."
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The Four Gospels / int_9dc46ce8	type	Otherworldly Communication Failure
The Four Gospels / int_9dc46ce8	comment	Otherworldly Communication Failure: Defied in the Gospel of Luke. An angel appears to a group of shepherds, scaring the hell out of them. As a consequence, the first words out of the angel's mouth are "Fear not!"
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The Four Gospels / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Four Gospels / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: One of Judas' character flaws, brought up when he is among one of the disciples to complain when Mary the sister of Martha anoints Jesus, saying that the perfume could've been sold and the proceeds used to feed the poor... Jesus also used the Parable of the Shrewd Manager (in which an unethical housekeeper fired from his job for his dishonesty uses his own commission to pay off his soon-to-be-former master's debtors in order to have friends once he's unemployed) to illustrate that if godless heathens are willing to go to such lengths for temporary gains, then the disciples should be all the more wise when it comes to eternal glory.
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The Four Gospels / int_9e776765	type	Churchgoing Villain
The Four Gospels / int_9e776765	comment	Churchgoing Villain: Jesus frequently lambasted people (especially the Pharisees, who He believed should have known better) for acting religious while living life only to attain more wealth and power at the expense of others.
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The Four Gospels / int_9ebee577	type	Anaphora
The Four Gospels / int_9ebee577	comment	Anaphora: Jesus delivers one on his Beatitudes:
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The Four Gospels / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
The Four Gospels / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: In the parable of the "sheep and goats" in Matthew chapter 25, Jesus says the King will judge the "goats" for their doing nothing good for "the least of My brethren", saying that what the "goats" didn't do for them, they also didn't do for the King.
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The Four Gospels / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Four Gospels / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Jesus says in his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:21-23 that many will come to Him on the Last Day and say, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?" But then He will say to them, "I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil." The message given to Jesus by the people in the region where He commanded demons that were tormenting a man to enter a herd of swine, after they found out what had happened. Some Pharisees in Luke 13:31 warned Jesus to get out because King Herod wanted to kill Him.
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The Four Gospels / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Four Gospels / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Jesus insists to the Apostles that witness him transfigurate into a heavenly form, flanked by Moses and Elijah, that they speak to no one about it until after Christ has risen from the dead.
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The Four Gospels / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Four Gospels / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Peter, quite literally, after he denied he knew Jesus three times, and heard the rooster crow. Also Judas. After he betrayed Jesus, he tried to give back the money he was paid for doing the deed, and then hanged himself.
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The Four Gospels / int_a1bc812	type	Smash the Symbol
The Four Gospels / int_a1bc812	comment	Smash the Symbol: Jesus tells His disciples that both Jerusalem and the Jewish temple will be destroyed. At His trial before the Jewish leaders, some of His accusers claim that He said that He will destroy the temple and build a new one without hands in three days.
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The Four Gospels / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Four Gospels / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: The Wise Men are often seen to be Zoroastrian priests; the Greek word magoi derives from the old Persian and Avestan terms for the Zoroastrian priestly caste, and frankincense is a common element in Zoroastrian temple fires and home rituals, as is myrrh to lesser extent. The idea that they'd travel a long way to honor a Jewish baby as a future king is a big stretch. Accounts in The Talmud suggest that Zoroastrians and Jews didn't get along very well, often clashing over their vastly different purity rituals, and the only lore in the religion about a savior of humanity is connected with the end of time and the final battle between good and evil, and almost certainly they wouldn't have been expecting this figure to be someone from outside their religion. On the other hand, since the Persian empire had a Jewish influence as seen in the book of Daniel, the prophecies in that book would have informed the actions of the Magi. Matthew, Mark and Luke have Passover beginning on Thursday night, with the Last Supper as a seder Jesus celebrated with his followers the night before he was crucified on Friday afternoon. The issue with this is that, according to the rules of the Hebrew calendar, Passover can't start on a Thursday night (though the rules governing that weren't completely codified until The Middle Ages).ExplanationIt's convoluted, but basically, the calendar is structured so that the major holidays can only fall on a specific set of four days of the week, and Passover can only start at sundown on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. But since the Jewish day started in the evening,not the morning, the days can get confused. John avoids this by explicitly placing the start of Passover on Friday night, after the Crucifixion. It's been argued that the other three gospels are actually compatible with a Friday Passover too, it's just that Jesus decided to celebrate one day early since he wouldn't be around for the real holiday.
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The Four Gospels / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Four Gospels / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Jesus, and possibly others we forget. Some people think that Jesus was married mostly because it would've been extremely unusual for a Jewish man his age not to be married, but that His wife was not mentioned in the Bible (there are also a lot of speculations about why this is)note This is such a popular notion that someone bothered to make an elaborate manuscript forgery which literally just reads "Jesus said to them, 'my wife...'". Other people see this idea as heresy. Also, throughout New Testament Scripture, Jesus is spoken of as being the Bridegroom waiting to be united with His bride, which most, if not all Christians interpret as being the church. Jesus referenced them when he spoke of the indissolubility of marriage. He said that there are eunuchs by choice who seek the kingdom of heaven and he who can apply this should. In His response to the Sadducees about whose wife would a woman be of the seven brothers that married her and left her with no offspring at the resurrection, Jesus implies that all who are resurrected from the dead will be celibate, for "they shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, but shall be like the angels in heaven."
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The Four Gospels / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Four Gospels / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In all four Gospels, the bodies of the crucified were taken off the crosses prior to the Sabbath, and Jesus' body was wrapped in a shroud and coated with a hundred pounds of aloe to form a hardening solution, and then was placed in an empty tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea in a nearby garden, fulfilling Isaiah 53:9 which says that He was buried "with the rich at His death." In the Gospel of Luke, the women prepared spices to anoint Jesus' body with, rested on the Sabbath, then came to the tomb on the following day to discover that Jesus' body was no longer in the tomb and that He had risen from the dead.
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The Four Gospels / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Four Gospels / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Peter's denials, and in the book of John, Jesus asking Peter if he loved Him. Though in the Greek, Jesus asked Peter two times if he agaped Him (loved Him with a godly love) and Peter answers that he phileod Him (loved Him as a brother), and it's on the third time that Jesus changes the question to "Simon, son of Jonah, do you phileo me?" — a distinction that most English translations of the Gospel of John miss.
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The Four Gospels / int_a73cfb7f	type	Animate Inanimate Object
The Four Gospels / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: In the Gospel of Luke, when Jesus makes His triumphal entry, and the priests tell Jesus to make His disciples stop praising Him by silencing them, Jesus says that "if these were to remain silent, then the rocks would immediately cry out."
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The Four Gospels / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Four Gospels / int_a7850fbf	comment	Among Jesus' disciples, there were two men named Jacob, two named Judas, and two named Simon (one had to be nicknamed "Peter"). On one occasion, John has to introduce dialogue by saying, "Judas, not Iscariot, said..." "Judas who is not called Iscariot" is now known as St. Jude, patron of lost causes, because so few people would pray to him on account of the similarity. What makes even less sense is that he was only called Judas in Luke and John, while Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. Why he's called St. Jude instead of St. Thaddeus, making Jesus' brother the only "Jude" (which would be far less confusing), is still a mystery. Some countries make a compromise by referring to him, in full, as "Judas Thaddeus".
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The Four Gospels / int_a7f99c1f	type	Two First Names
The Four Gospels / int_a7f99c1f	comment	Two First Names: John Mark and Simon Peter. Although Simon Peter was originally Simon bar-Jonah (or Simon son-of-Jonah). Jesus later gave him the name Peter, which means "rock". He then went by Simon Peter before just sticking with Peter.
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The Four Gospels / int_a849183f	type	Toilet Seat Divorce
The Four Gospels / int_a849183f	comment	Toilet Seat Divorce: In Matthew chapter 19, the Pharisees question Jesus if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason (which in their minds mean for any trivial thing a wife would do that might displease a husband, such as poor cooking). Jesus takes them back to Genesis to remind them that "what God has yoked together" as "one flesh", a man should not separate, and it was through the hardness of their hearts that Moses gave them the precept for writing a certificate of divorce. He goes on to say, as He had said earlier in His Sermon on the Mount, that a man who divorces his wife for any reason except for marital infidelity only to marry another woman commits adultery, and that a man who marries a divorced wife commits adultery.
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The Four Gospels / int_a855802d	type	Crippling Castration
The Four Gospels / int_a855802d	comment	Crippling Castration: Jesus in Matthew chapter 19 in talking about divorce with the Pharisees and scribes says that there are men who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, which is how serious He believes men should take purity in sexual matters, whether married or single. (Although because the Law of Moses, which in it states that a man with crushed or torn testicles cannot serve in the Temple of God, was still in effect at the time, whether Jesus meant it as literal or metaphorical self-castration is not known.)
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The Four Gospels / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
The Four Gospels / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: The Rules Lawyer Pharisees frequently try to entrap Jesus with this dilemma. Jesus rebuts them by arguing that to do good is to follow what the Law intends. The story of the woman caught in adultery follows this to the letter. Jesus is asked to choose between imposing the death penalty by stoning for adultery (which would challenge the laws of the Roman empire at the time) or showing mercy (which would violate the letter of the Law of Moses). Instead, Jesus replied, "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone!" This shames the mob and they leave defeated. On another occasion, Jesus is presented with the chance to heal a man on the Sabbath, which they believed would violate the Laws of Moses.note These laws forbid any kind of work on the Sabbath. Jesus countered, "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath!" and proceeds to heal the man right in front of them. They don't take this very well at all. In modern times, Judaism also accepts this idea, saying no law takes precedence over human life. Mainstream Christianity's interpretation of The Bible as a whole can be summed up as humanity giving God such a choice by allowing evil into their hearts: the lawful option is to Kill All Humans, but that's against God's loving nature. The good option is to simply forgive them, but that's against God's just nature. God's solution? Become human, absorb the punishment for their evil into Himself, and then forgive humans, justice and love both fulfilled.
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The Four Gospels / int_aa4e6f59	type	Sin Invites Possession
The Four Gospels / int_aa4e6f59	comment	Sin Invites Possession: Matthew 12:43-45 suggests that a demon, once expelled, may return to the person it possessed: Theologians and Christian thinkers have extrapolated from this that being the mere passive recipient of an exorcism is not enough: the subject needs, metaphorically, to install better locks on doors and windows and an adequate burglar alarm system (i.e. to accept the Christian message and actively reform their life so as to prevent re-occupation by demonic forces).
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The Four Gospels / int_aa819622	type	Let's Wait Awhile
The Four Gospels / int_aa819622	comment	Let's Wait Awhile: In the gospel of Matthew, Joseph and Mary hold off on consummating the marriage with each other until after Jesus was born. In Catholic interpretations, though, Joseph keeps Mary a virgin even after the birth.
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The Four Gospels / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
The Four Gospels / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: In three of the Gospels, when the Pharisees claim that Jesus' exorcism miracles are done by "the power of Beelzebul", Jesus responds by saying, "How can Satan cast out Satan?", and that if it's possible for Satan's power to cast out one of his own evil powers, then his kingdom cannot stand.
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The Four Gospels / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
The Four Gospels / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Jesus's Sermon on the Mount is an 84 line speech in Matthew that touches on most if not all of his major teachings. He starts by listing off the various oppressed and needy people who are blessed, then teaches on topics ranging from from how the angry and lustful are as damned as the murderous and adulterous and divorce is impermissible to the need to love enemies unconditionally and not turn righteousness into a public display. He concludes by saying that those that wish to live should listen and act upon his words, while those that do not act in accordance with Him will find only death and desolation. Luke's Gospel includes a much shorter version of the Sermon titled the Sermon on the Plain. It boils down to the blessings of the downtrodden, the call to love enemies, the order on proper judgement, and the warning to act on Christ's words. And there's Matthew's rendering of the Olivet Discourse in Chapter 24, which then leads to His three parables about the end times in Chapter 25. And there's Jesus' final words to His disciples in John chapters 14 to 16, although these are broken up with some questions and comments from the disciples.
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The Four Gospels / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
The Four Gospels / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: In John 12, a voice speaks from heaven, and many people in the crowd think it's just thunder.
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The Four Gospels / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Four Gospels / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Jesus delivers one of the most devastating and memorable comebacks in history in John's gospel, when asked whether the woman accused of adultery should be stoned. "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone," causing every single man and woman in the crowd to drop their stones and walk away in silence.
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The Four Gospels / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Four Gospels / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: John's gospel says that Satan entered into Judas to make him betray Jesus, leading to Jesus' death — which directly brought about the forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection, and the founding of the Christian faith.
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The Four Gospels / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Four Gospels / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Jesus asks the question in Matthew 16:26, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Judas Iscariot may have gotten a "tidy sum" of thirty pieces of silver for betraying Jesus, but according to Matthew, he was so overcome with guilt that he hanged himself. Apparently waiting to receive the inheritance that God promised to those who believe in Him through His Son, plus the honor his fellow apostles would have of sitting on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel, was not enough to persuade Judas from settling for a mere pittance of earthly treasure.
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The Four Gospels / int_ae1c0901	type	The Blind Leading the Blind
The Four Gospels / int_ae1c0901	comment	The Blind Leading the Blind: The Trope Namer, which comes from Matthew 15:13-14, which He applies to the religious leaders of His day misleading others.
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The Four Gospels / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
The Four Gospels / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: This is implied to be a part of The Shrewd Manager's plan on one of Jesus' parables: he knew he was about to get fired and that he wasn't physically strong enough to support himself with manual labor, so with highly limited options for his continued survival, he very visibly cooked his employer's books to get on the good side of his employer's debtors. He expected to be welcomed into the debtors' homes so he could live on as a house-to-house moocher after he was fired, likely because they'd (incorrectly) think that he lost his job because he was generous to them.
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The Four Gospels / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Four Gospels / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Hell. When the collective of demons who self-identify as Legion are about to be exorcised, they break down and beg Jesus to send them anywhere but Hell.
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The Four Gospels / int_b20fdfc8	type	Ur-Example
The Four Gospels / int_b20fdfc8	comment	First appeared as the counterpart to the title character in Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus makes the point that he's not really morally superior to his wayward brother because his dutifulness is not out of love for his father.
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The Four Gospels / int_b4068912	type	Star of Bethlehem
The Four Gospels / int_b4068912	comment	Star of Bethlehem: Matthew provides the Ur-Example. The Wise Men were following the Star from the East in order to find the prophesied Messiah until it rested over the house where Joseph and Mary were staying with the child Jesus, who at that time was probably two years old.
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The Four Gospels / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Four Gospels / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: In Jesus' parable of the rich foolish farmer in the Gospel of Luke, in which the farmer who has a bountiful crop thinks he has all the time in the world to enjoy what he has, only to be told by God, "You fool, tonight your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided for yourself?"
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The Four Gospels / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Four Gospels / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Jesus says in the gospels of Matthew and Luke that if parents who are "evil" know how to give good gifts to their children — saying that such a parent won't give their child a stone if they ask for bread, or a snake if they ask for a fish, or a scorpion if they ask for an egg — how much more will God the Father, who is always good, give good gifts, including the Holy Spirit, to those who ask Him.
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The Four Gospels / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
The Four Gospels / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: On top of the already-grisly spectacle that is a public crucifixion, Pontius Pilate orders a sign put up above Jesus head on the cross reading Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews).note And that's where that INRI thing comes from in paintings. The Jewish leaders take offense at this, interpreting it as Pilate claiming authority to execute any Jewish king, and demand he tone it down to "He claimed to be King of the Jews"—Pilate flatly refuses, telling them "What I have written, I have written."
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The Four Gospels / int_b504613c	type	Don't Look Back
The Four Gospels / int_b504613c	comment	Don't Look Back: In the gospel of Luke, Jesus says that those who put their hand to the plow, and then look back, are not fit for the Kingdom of God.
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The Four Gospels / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Four Gospels / int_b53077b3	comment	The Parable of the Good Samaritan usually ended with a Jewish layman as the third person, both as a Take That! against the clergy of the day and to encourage everyday people to engage in random acts of kindness; that the third man was a Samaritan (whom the Jews hated for being of mixed lineage and having impure worship practices) was unthinkable.
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The Four Gospels / int_b6a754a5	type	Caught Up in the Rapture
The Four Gospels / int_b6a754a5	comment	Caught Up in the Rapture: Matthew 24:31 is interpreted by Bible students who believe in the post-Tribulation Rapture that this will be when the event happens, and that angels will gather all God's elect to Him from all corners of the earth. Matthew 24:40-41 and Luke 17:34-26 are also interpreted as what will happen when the Rapture happens, although in the latter verses' case, with Jesus saying afterward, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather together," they seem to suggest people being removed unto a coming judgment. The parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25:1-13 is interpreted note by those who hold to a dispensational view as one for the Rapture, as only the wise virgins who brought oil with their lamps are the saints who are allowed entry into the Lord's wedding feast in heaven.
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The Four Gospels / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
The Four Gospels / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: A major concept in Jesus' teachings. Also part of his own Dying Moment of Awesome, when he prayed "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do."
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The Four Gospels / int_ba0d9b95	type	Doves Mean Peace
The Four Gospels / int_ba0d9b95	comment	Doves Mean Peace: The Holy Spirit chooses to manifest as a dove during Jesus' christening.
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The Four Gospels / int_bab88bf0	type	Sweet Sheep
The Four Gospels / int_bab88bf0	comment	In Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:41-46, He gives one to the goats to the left for not doing what He commands:
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The Four Gospels / int_bbda4d83	type	Away in a Manger
The Four Gospels / int_bbda4d83	comment	Away in a Manger: In the Gospel according to Luke, Mary unexpectedly gives birth in a stable. The Nativity story is the Trope Maker.
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The Four Gospels / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Four Gospels / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: As a warning, Jesus in Matthew 18:10-11 tells His disciples, "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost."
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The Four Gospels / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Four Gospels / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted in the parable of the Prodigal Son: his foil The Dutiful Son did not make the same mistakes as his brother, but his self-righteousness and refusal to show grace demonstrate that he has his own moral problems to deal with.
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The Four Gospels / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
The Four Gospels / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: In the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, when Jesus was baptized in the Jordan, the heavens opened, the Spirit came upon Him like a dove, and a Voice from Heaven said, "This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased." And also, "You are My beloved Son; with You I am well pleased." Later on at the Mount of Transfiguration, when Peter, James, and John see Jesus in His glorified form with Moses and Elijah, the same Voice said, "This is My Son, with whom I am pleased. Listen to Him!" In the gospel of Matthew, in the Parable of the Talents, when two of the three servants who were given talents by their master came back and reported that they made double of what they were given, their master said, "Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful in a few things, you shall be ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord." This is contrasted with the third servant who was given only one talent, but didn't do anything with it except bury it and then return it to his master, to whom his master says, "You wicked and slothful servant, why didn't you leave it with the bankers so that I could have received back my own with interest?"
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The Four Gospels / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Four Gospels / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: When some people decided to turn God's temple into a marketplace (twice), Jesus was not amused.
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The Four Gospels / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Four Gospels / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: In Luke 17, Jesus suggests a fate like this is preferable than what's coming to those who knowingly cause others to sin, or who cause harm to a child.
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The Four Gospels / int_bd0415e2	type	Healing Spring
The Four Gospels / int_bd0415e2	comment	Healing Spring: The pool of Bethesda in John chapter 5, as explained in the King James Version and other similar translations made from the Textus Receptus:
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The Four Gospels / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Four Gospels / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The Gospels of Mark and Luke end with Jesus ascending to Heaven.
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The Four Gospels / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
The Four Gospels / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: Literally the Ur-Example, since the disciples are mostly portrayed as manly types with jobs like being fishermen.
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The Four Gospels / int_bdd027c5	type	Den of Iniquity
The Four Gospels / int_bdd027c5	comment	Den of Iniquity: Jesus' denunciation of the Jewish leaders' treatment of the Temple by turning it into a market, quoting a term from the book of Jeremiah.
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The Four Gospels / int_bf9c6b5e	type	Faithâ€“Heel Turn
The Four Gospels / int_bf9c6b5e	comment	Faithâ€“Heel Turn: There were a group of disciples in John chapter 6 who decided to turn away from Jesus after hearing the rather hard-to-hear speech about "eating the flesh" and "drinking the blood" of the Son Of Man.
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The Four Gospels / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
The Four Gospels / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: Jesus tells His disciples in three of the four gospels to forsake all they have and follow Him. "For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36-37, Luke 9:25) In other words, there's nothing a man can give of all his worldly goods to God that can save his eternal soul from death.
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The Four Gospels / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Four Gospels / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: The Romans mock Jesus heavily while torturing him before finally killing him, asking him if he's really the King of the Jews. They blindfold him and beat him, demanding he prophesy which of them was the one who hit him.
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The Four Gospels / int_c0e07e0	type	Archangel Gabriel
The Four Gospels / int_c0e07e0	comment	In Luke 1, the Archangel Gabriel explains the Virgin Mary's pregnancy by saying "nothing will be impossible for God."
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The Four Gospels / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
The Four Gospels / int_c132c0c5	comment	The dutiful son in the parable of the prodigal son also has a pride issue. He sees their father receive the prodigal son back into the fold by giving him a party with the fattened calf slaughtered, and he gets upset with the father, saying to the effect that he should have been rewarded in like fashion for obeying all his father's commands and not wasting his inheritance on prostitutes, going so far as to not even acknowledge his own brother in the process. The father says, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found."
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The Four Gospels / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Four Gospels / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Jesus deals with the issue of pride by saying "he who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted." As an example, He tells the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, who were both praying to God. The Pharisee proudly declares his "righteousness" before God in his prayer, even denouncing the tax collector who was right next to him, while the tax collector humbly beats his chest and says, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner"...and Jesus says that the tax collector went home justified before God rather than the Pharisee. The dutiful son in the parable of the prodigal son also has a pride issue. He sees their father receive the prodigal son back into the fold by giving him a party with the fattened calf slaughtered, and he gets upset with the father, saying to the effect that he should have been rewarded in like fashion for obeying all his father's commands and not wasting his inheritance on prostitutes, going so far as to not even acknowledge his own brother in the process. The father says, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found." Martha the sister of Mary also has a bit of a pride issue. When she invites Jesus into her home in the gospel of Luke, her sister Mary spends her time sitting at Jesus' feet listening to Him while Martha is distracted with getting things ready for a supper she was putting on for Him. Annoyed at her sister not doing anything to help while she was doing all the busywork, Martha bids the Lord to tell Mary to help her. The Lord tells her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her." The apostles themselves were dealing with pride as they were wondering who among them would be considered the greatest. Jesus tells them "Whoever would be great among you, let him serve you, and whoever would be first among you, let him be your slave, even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many." (Matthew 20:26-28) As an act of showing humility, Jesus even washed the feet of His disciples, telling them if that is what He has done for them, blessed are they if they do the same for others. Peter himself had to deal with pride rearing its ugly head on a few occasions. In Matthew chapter 16, he gets an ego boost when he declares to Jesus, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God," and Jesus at that point gives him "the keys to the kingdom of heaven", then just shortly thereafter when Jesus says that He has to go to the cross and suffer and die, and Peter attempts to rebuke Him, Jesus says, "Get behind Me, Satan, for you do not savor the things of God, but the things of men." Later on, when Jesus predicts that His disciples will scatter from Him upon His arrest, and Peter boldly declares that he won't be like the others, Jesus says, "Tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times," and Peter again asserts his steadfastness. However, when Jesus' Words prove to be true, Peter was crushed in his inner being, and it was only after Jesus asked Peter three times "Do you love Me?" after His resurrection that Peter was restored.
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The Four Gospels / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Four Gospels / int_c3bafbce	comment	Jesus quotes the Torah in the desert to justify rejecting Satan. The Devil himself tries to use Psalm 91:11-12 to convince Jesus to put God to the test, but Jesus counters his reference with the command of Deuteronomy 6:16.
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The Four Gospels / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Four Gospels / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Pilate tries to have Jesus released, but the mob insists on his crucifixion. Although Pilate was a jerk, depending on who you talk to. In other branches,note most prominently the Ethiopian Church, he's a saint. Literally.
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The Four Gospels / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
The Four Gospels / int_c3db1619	comment	In terms of how cool people thought He was, Zig-Zagged, perhaps on account of being an Unbuilt Trope. There are many moments when people regard Jesus as totally awesome, but just as many moments when He's abandoned, misunderstood, and hated— sometimes by the very same people who thought He was so cool a few chapters before.
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The Four Gospels / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Four Gospels / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Occurs quite famously in both Matthew and Luke, where Satan tempts Jesus with control over the entire Earth. Jesus' choice is fairly obvious. This has interesting theological implications: Jesus rejects the offer, but never implies that Satan couldn't deliver. Therefore, Satan apparently has some degree of authority over the kingdoms of Earth. In fact, John 12:31 describes Satan as the "ruler of this world."
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The Four Gospels / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Four Gospels / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-universe. Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:29, and Luke 12:10 mentions the "unforgivable sin" of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
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The Four Gospels / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The Four Gospels / int_c59cfa2e	comment	They focus on minor things like tithing while leaving out important things like judgment, mercy, and faith, equating them to straining out gnats only to swallow camels.
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The Four Gospels / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Four Gospels / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: John 20:30. 'Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.'
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The Four Gospels / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The Four Gospels / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The Pharisees often made such charges against Jesus, like, "He casts out demons by the prince of demons." Jesus points out the obvious contradiction of the accusation.
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The Four Gospels / int_c6cde986	type	Friendship Denial
The Four Gospels / int_c6cde986	comment	Peter, quite literally, after he denied he knew Jesus three times, and heard the rooster crow.
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The Four Gospels / int_c6d07520	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Four Gospels / int_c6d07520	comment	In Matthew, Jesus goes back to Nazareth, where he grew up. His frigid reception causes him to lampshade this trope. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor." Things don't go so well, because, honestly, how seriously would you take your old neighbor if he suddenly showed up after years of living out of town, going on about how he's the son of God and the new age is at hand?
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The Four Gospels / int_c8c3f855	type	Fly in the Soup
The Four Gospels / int_c8c3f855	comment	Fly in the Soup: Jesus during His rant against the Pharisees and scribes in Matthew chapter 23 tells them, "You strain out a gnat, yet you swallow a camel!" — which was how they prefer to enjoy their drinks, pouring them through a cloth in order to strain out insects that would make their beverage "unclean" to drink. However, the point Jesus was making with that statement is that the Pharisees were majoring in the minor things of the Law of God while not also doing the major things in the same Law.
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The Four Gospels / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
The Four Gospels / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: A variation of this trope is found in the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew chapter 25, which is used as an allegory for waiting for the Lord's Second Coming. In the parable, all ten virgins were waiting to be brought into the Bridegroom's wedding feast; five were wise, and brought oil with their lamps, and five were foolish, bringing no oil with their lamps. While the Bridegroom tarried, they all got drowsy and fell asleep, but in the middle of the night, when they heard, "Behold! The Bridegroom is coming!", they all trimmed their lamps, but the foolish virgins found that their lamps were going out and asked the wise virgins to lend them their oil. The wise virgins tell the foolish ones that there may not be enough for all ten of them if they did that, but that the foolish should go and buy oil for themselves. But while the foolish virgins went to buy oil, the Bridegroom came, took the wise virgins into the wedding feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the foolish virgins came and said, "Lord, Lord, let us in," and He said, "I tell you the truth, I do not know you." Jesus ends the parable by telling His followers to be watchful, for they do not know the day or hour of His coming.
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The Four Gospels / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
The Four Gospels / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: A group of Pharisees in John chapter 8 bring to Jesus a woman accused of adultery and dare Him to suggest stoning her or something. Jesus turns the tables on them and shames the men by daring them to be without sin so that one of them can be the first to stone her. The men depart one by one until Jesus is left alone with the woman, when he tells her he does not condemn her and says "Go, and sin no more."
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The Four Gospels / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Four Gospels / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: At least the Trope Codifier if not the Trope Maker.
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The Four Gospels / int_c9ca4e7f	type	Kung-Fu Jesus
The Four Gospels / int_c9ca4e7f	comment	Kung-Fu Jesus: The moment in the Gospel of Matthew when Jesus cleared the temple in Jerusalem. With a whip. That he made himself for that very purpose (meaning that it wasn't a moment of blind rage, but rather a very deliberate thing he put time and effort into while the Apostles watched him do it). It's worth emphasizing pacifists are not usually known for wandering into public meeting places with weapons to beat eight tons of crap out of everyone making a quick buck off of religion. Yet that is exactly what Jesus did. He also flipped a table made of marble.
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The Four Gospels / int_c9e20e01	type	Unexpected Kindness
The Four Gospels / int_c9e20e01	comment	Unexpected Kindness: The Samaritan woman is very amazed when Jesus politely asks her for a drink of water and then talks to her (with strictness but kindly), as the Jews and the Samaritans are at that point violent arch-enemies.
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The Four Gospels / int_cbabd0ca	type	Wrongfully Attributed
The Four Gospels / int_cbabd0ca	comment	Wrongfully Attributed: In the gospel of Matthew, for some strange reason, a quote from Zechariah was attributed by the author to Jeremiah (possibly thinking of the passage where Jeremiah bought a field from his cousin Hanamel, being prophetic to Judas Iscariot's money being used by the priests to buy the potter's field):
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The Four Gospels / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Four Gospels / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: You'd expect something Older Than Feudalism to be exempt from this trope, but in the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, a wasteful manager is told that he's going to be fired, so he needs to give an accounting of his management. While the audit was still going on, he cooked the books in such a way as to get on the good side of his master's debtors, so that they'd be grateful to him...so that he could mooch off them. However, the overall moral of the story is about doing good to others so that you will be received into everlasting homes.
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The Four Gospels / int_cd87bdbe	type	Purpose-Driven Immortality
The Four Gospels / int_cd87bdbe	comment	Purpose-Driven Immortality: In the gospel of Luke, an old man named Simeon was told by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ. The minute he saw Joseph and Mary bring the infant Jesus into the Temple to dedicate Him to the Lord, he took Jesus in his arms and said, "Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel." (Luke 2:29-32)
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The Four Gospels / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Four Gospels / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Not quite atheists per se, but some people denied Jesus' divinity even immediately after watching Him perform real-life miracles.
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The Four Gospels / int_cf98facb	type	Supernormal Bindings
The Four Gospels / int_cf98facb	comment	Supernormal Bindings: Jesus' comment to Peter in the gospel of Matthew that "whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" is often intepreted in Pentecostal circles as Jesus giving authority to believers to "bind" and "loose" spirits in this fashion. Also Jesus' comment, which is used to support this interpretation: â€œNo one can enter a strong manâ€™s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong manâ€™s house.â€� (Mark 3:27)
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The Four Gospels / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Four Gospels / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Jesus uses the imagery of a man removing his own leg to mark how completely a man must separate himself from sins. In the context of Matthew 5:29, he's referring to the need for men to avoid not only adultery, but sustained lust, even if it is severely difficult. Mark 9:45-46 adds this:
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The Four Gospels / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
The Four Gospels / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Jesus, of course, claims this title for Himself.
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The Four Gospels / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
The Four Gospels / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: Or in this case Hanukkah, which in the gospel of John is mentioned as the Feast of Dedication, which Jesus and the Jews celebrate, but is eclipsed by Jesus having another discussion with the Jews about His being the Messiah.
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The Four Gospels / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
The Four Gospels / int_d1ceb951	comment	The wise man built his house on a rock foundation; the foolish man built on the sand. The Pharisee was arrogant and Holier Than Thou in his prayers, the Tax Collector was humble and repentant and got right with God. The wise virgins kept enough oil for their lamps; the foolish virgins ran out and missed the wedding party. The rich man made himself comfortable on earth and suffered in the afterlife; poor Lazarus suffered on earth and was comforted in the afterlife.
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The Four Gospels / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
The Four Gospels / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": In some translations, Jesus' "Peace, be still" to the wind and waves in the gospel of Mark comes off as Him yelling "Quiet!"
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The Four Gospels / int_d260f885	type	Fighting Back Is Wrong
The Four Gospels / int_d260f885	comment	Fighting Back Is Wrong: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to turn the other cheek rather than resist your abuser.
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The Four Gospels / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The Four Gospels / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: After Jesus' Resurrection, the Jewish leaders bribed the guards to say they were asleep and the disciples stole His body, but this alibi compromises them as it requires them to admit they were sleeping on the job (a very serious offense for soldiers). It also raises the obvious question of how they knew that the disciples stole the body if they were asleep when it happened.
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The Four Gospels / int_d352b919	type	No Sympathy for Grudgeholders
The Four Gospels / int_d352b919	comment	No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: Jesus states in Matthew 6:15 that God won't forgive those who aren't willing to forgive others.
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The Four Gospels / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Four Gospels / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Jesus encourages His followers to invoke this if other followers do something wrong in Luke 17:3:
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The Four Gospels / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
The Four Gospels / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: In the earliest manuscripts of Mark's gospel, the story ends abruptly after the women discover Jesus' empty tomb, "and they were greatly afraid." Later versions expand the story with more details about His post-resurrection appearances. Compare them here. Modern bibles tend to mark these extra verses off using italics or square brackets.
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The Four Gospels / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Four Gospels / int_d52d28b6	comment	They cared only about external appearances and little about cleansing themselves from within, with Jesus also comparing them to whitewashed tombs that looked beautiful on the outside while being full of dead men's bones.
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The Four Gospels / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
The Four Gospels / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: The story of Jesus with the woman caught in adultery in John chapter 8 is a perfect example. The Jewish leaders who brought the woman to Him wanted Him to pass judgment on her so they could have something to accuse Him of. Instead, Jesus says to them, "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone." Realizing that none of them qualify as being "the one who is without sin", they all left one by one, leaving Jesus alone with the woman, who is then let go and told not to sin anymore.
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The Four Gospels / int_d5daa5ca	type	I Am Legion
The Four Gospels / int_d5daa5ca	comment	I Am Legion: A demon-possessed man named the trope, identifying himself by saying, "My name is Legion, for we are many." Presumably speaking in the Voice of the Legion. His Meaningful Name (and subsequent possession of pigs, which are unclean under Mosaic law but eaten by gentiles with no issue) is a clear allusion to how Roman authority was perceived amongst Jews.
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The Four Gospels / int_d705a976	type	The Soulsaver
The Four Gospels / int_d705a976	comment	The Soulsaver: Jesus dying on the cross saved the souls of all who believe in Him, both those who had died before Him like Abraham and people who came after Him. (Some interpretations have him literally going To Hell and Back to retrieve the righteous dead.)
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The Four Gospels / int_d7a5fa23	type	Symbolically Broken Object
The Four Gospels / int_d7a5fa23	comment	Symbolically Broken Object: At Jesus' death, the veil in the Temple that separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place was torn in two, symbolically showing that man now had access to God through Jesus Christ instead of through the high priest.
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The Four Gospels / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
The Four Gospels / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Very, very much the theme of Jesus' teachings, as exemplified in John 3:16:
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The Four Gospels / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Four Gospels / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jesus tells His disciples in Matthew chapter 10 that if a city doesn't receive them or hear their words, then they should wipe the dust of their feet as they leave the city as a testimony against them, saying that it will be more tolerable for the city of Sodom in the day of judgment than for that city. Jesus tells Jerusalem in Matthew 23:38-39, since He wanted to gather their children together like a hen with a brood of chicks and they were not willing: "Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see Me again until the day that you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.'" Most of Jesus' disciples pretty much forsook Him and fled when He was arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin and before Pontius Pilate to be judged and convicted, although Jesus did predict beforehand from Scripture that they would do this, and that Peter, as bold as he claimed to be of being with His Messiah even unto death, would deny Him three times. Of course, they would make up for this and more after the resurrection.
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The Four Gospels / int_dabda72b	type	Only the Worthy May Pass
The Four Gospels / int_dabda72b	comment	Only the Worthy May Pass: In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says only those who do the will of God the Father are worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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The Four Gospels / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Four Gospels / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Jesus' plan involved being tortured to death and taking all the sin in the world onto himself, going to Hell, kicking Satan's ass and taking his house key, and coming back to tell the tale (whew). It takes him three days.
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The Four Gospels / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
The Four Gospels / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: Jesus' crucifixion alongside two criminals, as told in all four Gospels.
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The Four Gospels / int_dc115332	type	Scrubbing Off the Trauma
The Four Gospels / int_dc115332	comment	Scrubbing Off the Trauma: Pontius Pilate washes his hands after sentencing Jesus to death, to assuage his guilt. Church tradition claims that after he was exiled from his post, he spent his retirement ritually cleaning his hands in the snow over and over and over again.
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The Four Gospels / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
The Four Gospels / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: In all four Gospels, one of Jesus' disciples (mentioned as Peter in the Gospel of John) cuts off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest's servant. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus touches the place where the ear has been cut off and it is healed.
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The Four Gospels / int_dc791d50	type	Words Can Break My Bones
The Four Gospels / int_dc791d50	comment	Words Can Break My Bones: Jesus' Words can do a lot of things: calm storms, bring healing to people, cast out demons, even knock people on their butts at one point. In John chapter 18, when Judas Iscariot came with the Temple guards to arrest Jesus, Jesus asked, "Whom are you seeking?", and the guards answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus responded with, "I am He" (or more literally, just "I AM"), which, when He said that, caused Judas and the guards to fall to the ground. Jesus tells His disciples that if they have faith even as small as a mustard seed, they could go tell a mountain to remove itself, and it would obey them. Jesus Himself is referred to by John as the Wordnote John 1:1-5. John says that the Word existed before everything, the Word was with God, the Word was God, and that everything was created through the Word. This Word is Jesus, who has the Name above all other namesnote Philippians 2:9. So, words can't just break your bones, words (the Word, Jesus) created your bones.
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The Four Gospels / int_dcd13ea5	type	Always with You
The Four Gospels / int_dcd13ea5	comment	Always with You: The last words of the Gospel of Mathew is the Trope Maker:
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The Four Gospels / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Four Gospels / int_dde7da12	comment	Come to Gawk: A good deal of the people who showed up at Jesus' crucifixion, staying there mostly to humiliate Jesus until He died.
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The Four Gospels / int_df04089a	type	Lineage Comes from the Father
The Four Gospels / int_df04089a	comment	Lineage Comes from the Father: Played with with Jesus's lineage. Jewish society played this trope straight, so how could God have Jesus be both biological descendant and legal heir of King David when he has no biological human father? A popular interpretation is that the genealogy presented in Luke is actually through Mary (with the different fathers listed for Joseph being justified as Heli being his father-in-law), meaning both Joseph and Mary can claim to be descendants of the royal line of Judah, making Jesus both a biological descendant of the royal line via Mary and its legal heir via his adoptive father Joseph, who is a direct male descendant of the royal line.
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The Four Gospels / int_e16202	type	Pilgrimage
The Four Gospels / int_e16202	comment	Pilgrimage: As related in the Gospel of Luke, upon seeing the star marking the birth of Jesus, the Wise Men or kings from the east set out to search for Him and offer up gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
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The Four Gospels / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
The Four Gospels / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: Luke chapter 1 is chock full of moments where people just burst into song.
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The Four Gospels / int_e277967	type	What Is Evil?
The Four Gospels / int_e277967	comment	What Is Evil?: In the gospel of John, when Pilate asks Jesus if He is a king, and Jesus answers in the affirmative, adding "For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice," Pilate responds only with "What is truth?"
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The Four Gospels / int_e31b965b	type	Improbable Food Budget
The Four Gospels / int_e31b965b	comment	Improbable Food Budget: In all four Gospels, Jesus is able to feed a few thousand people just out of a few loaves and fishes, and even have leftovers filling several baskets. One of His disciples even said it would take 200 denarii (or 200 full days' wages) in order to give that many people just a little something to eat.
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The Four Gospels / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The Four Gospels / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: When Jesus is crucified, the sky turns dark (even though it's three in the afternoon), the curtain in the Temple (before the Holy of Holies) is torn apart and the dead rise again and start walking around. See Total Eclipse of the Plot.
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The Four Gospels / int_e3ebcde9	comment	Lending a Backhand: When Jesus is thirsty while being crucified, someone holds a wet sponge up to his mouth... that turns out to be soaked with sour wine and gall. Understandably, he was unwilling to drink any more after one taste.
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The Four Gospels / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: In a few instances, Jesus riled up a mob of people angry enough to want to kill Him. In the gospel of Luke, after He told the people of Nazareth about prophets of God that were sent not to the Israelites but to those outside Israel and did miracles for them instead, the people wanted to throw Him off a cliff, but He instead walked right through the crowd and escaped. In the gospel of John, after declaring Himself to be the I Am, a group of people went to pick up stones to cast at Him, but He also escaped. A similar related incident at the time of the Feast of Dedication a little later in the book also occurred, with a similar outcome.
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The Four Gospels / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Jesus gives Simon the new name "Peter", which means "rock", because of his declaration that Jesus is the Messiah who will be the rock on which Jesus will build His church. (Which makes sense since God is constantly referred to by the Jews as "the Rock.") Or Peter himself as the rock, according to Catholic interpretations.
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The Four Gospels / int_e6fa475c	comment	Offered the Crown: Satan offered kingship of the nations to Jesus if He would bow down and worship Satan, but Jesus refused and told Satan to worship and serve the Lord God only. In the book of John, a group of people whom Jesus had fed with the miracle of loaves and fish wanted to make Jesus their king, but He refused that offer, which would have forced Him to lead the people in revolt against the Roman government, as that was not His purpose during His first advent.
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The Four Gospels / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Jesus predicts several times that one of the Twelve will betray him. Judas Iscariot, after a Faceâ€“Heel Turn, stays among the Twelve until he can sell Jesus out.
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The Four Gospels / int_e94ff7e2	comment	Financial Abuse: An inversion, when Jesus criticized the practice of dedicating property to the Temple to avoid taking care of one's parents. Presumably this was either because of spite or because of a loophole that allowed the owner to use the property while not owning it, thus having his cake and eating it too.
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The Four Gospels / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In the gospel of John, Pilate insisted the sign on Jesus' cross should read "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." When the Pharisees asked him to make it say "This man said he is the king of the Jews," Pilate retorted, "What I have written, I have written."
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The Four Gospels / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The shortest and earliest records of Mark's Gospel have Mary Madgalene, Mary, Mother of Jesus and the other Mary turn up to the cave where Jesus is interred only to find it re-opened and a man dressed in white telling them that Jesus is gone. The three Marys flee in fear...and that's it. No resurrection, no reappearance. Later manuscripts from the same period include twelve more verses, and this version is known as the "Longer Ending".
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The Four Gospels / int_eb8e12d6	comment	The Rules Lawyer Pharisees frequently try to entrap Jesus with this dilemma. Jesus rebuts them by arguing that to do good is to follow what the Law intends.
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The Four Gospels / int_ed508250	comment	Showing Up Chauvinists: An in-universe Fridge Logic example: when Jesus visits Martha and Mary (the sisters of Lazarus) in The Four Gospels, Martha is annoyed that Mary doesn't help her with the cooking and instead sits and listens to Jesus's sermon. When Martha complains about this, Jesus tells Martha that she worries too much about minor matters, while paying attention to God's word is a lot more more important. Some theologians who analyze this part note that the fact of women learning religion just like men (or better than them, since it's a group of women, Martha and Mary among them, who get to be the first to know about the Resurrection and believe in it!) was quite a sensation in the 1st century AD-Middle East.
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The Four Gospels / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
The Four Gospels / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says not to swear an oath at all, neither by heaven, "for it is God's throne", nor by earth, "for it is God's footstool", nor by Jerusalem, "for it is the city of the Great King", nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make even one hair white or black, but simply let your Yes be Yes and your No be No, for anything more than these, He says, comes from evil. Jesus at the end of the gospel of Matthew, after His resurrection, tells His disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
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The Four Gospels / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Four Gospels / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Lots of people were named Jesus, hence him always being referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth". Tradition states that Barabbas, the man released in Jesus' place, was also named Jesusnote Barabbas, or Bar Abba in Aramaic, is actually his last name, meaning "son of the Father." Some people therefore interpret this as allegorical, with the Jews accepting Barabbas the rebel (as they viewed the Messiah to be a warrior leader) instead of Jesus. Among Jesus' disciples, there were two men named Jacob, two named Judas, and two named Simon (one had to be nicknamed "Peter"). On one occasion, John has to introduce dialogue by saying, "Judas, not Iscariot, said..." "Judas who is not called Iscariot" is now known as St. Jude, patron of lost causes, because so few people would pray to him on account of the similarity. What makes even less sense is that he was only called Judas in Luke and John, while Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. Why he's called St. Jude instead of St. Thaddeus, making Jesus' brother the only "Jude" (which would be far less confusing), is still a mystery. Some countries make a compromise by referring to him, in full, as "Judas Thaddeus". The Book of John, written by John the Apostle, opens up by introducing another John, John the Baptist. Also, depending how you count, there may be as many as four women (and definitely at least two) named Mary. There is the Blessed Mother of Jesus, the Magdalene who has seven demons exorcised from her, the sister of Lazarus and Martha of Bethany, and the mother of James the younger and Joses. There are two kings called Herod—Herod the Great and Herod Antipas. There are also three people named James: James the son of Zebedee and James the son of Alpheus are both apostles, and Jesus has a (half?) brother named James who later becomes a leader in the church.
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The Four Gospels / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
The Four Gospels / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: The Trope Namer, from Luke 10: he saw a badly-injured stranger who'd been robbed and stripped naked, and tended his wounds and paid an innkeeper to take care of him until he recovered...even when religious leaders passed this same stranger by.
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The Four Gospels / int_eece5183	type	Have You Seen My God?
The Four Gospels / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: Jesus' dying words (quoting from Psalm 22) — "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" This has led to endless theological discussion as to whether Jesus was literally forsaken by God the Father (as He suffered for our sins), merely felt forsaken by God (as he was being unjustly executed by torture), or was just reciting a Psalm for spiritual support as He died — or any combination of the three.
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The Four Gospels / int_efca7df8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
The Four Gospels / int_efca7df8	comment	Insignia Ripoff Ritual: The "rip up the check" variation appears here, with Judas Iscariot throwing the 30 pieces of silver he was paid to betray Jesus back at the feet of the high priests before hanging himself in shame.
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The Four Gospels / int_f052b794	type	Phosphor-Essence
The Four Gospels / int_f052b794	comment	Phosphor-Essence: During the Transfiguration, Jesus appears to shine with light before Peter, James and John when they are on the mountain with him ("His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light." - Matthew 17). At the same time, Moses and Elijah appear talking to Jesus, and a voice from the sky declares "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" (Mark 9), revealing Jesus' divine nature.
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The Four Gospels / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
The Four Gospels / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: In the Gospel of John, in one of His last speeches to His disciples before His arrest and crucifixion, Jesus tells His disciples that He must now go back to God the Father, for His work on earth is nearing its end, but promising that when He does, He will send them the Comforter — the Holy Spirit — who will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and will also be with the disciples.
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The Four Gospels / int_f492089e	type	Quote-to-Quote Combat
The Four Gospels / int_f492089e	comment	Quote-to-Quote Combat: In Luke 4 Satan tries to tempt Jesus into throwing himself from the highest point in the temple and quotes from the Psalms out of context and Quote Mined to suggest that God will prevent Jesus from falling to his death. Jesus shoots back with "you shall not tempt the Lord your God" from the book of Deuteronomy.
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The Four Gospels / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
The Four Gospels / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: In Luke 2, 12-year-old Jesus gets lost when the family is returning from Passover in Jerusalem. Mary and Joseph are frantic (this is GOD'S SON they were supposed to keep an eye on!), and they return to Jerusalem to search for Him. When they find Jesus safe in the temple, Mary's worry (like any mother's) turns to anger: "Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You."
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The Four Gospels / int_f690d996	type	Refuge in the West
The Four Gospels / int_f690d996	comment	Refuge in the West: When King Herod orders the killing of the infants, an angel warns Joseph to take Mary and Jesus out of Bethlehem to Egypt to escape the slaughter. They stay there until after Herod's death, at which point they return to their home in Nazareth.
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The Four Gospels / int_f69d396a	type	Walk on Water
The Four Gospels / int_f69d396a	comment	Walk on Water: Jesus did this on the Sea of Galilee, when His disciples went ahead of Him and He went alone on a mountain to pray and then later joined them. When the disciples were struggling with the waves on the sea, they were frightened at first to see Jesus just casually walking on top of the water like it was nothing and thought it was a ghost, until Jesus tells them that it is He and to not be afraid. In the gospel of Matthew, Peter gets out of the boat when Jesus calls him and so briefly walks on the water until he takes his eyes off Jesus and starts to sink. Jesus reaches out and pulls Peter up, saying, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"
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The Four Gospels / int_f6c1a6d1	type	Religious Russian Roulette
The Four Gospels / int_f6c1a6d1	comment	Religious Russian Roulette: Satan tempts Jesus to prove His divinity by throwing Himself off the temple, since if He is really the Son of God then God would send angels to protect Him from harm. Jesus rebuts this attempt by quoting the Scripture that says, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test."
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The Four Gospels / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
The Four Gospels / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: Matthew's account of Herod's attempted murder of the infant Messiah is the Trope Maker.
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The Four Gospels / int_f8c079b3	type	With Us or Against Us
The Four Gospels / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: Jesus states in passages such as Matthew 12:30 and Luke 11:23 that if you're not for Him, then you're against Him. In other words, neutrality in Him doesn't exist, and the person will either accept Him as savior or not. Inverted in Mark 9:38-41 and Luke 9:49-50, where the disciples wanted to stop another exorcist from casting out demons because he was not following them, but Jesus chastised them, saying "Whoever is not against us is for us."
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The Four Gospels / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
The Four Gospels / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: In the Gospel of Luke, the criminal crucified to the right of Jesus asks for forgiveness before he dies, and Jesus grants it to him. He became Saint Dismas, the good thief, in the Catholic tradition. The other criminal, the impenitent thief, is Defiant to the End and taunts Jesus about not saving Himself.
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The Four Gospels / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: Deconstructed by Jesus himself in the Parable of the Sower. Some people just won't hear the message, while others accept the word with joy right away, but then give up just as quickly as soon as the going gets tough. Real faith requires depth and time to grow.
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The Four Gospels / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
The Four Gospels / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: The rendering of Jesus' words in Mark 5:39 in the English Standard Version: "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping." The rendering of Matthew 11:17 in the International Standard Version: "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn."
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The Four Gospels / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Four Gospels / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells His disciples to "beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." The disciples are thinking, "He's saying this because we didn't bring any bread." Jesus has to remind them of the two feeding miracles they have accomplished to get them to understand that He wasn't talking about bread.
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The Four Gospels / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Four Gospels / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: For an Incorruptible Pure Pureness who preaches love, kindness, and forgiveness, this wasn't the case when Jesus finds the merchants making His father's house into a den of robbers instead of a house of prayer. There's also His warnings about eternal damnation in Hell if people don't repent.
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The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Doves Mean Peace / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Dumb Is Good / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Dying Alone / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Egocentrically Religious / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Embodiment of Virtue / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Et Tu, Brute? / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Even Evil Can Be Loved / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Even Evil Has Standards / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Everyone Meets Everyone / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Evil Is Burning Hot / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Face Death with Despair / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Fantastic Legal Weirdness / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Fatal Flaw / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Fire/Water Juxtaposition / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Foul Fox / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Gentleman Snarker / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Giving Them the Strip / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Go and Sin No More / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	God Before Dogma / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	God Is Good / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	God Save Us from the Queen! / int_7894fb5d
Godspell	seeAlso	The Four Gospels
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Good Hurts Evil / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Gratuitous Foreign Language / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Grief Song / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Harsher in Hindsight / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Heaven Above / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Heel Realization / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Hell / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Heroic Sacrifice / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	His Own Worst Enemy / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Holiday Pardon / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Holy Halo / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Huge Rider, Tiny Mount / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Humble Hero / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Hypocritical Humor / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	I Have No Son! / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Immortality Hurts / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Implausible Deniability / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Improbable Food Budget / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Incredibly Inconvenient Deity / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Involuntary Charity Donation / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Ironic Name / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Jacob Marley Warning / int_7894fb5d
Jesus	seeAlso	The Four Gospels
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Karmic Jackpot / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Knight in Sour Armor / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Kung-Fu Jesus / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Karma / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Fertility / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Lending a Backhand / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Let's Wait Awhile / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Madonna-Whore Complex / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Mainstream Obscurity / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Mammon / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Mentor Occupational Hazard / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Mindless Sheep / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Muggle Foster Parents / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Musical Episode / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Naked Nutter / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Nameless Narrative / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Never My Fault / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	No Hero to His Valet / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	No Sympathy for Grudgeholders / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	No True Scotsman / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Only the Worthy May Pass / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Open Mouth, Insert Foot / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Oratorio / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Out, Damned Spot! / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Phosphor-Essence / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Physical Religion / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Pilgrimage / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Pride / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Prophecy Armor / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Purple Is Powerful / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Pyrrhic Villainy / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Rash Promise / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	"Rashomon"-Style / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Real Men Love Jesus / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Refuge in the West / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Religious Russian Roulette / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Reptiles Are Abhorrent / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Resigned to the Call / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Revised Ending / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Riddle for the Ages / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Satan / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Screw This, I'm Outta Here / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Scrubbing Off the Trauma / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Serial Spouse / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Set the World on Fire / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Showing Up Chauvinists / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Significant Name Overlap / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Signs of the End Times / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Silly Prayer / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Sinister Minister / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	So Proud of You / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Spin the Earth Backwards / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Symbolic Baptism / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Symbolic Mutilation / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Symbolically Broken Object / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Tagalong Kid / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Tall Poppy Syndrome / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	The Starscream / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	This Is Gonna Suck / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	This Is Unforgivable! / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	To Be Lawful or Good / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Toilet Seat Divorce / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Translation Convention / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Truly Single Parent / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Unexpected Kindness / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Unstable Equilibrium / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Untrusting Community / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Unwanted Revival / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Values Resonance / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Virgin Power / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Watering Down / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Weather Manipulation / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Weeding Out Imperfections / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Wham Line / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	What Happened to the Mouse? / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Whip of Dominance / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Widow Mistreatment / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Wild Hair / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Wise Serpent / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	With Us or Against Us / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Word of Saint Paul / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	Wowing Cthulhu / int_7894fb5d
The Four Gospels	hasFeature	You Owe Me / int_7894fb5d

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