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Remember The Thieves On The Cross!

No apologetics from me today (or probably tomorrow either). But since I do believe very much more than the little bit I chewed over at length yesterday... {g} Remember, remember, the thieves on the cross: one of them penitent, both of them lost! The Good Lord did suffer with both of those men: descending and rising to live again! JRP Holy Saturday 2012

The King of Stories -- Returns

Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) An earlier guest author for the Cadre, Anne A. Kim, aka "Weekend Fisher", has also compiled a slightly different, and slightly more traditional {g}, way of solving for the Resurrection ranges, so to speak, here. Seeing as I certainly didn't need to do a harmonization study on Acts per se, except insofar as it relates to the end of the Gospel accounts (including Luke's), yet at the same time I had to find a way to ease out of telling the story, I have chosen to skip past a couple of things in early chapters of Acts. This includes reference to Judas' fate; though this can be accounted for easily enough if Peter and/or Luke is focusing on the nastiness of the result of a rope or branch snapping and Judas' body falling to the ground to be burst open. (By the legalities...