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 Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:40:50 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=963 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he was stating for them a parable, it being necessary for them always to be praying and not to lose heart. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 18: 1-17) . . The “them” were the disciples of Jesus. He had just taught them about the peril facing all human beings (see Info CE). They needed encouragement to maintain their trust in him and his father above. So he encouraged them.He stated, “In a certain town there was a certain judge not fearing God and not being turned by man and there was in that same town a widow and she was coming to him, stating, ‘Avenge me against my adversary!’ And, for a time, he did not wish to, but, after these, he said in himself, ‘Though I do not fear God and am not turned by man, yet through this same widow providing trouble to me, I will avenge her so that she will not wear me down in endless coming.’” The “judge” had no vertical accountabilities to move him towards compassion – and no horizontal ones to keep him in check. Would you trust such a Trump-like “judge”? And yet, he did see to “her adversary.” http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=963 Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=962 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret “Because just as the lightning-flash, lightning-flashing from the ‘under the heaven’ into the ‘under heaven’, shines – like so will be the Son of Man in his day. But first it is necessary for him himself to suffer many things and to be rejected from this generation.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 17: 24-37) . .. . What did these words of Jesus actually mean at that time? ("In his day ... the Son of Man ... will be ... like ... the lightning-flash, lightning-flashing ... under heaven.” “But first it is necessary for him himself to suffer many things and to be rejected from this generation.”) What are your thoughts? Jesus was “going into Jerusalem” where he would be rejected, tortured and killed. Was this the suffering of “many things.” Then he would rise from the dead. Is his resurrection from death the continuing “lightning-flash” to a world “under heaven” where every person will, actually and for certain, personally die? Why can’t we see it?“And, according as it came to be in the days of Noah, like so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating, were drinking, were marrying, were being given in marriage, until a day when Noah came into the ark, and the cataclysm came and destroyed them all.” From the Bible’s first book – Genesis - we know something about “the days of Noah” “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.” Is history repeating itself today? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=962 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 EST http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=961 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And it came to be, in going into Jerusalem, he himself also was coming through the middle of Samaria and of Galilee. And, he himself coming into a certain village, ten men clustered, who stood afar off, and they themselves lifted up a voice, stating, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” And, seeing them, he said to them, “Going, exhibit yourselves to the priests!” And it came to be, in their going down, they were cleansed. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 17: 11-25) . .. .. . This event in Jesus’ life, around AD 30, is interesting because all ten lepers were sent away without knowing whether or not they had been cured. “The priests” would examine them and decide whether or not they were permitted to be among non-lepers. To go, did they need faith in Jesus?But one of them, seeing that he was cured, returned, glorifying God with a great voice; and he fell upon his face near Jesus’ feet, giving thanks to him. And he himself was a Samaritan. But Jesus, answering, said, “Were the ten not cleansed? But where the nine? No returning ones were found to give glory to God except this foreigner.” And he said to him, “Rising up, travel on! Your faith has saved you.” The nine were “cured.” One, for sure, was “saved.” The one who personally “gave thanks” to Jesus. And he, as it were, was ‘not one of us.’ “A Samaritan.” Is that also something about which to be thankful to Jesus? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=961 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=960 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he said to his disciples, “It is not an admissible thing for entrapments not to come. More, alas through whom they come. It profits him if a mill stone is placed around his neck and he had been thrown into the sea than that he may entrap one of these little ones.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 17: 1-10) . .. .. .. . At this point, Jesus is explaining something to his disciples - not to the crowds nor to the religious leaders. The issue is the inevitable “entrapments” all over the place at all times. Inevitable, yes. More inevitable is the awful fate of every entrapper of “these little ones.”What had given rise to this? See Info CB. The religious leaders of the day had entrapped a rich man into ignoring the Lord God in his heart – as well as the starving ulcerated beggar (Lazarus) just outside his gate. The rich man, in his turn, had entrapped beggar Lazarus in his misery all through until he died and went to heaven. “Protect yourselves! If your brother may sin, instruct him, and if he may mind-change, forgive him! And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and may turn around to you seven times, stating, ‘I mind-change’, you will forgive him.” Jesus instructed his disciples to look after one another in two aspects: first by instructing one another who “may sin” by entrapping others; second by repeatedly forgiving any who “sins against you” when they mind-change.Are these same two aspects important in all personal relationships: saving folk from sinning against others and bringing forgiveness to them? That’s what Jesus said that he himself came into the world to do.If you were, as a disciple, trying to do both of those things so as to bless others, would you very much feel that you needed help? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=960 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=959 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But they - the Pharisees possessing a love of silver - were hearing all these things and they were sneering at him. And he said to them, “You yourselves are those righteousing yourselves in the sight of the people, but God knows your hearts, in that the exalted thing among people is an abomination in the sight of God.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 16: 14-31) . .. .. .. .. . Why were they “sneering at him”? He had “stated” a parallel – see Info CA – in which a “house-master”, on losing his position of trust with a “rich man”, had unrighteously reduced the “loan-debts” due to his “lord.” He did that so as to become “friends” with those debtors so that those new “friends” would provide him a home with them in future.“The Pharisees”, Jerusalem’s religious leaders, had been minimising the responsibilities of their wealthy “friends” to live for the Lord God in every aspect of their lives. By minimising “the Law and the Prophets” in the Bible’s Old Testament, they had made many such “friends” who shared their “love of silver.” Good “house-masters” of the Lord God? “The Law and the Prophets – until John. From then, the kingdom of God is announced good and everyone forces into it but it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to fall. Everyone who sets free his wife and marries another is adulterous and the one marrying one set free from a husband is adulterous.” Were “the Law and the Prophets” only “until John” the Baptist? On him, see Info AJ. Some had forced themselves into “the kingdom of God” – into merciful forgiveness by Jesus. They still wanted to live as though “the Law”, from God through “Moses”, no longer applied to them. They wanted to live their lives as they wished – "silver", warts, and all. The two examples of an “adulterous” man need to be connected with the discussions so far. In both cases, the “adultery” arose, in Jesus’ view, not from the marital breakdown but from the actual “marrying.” Is it “adulterous” for one forgiven by Jesus is to continue to love self, and “silver” rather than the Lord God and his “the Law and the Prophets.” http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=959 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=958 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he [Jesus] also stated to the disciples, “A certain man was rich, who had a house-manager, and this one was accused to him of wasting his belongings. And, calling him out, he said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give over the word of your house-management, because you no longer have power to house-manage.’” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 16: 1-13) . .. .. .. .. .. . At this stage Jesus had another “parallel” for his disciples to think about. There are many family offices in Jersey’s finance industry where all the wealth of a “rich man” or family is looked after by, as it were, “a house-manager.” In a way, each of us is a “house-manager” of ourselves and all that we have been entrusted with. Religious leaders also are “house-managers.”“But the house-manager said to himself, ‘What may I do, in that my lord removes the house-management from me? I am not strong to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that when I may be stood-down from the house-management, they may receive me into their own houses.’"The “house-manager” knew he was fraudulent. But he still had authority to (appear to) adjust what was owed by others to the “rich man.” Note that the “house-manager” identified the “rich man” to be “my lord.” But he was thinking about his own future, knowing that he had lost everything. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=958 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=957 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he [Jesus] said, “A certain man has two sons and the newer of them said to his father, ‘Father, give to me the set share of the existence!’, and he divided the human-living between them.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 15: 11-32) . .. .. .. .. .. .. . At this stage in Jesus’ life, around AD 30, he has been severely criticised for “welcoming sinful people and eating with them.” His critics were the Jerusalem “Pharisees and theologians.” Now he provides the “parallel” of “a certain man” with “two sons.” Asked by “the newer” for his “set share of the existence,” the “father” gives that to both, keeping nothing back. All “human-living”, theirs. Their free lives ahead of them.“And not many days later, the newer son, gathering all, journeyed away into a long distant region and there he wasted his substance, living life carelessly. But, having spent everything, a mighty famine came to be throughout that same region and he began to be lacking. And, going, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that same region and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to fill his belly with the pods which the pigs were eating and no one was giving to him.” “The son” had nothing left, save a new porcine, consumptive identity. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=957 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=956 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But the tax collectors and the sinful were all drawing near to him [Jesus] to hear him. And therefore, the Pharisees and the theologians were complaining, stating that, “This man is welcoming sinful people and eats with them.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 15: 1-24) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . The despised “tax collectors and sinners” were welcome to draw near..But he said to them this parallel, stating, “What man among you, having a hundred sheep with one of them destroyed, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost one until he may find it? And having found, he places it upon his shoulders, rejoicing. And, coming into the house, he calls together the friends and the neighbours, stating to them, ‘Rejoice together with me, in that I found my sheep, the lost one.’ Similarly, I state to you that there will be more joy in heaven over one mind-changed sinful person than over ninety-nine nine righteous who have no mind-change.” “What man” would? A flock of “sheep” replenishes itself at lambing. Why bother about “one”? Why leave 99 at risk? Why waste celebration money? “Or what woman, having ten drachmae, with one drachma destroyed, does not touch a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until that one she finds? And having found, she calls together the friends and neighbours, stating, ‘Rejoice together with me, in that I found that destroyed drachma.’ Similarly, I state to you, joy comes to be before the angels of God over one mind-changed sinful person.” “What woman” would? A drachma, at today’s silver price is worth about £6. That’s a couple of flat-whites. Why waste celebration money? http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=956 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=955 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But a certain one of those sitting down together, hearing these things, said to him [Jesus], “Blessed whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 14: 15-35) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . Jesus had just instructed those present to invite to any “feast” any of them might arrange the “poor, crippled, lame, blind.” They would be “repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Hence, this unnamed person remarked, “blessed whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God” – those receiving their repayment at “the resurrection of the righteous.” But the one said to him, “A certain one was making a great banquet and called many. And, at the hour of the banquet, he sent out his slave to say to those who had been called, ‘Come, because it is now ready!’ But they all together as one began to reject. In that connection, Jesus told them all this parallel of the “great banquet” to which “many” were “called.” When the day came “they all together as one began to reject.” Have you received an invite to the “great banquet”? An invitation to eternal life from someone who provided it by dying and rising again. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=955 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=954 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And it came to be on the Sabbath, he [Jesus] himself coming to eat in a house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees, they were observing him. And (Look and see!) a certain man, full of water, was before him. And Jesus, responding, said to the legal people and Pharisees, stating “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But these rested and, taking hold of him, he cured him and set him free. And he said to them, “Who of you, a son or ox will fall into a pit on a Sabbath day, and you will not immediately draw him out?” And they were not able to respond against these. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 14: 1-24) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . Closely reading the above it seems that this “man, full of water” had been placed there by “the legal people and Pharisees” so as to trap Jesus into healing on the Sabbath, thereby condemning himself under the law. The two questions revealed their hearts. Each would save their own “son or ox” on a Sabbath even though they believed this would break the law. But no law may be broken to relieve the dire needs of others. Jesus, with no such self-motivation in the matter, “cured him and set him free” But he stated a parallel to those called, when he noticed how they were choosing the first places, saying to them, “When you may be called by a certain one to a wedding-contract, you may not be seated down in a first place so that if a more valued than you may have been called by him and the one who called you and him, coming, will say to you, ‘Give your place to this person!’ and then you will begin with shame to hold fast the last place. Instead, when you may be called, going, sit down into the last place! So that, when he who called you may come, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a higher place!’ Then you will be a glory before all those sitting down together with you. For everyone exalting himself will be made low, and he making himself low will be exalted.” How does this “parallel” connect with the “man, full of water”? Maybe, the “parallel” relates more to the inner orientation of those “called … to a wedding-contract.” For them, the whole point was their own demonstrable status – not the “wedding-contract.” Self-motivation drove them - again. http://thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=954 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT