Punishments for disobedience. The commandment of God nullified by tradition.

Some passages referenced:

Deuteronomy 17:7, Deuteronomy 13:10-11 (laws concerning stoning).

Exodus 21:17 (death penalty for reviling father and mother); Isaiah 29:9-14 (drawing near with lips, but heart far from God); Acts 10:10-16 (abrogating the food laws); Romans 14:20 (everything is clean).

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Daniel's seventy weeks. Jesus washes his disciples' feet.

Some passages referenced:

Jeremiah 25:11-12 (Jeremiah’s prophecy of the seventy years); Leviticus 26:40-45 (covenant judgment and restoration); Psalm 141:1-2 (prayer and sacrifice); Exodus 32—34 (Moses’ intercession for Israel); Leviticus 25:8-13 (the Year of Jubilee); Daniel 5:31 (Darius receives the kingdom at the age of 62); Daniel 6 (Daniel in the lions’ den).

John 12:1-8 (Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus’ feet with the nard); John 1:29, 36, 19:36 (Jesus the Passover Lamb); Psalm 41[:9] (David’s anticipation of the betrayal of Jesus and the broader events of Jesus’ death and resurrection).

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Love your neighbour as yourself. Feeding the Five Thousand and walking on the water.

Some passages referenced:

Exodus 19:5-6 (a royal priesthood, a holy nation); Exodus 20 (Ten Words); Exodus 21—23, Deuteronomy 6—26 (expositions of the Ten Words); 1 John 4:20-21 (loving God and one’s brother); Exodus 20:13-17 (the Second Table of the Law).

1 Kings 22:17 (Israel scattered like sheep without a shepherd); Ezekiel 34 (Israel under wicked leaders like sheep without a shepherd); Numbers 27:15-21 (Joshua appointed, so that Israel won’t be like sheep without a shepherd); Ezekiel 34:11-15 (God coming to shepherd his people); 1 Samuel 21:3 (David receives five loaves of bread); Exodus 13:18, Joshua 1:14 (leaving Egypt and entering Canaan in fifties); Exodus 12:37 (numbered apart from women and children); Exodus 16 (manna in the wilderness); Exodus 18 (subdivision of the people under the elders); Mark 14:17-23 (Mark’s account of the Last Supper); 2 Kings 4:42-44 (Elisha multiplying loaves); Isaiah 43:16, 51:9-10, Psalm 77:19 (potential basis for allusions to the Red Sea Crossing in the walking on the water); Job 9:8 (‘walking upon the sea as upon dry ground’); Job 9:11 (‘Behold, he passes by me…’); Exodus 33:17-23, 34:6 (God passing by Moses).

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Laws of sexual morality. The death of John the Baptist.

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Laws of sexual morality. The death of John the Baptist.

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Slaughter and meat-eating regulations. The woman with the discharge of blood and Jairus' daughter.

Some passages referenced:

Genesis 9:3-6 (the law concerning blood); Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:33 (similarity between description of shedding blood of an animal and shedding the blood of a human being); Isaiah 13:21, 34:14 (goats and demons in the wilderness); Leviticus 11 (food laws); Deuteronomy 12:15-28 (laws for slaughter and meat-eating in the land).

Numbers 32:41, Deuteronomy 3:14, Judges 10:3-4 (Old Testament Jairs); Mark 6:56, Acts 5:15, 19:12 (healing through touch of garments and other things associated with a healer’s body); Mark 7:34 (words preserved in Aramaic).

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Slaughter and meat-eating regulations. The woman with the discharge of blood and Jairus' daughter.

Some passages referenced:

Genesis 9:3-6 (the law concerning blood); Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:33 (similarity between description of shedding blood of an animal and shedding the blood of a human being); Isaiah 13:21, 34:14 (goats and demons in the wilderness); Leviticus 11 (food laws); Deuteronomy 12:15-28 (laws for slaughter and meat-eating in the land).

Numbers 32:41, Deuteronomy 3:14, Judges 10:3-4 (Old Testament Jairs); Mark 6:56, Acts 5:15, 19:12 (healing through touch of garments and other things associated with a healer’s body); Mark 7:34 (words preserved in Aramaic).

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The Day of Coverings. The Gerasene Demoniac.

Some passages referenced:

Leviticus 25:8-10 (Year of Jubilee beginning on the Day of Atonement).

Isaiah 50:2, 51:9-10, Job 26:11-12, Psalm 18:15 (God’s power over the sea); Mark 3:27 (binding the Strong Man).

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The Day of Coverings. The Gerasene Demoniac.

Some passages referenced:

Leviticus 25:8-10 (Year of Jubilee beginning on the Day of Atonement).

Isaiah 50:2, 51:9-10, Job 26:11-12, Psalm 18:15 (God’s power over the sea); Mark 3:27 (binding the Strong Man).

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Nadab and Abihu. Teaching in parables.

Some passages referenced:

Genesis 3 (the Fall of Adam and Eve); Genesis 9 (the Fall of Ham); Genesis 16 (the Fall of Abram and Sarai); Genesis 32 (the Fall of Israel); 1 Kings 10 (the Fall of Solomon); Leviticus 9:24 (the fire of the Lord consumes the sacrifices); Exodus 24:1-2, 9-18 (the covenant ceremony at Sinai); 1 Kings 12 (Jeroboam sets up golden calves).

Isaiah 6 (Isaiah’s call); Isaiah 61:11, Jeremiah 31:27, Ezekiel 36:9, Hosea 2:23 (sowing the restored people in the land); Joel 3:13 (the sickle and the harvest); Ezekiel 17 (Ezekiel’s parable of the two eagles and the cedar); Daniel 4:21 (the tree in which the birds make their nests); Daniel 2:35 (the stone becoming a great mountain).

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