It may seem jolting if you have never considered their experience—that this\u00a0glued-group of\u00a0twelve mean would split up, that\u00a0some would periodically leave Jesus’ side, that their families would actually trump their touring activity and take priority!<\/p>\n
When we read the itineraries in the Gospels, we seldom visualize detours.<\/p>\n
But to call the priority of family a detour is to undermine the Torah-world in which the disciples and Jesus lived.<\/p>\n
In a previous post, “Rogue husbands or loyal followers,” we looked at the Torah (Exodus 21.10), the Mishanh (Ketuboth<\/i> 5.6) and a letter of the apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 7.3) as three witnesses to the priority of a man’s\u00a0presence\u00a0with and provision for his wife.<\/p>\n
It\u00a0was lawful<\/em> for Jesus to respect the schedules of his married disciples (see Mark 1:30; 1 Corinthians 9:5).<\/p>\n As they\u00a0lived out their year, we can conclude that Jesus and his disciples honored\u00a0this priority of presence and provision for one’s family, and that their itinerary adjusted accordingly.<\/p>\n In the context of the current events of the SpendaYearwithJesus story, “Family feast travel”\u00a0was one of those moments when the disciples’ responsibilities,\u00a0their\u00a0touring activity and family duties, converged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may seem jolting if you have never considered their experience—that this\u00a0glued-group of\u00a0twelve mean would split up, that\u00a0some would periodically leave Jesus’ side, that their families would actually trump their touring activity and take priority! When we read the itineraries in the Gospels, we seldom visualize detours. But to call the priority of family a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}