The Temple Cleansing 4: "How do we spin this one?"

In this episode I talk about how the Jerusalem religious leaders try to "spin" Jesus' early miracles by saying that he is casting out demons by the prince of the demons. This is after some of them have witnessed Jesus healing a paralytic man while claiming to be able to forgive sins. Following New Testament scholar Alan Chapple, I argue that the fact that these scribes and teachers of the law, apparently representing the Jerusalem leadership, traveled all the way to Galilee from Jerusalem and were so hostile to Jesus so early in his ministry is well explained by the early Temple cleansing recorded only in John. Yet these instances of their visiting Galilee and their early hostility are recorded only in the Synoptics.

This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube Oct 12, 2020.