http://thetrinityinjersey.org THE Trinity in Jersey - a series of weekly newsletters under the title "info for islanders" linking the Bible, Jesus Christ and Jersey. Immediately after his resurrection and just before his ascension in AD 33, Jesus Christ instructed his key followers to make disciples of all nations. They were to do this in two ways: first, by immersing them into the name (all the attributes and facts about) the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; second, by teaching them to observe and obey all that he had commanded them. THE Trinity in Jersey "info for islanders" seeks to assist in both those ways in making disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. en Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:24:53 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=925 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And in fact, he said a parallel to them: “Is a blind person able to lead the way for a blind person? Will they not both fall into a pit?2 (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 6: 39 - 49) . . In Luke’s research report, Jesus, at this time, was completing a keynote speech to a great multitude, which had been present to see his power and authority. The speech had been totally ‘other’ – see Infos AR and AS. It taught what had never been taught before. No doubt many began to see.Then he asked the above questions in a parallel. The answers are clear. But the question arises: who is able to “lead the way for a blind person”?“A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone, having been perfected, will be like his teacher.”The word “disciple” means ‘pupil’ – pupil of a “teacher”. To the crowd there, Jesus was the supreme go-to “teacher”. Not a pupil. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=925 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=924 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret “But I state to you, the listeners: Love those opposing you! Do good to those hating you! Announce good towards those cursing you! Pray for those mistreating you! To the one striking you on the cheek make available the other also! And from the one taking away your coat you may not withhold your shirt also. Give to everyone asking you! And from one taking away your goods do not ask back! And just as you desire that the people might do to you, do likewise to them!” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 6: 27-38) . .. . Luke’s researches led him into recording these recollections of Jesus’ teachings around AD29. This occasion saw a “great multitude … who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.” He “was healing all” and had then shocked all (see Info AR) with his ““Blessed ones the poor … But alas to you the rich ones …” Reality in a veneered world.Jesus continued to speak to this “great multitude”, this time (see red above and below) by commands to them all. His extensive use of the imperative tense can be seen when identified by exclamation marks.Was this, at that time, a kind of new Ten Commandments? If so, and if we everyone, even now, carried out Jesus’ commands, would the world change? Would the Ukraine war cease? Are these instructions dis-arming?The problem with it is that, whilst you may do the commands, others won’t. Given that to be the case, will you continue with the present world order? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=924 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=923 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact, they were filled full of mindlessness and were discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus. In fact, it came to be in these days he himself came out into the mountain to pray, and, continuing through the night, he was in prayer to God. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 6: 11-26) . .. .. . The description above, which took place around AD 29, concludes the incident when Jesus restored the withered right hand of a synagogue-attending mab on a Sabbath day. The “mindlessness” took hold of the “theologians and Pharisees” inasmuch as they saw that healing as evil.No wonder Jesus turned to all-night “prayer to God”. Did God respond?And when day came to be, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alphaeus, and Simon, the one called a zealot, and Judas of James, and Judas Iscariot, who came to be a traitor. The noun “apostle” means ‘sent-out’. Jesus used the related verb earlier when he said (see Info AN) “… I was sent out for this ... that I announce good – the kingdom of God…” Only twelve of “his disciples” were chosen and “named apostles”. Some of “the disciples” were not so chosen. Given human nature, things are likely to be very messy indeed, especially since one of his chosen “apostles” “came to be a traitor”. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=923 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=922 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact, they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and make petitions, likewise those of the Pharisees, in fact yours eat and drink.” In fact, Jesus said to them, “You aren’t able to make the sons of the bridal bedroom to fast in that the bridegroom is with them. In fact, the days will come when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 5: 33 – 6: 10) . .. .. .. . Luke records that the above question arose at a dinner party around AD29 (see Info AP), Earlier “the theologians and the Pharisees” were highly critical of Jesus and his disciples for dining, and engaging, with “sinners”.In response to their fasting critique, Jesus drew a parallel with himself being “the bridegroom.” His “disciples” were paralleled as “the sons of the bridal bedroom.” If Jesus was the Son of God, then “the sons of the bridal bedroom” would be the children of the Son of God? Revolutionary.And in fact, he also stated to them a parallel that: “No one, tearing a piece from a pristine garment, puts it upon an old garment. In fact, and if not, he will tear the pristine and also the piece from the pristine will not agree with the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. And if not, the new wine will burst the wineskins and it will be spilled out. and the wineskins will be destroyed. But new wine put into pristine wineskins. And no one drinking old desires new, because he states, ‘The old is beneficial.’” Two more revolutionary parallels. First, something very new - a “pristine garment” – must not be torn so as to patch an old religion, which would “not agree” with the patch anyway. Second, not only will the “new wine” burst the “old wineskins” but drinkers of the old want the old. Failure. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=922 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=921 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact, even more the word about him was coming through and many crowds came together to hear and to be cured of their disabilities. In fact, he was withdrawing to wilderness places and praying. And it came to be on one of the days, he again was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, were seated. And the power of the lord to cure was his. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 5: 15-32) . .. .. .. .. . The picture portrayed by Luke is one of many immense crowds coming together in many places in Palestine. They “came together to hear and to be cured of their disabilities.” At the same time – and from the same places – the religious authorities were there. They “were seated”. What about Jesus? “The power of the lord to cure was his.”And (look and see!), some men, carrying upon a bed a man who was paralyzed, were seeking to bring him in and to place him in the presence of Jesus. And, finding no way to bring him in through the crowd, they went up on the housetop, sending him down with the mattress through the tiles into the middle in the presence of Jesus. And he, seeing their faith, said, “Man, your sins are sent away from you.” “Look and see!” How would you have felt – if you had been the paralysed man and found yourself unable to run away - “in the presence of Jesus”? That’s where the men wanted to place the paralysed man: “in the presence of Jesus”. Would you have been ashamed of yourself – of your total worthlessness? Jesus said to him, “Man, your sins are sent away.” http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=921 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=920 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact, it came to be - with the crowd continuing to pressurise him and to hear the word of God - he himself was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats standing by the lake. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 5: 1-16) . .. .. .. .. .. . Back around AD 29, Jesus is being pressurised to heal. But his principal anxiety, explained to his disciples, is for all “to hear the word of God”.In fact, the fishermen, having stepped down from them, were washing the nets. In fact, getting into one of the boats (it was Simon’s), he asked him to put out a little from the earth. In fact, sitting down, he taught the crowds from the boat. In fact, when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep! And lower your nets for a haul!” One of the two “standing” boats resolved the conflict. The crowd heard.And Simon answering said, “Master, toiling through the whole night, we took nothing, but upon your statement I will lower the nets.” And, doing this, they enclosed a very large number of fish. In fact, their nets were breaking. And they signalled to the companions having come in his other boat. They came to take hold with them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking. Simon was a professional fisherman. Such was his respect for this man Jesus that he agreed to do what seemed to him to be pointless. Not only was the “haul” a huge one (breaking nets, two sinking boats) but also the fishermen, even joining together as “companions”, could not handle it. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=920 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=919 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And he came down into Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and he was teaching them on the Sabbath, and they were astonished about his teaching, for his word was with authority. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 4: 31-44) . .. .. .. .. .. .. . Back around AD 29 in Galilee, Jesus had very recently been rejected in his hometown of Nazareth. Indeed, the synagogue folk there has attempted to throw him off a clifftop. This time, in Capernaum, things are different. They listen to him, “astonished”, and they see the “authority” of his “word”.And, in the synagogue, there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he shouted out in a loud voice, “Ah! What? Us and you, Jesus the Nazarene? You have come to destroy us. I perceive who you yourself are—the holy one of God.” And Jesus instructed him, stating, “Be muzzled! And come out of him!” And the demon, throwing him down into the midst, came out of him, having done him no harm. Turmoil in church. The “spirit of an unclean demon” within a man had “perceived” the identity of Jesus and had “shouted” it out in horror. Jesus then “instructed him”. The man was freed and was unharmed. And amazement came to be upon all and they were speaking to one another stating, “What word is this? Because with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And reports about him were going out into every place in the surrounding area. The synagogue congregation again are astonished about his “word”, about its “authority and power”. This became regional news. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=919 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=918 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And he came into Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And according to his custom, he came into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, unrolling the scroll and finding the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, on account of which he anointed me [1] to announce good to the poor. He has sent me out [2] to proclaim discharge to the captives and [3] recovering of sight to blind ones, [4] to send out, discharged, oppressed ones, [5] to proclaim the welcome year of the Lord.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 4: 16-30) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . Jesus had been “teaching” in the synagogues of Galilee, “being glorified by all.” Would that be the case in Nazareth’s synagogue? He quietly read from the Scriptures of Israel (now better known as the Bible’s Old Testament) a Messianic statement written about 700 years earlier by the prophet Isaiah. Along with many others in those Scriptures over a period of about 2000 years BC, he was looking forward to an ultimate “Sabbath”, an ultimate Jubilee Year when the Lord God would come in person to his created world.Isaiah had stated and Jesus now said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, on account of which he anointed me … ” What is this “Spirit of the Lord”? In those Holy Scriptures “the Lord” was the Lord God Almighty. Who was this? Why was he there in Galilee? He had been “anointed” and “sent out” - [1] to announce good to the poor, [2] to proclaim discharge to the captives, [3] recovering of sight to blind ones, [4] to send out, discharged, oppressed ones, [5] to proclaim the welcome year of the Lord."He came for the “poor” “captive” “blind” “oppressed” “unwelcome”. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=918 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=917 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was brought, in the Spirit, in the wilderness place, forty days, being tested under the deceitful one. And he ate nothing in those same days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 4: 1-15) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . When Jesus was at “the Jordan” he was “full of the Holy Spirit”. Whilst there, when he was praying to the Father for all the people round about him, “a voice came to be from heaven, “You yourself are my son, the beloved one; in you I delight.” From there he returned to Galilee and, “in the wilderness place” is “tested under the deceitful one”. Circa AD 29.Testing is proving. Testing either proves that the tested one is strong – or shows that the tested one fails and will fail again. What strengths would we like to find in others? In ourselves?In fact, the deceitful one said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone so that it may come to be bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It has been written that ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’” “He was hungry.” In that case, why not command “this stone so that it may come to be bread”? Self-interest demands it. In addition, he could show “the deceitful one” who he really is – “the Son of God”. No ifs or buts. Why not go ahead? Isn’t this a win-win? And what’s this about not living on “bread alone”? Is there something higher than getting for myself, alone and only? Higher, even, than life? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=917 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=916 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret In fact - the expectant people and those pondering in all their hearts concerning John, whether he himself could well be the Christ - John answered all, stating, “I myself indeed immerse you in water. In fact, the one mightier than I comes: he of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He himself will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire; his winnowing fork in his hand to cleanse thoroughly his threshing floor and to bring together the wheat into his storehouse. In fact, the chaff he will burn in unquenchable fire.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 3: 15-38) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . The Jordan river, AD 29. John the Baptist was strongly calling all in the huge crowds who came to him that they needed a “mind-change immersion”. The people came, each with his or her own deep concern about the bad within them, in order to be immersed in river water because, in that way, they were able to indicate to all others their own sorrow for sin, their own need to be cleansed. Unlike the other prominent leaders and teachers at that time (and today), John made it totally clear that he was unable to help them. “I myself indeed immerse you in water.” He could not change people inside.But, like Christian churches today, John could point to a man who did have power to change people inside. He said, “In fact, the one mightier than I comes: he of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He himself will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire.” Who was this? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=916 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 EST