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BIBL 104
Name: Adam Cook
BIBLE STUDY PROJECT: CORRELATION
Passage: Acts 9:36-43
1)
How does this passage from Acts fit within the metanarrative of the Bible?
Looking at the passage many people think that it is just about Tabitha and her resurrection. I
believe that it is about the Apostle Peter and his transformation from devout Jew to a Christian
and the Apostles starting to perform their miracles on behalf of God.
Tabitha is the first miracles
that the Apostles perform. This would then make it a New Creation.
“Revelation 21 also tells us
that “death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things
have passed away.” (Cartwright & Hulshof, Pg. 45) That passage from Revelations can give the
idea that it could be New Creation because Tabitha is raised from the dead and the Apostle Peter
has a transformation leaving his past behind and starting his new path.
2)
How does your principle from Acts 9:36-43 fit with the rest of the Scripture?
In Acts 10:12-14 The God gives the Apostle Peter a vision where he is to kill and eat animals. “
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things,
and fowls of the air.
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And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
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But Peter said,
Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.” (Ac 10:12-14) This
vison puts to seed of doubt in Peter’s mind and furthermore demonstrates the transformation that
Peter is leaving his Jewish traditions and adopting new beliefs.
3)
How does this passage from Acts reflect the person and work of Jesus Christ?
The Apostle Peter is one of the first Apostles and he is with Jesus a lot. Peter is described as “one
of the
three named pillars of the early church in Jerusalem” (Gish, 2016).
Jesus uses Peter even
though Peter falls asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane and allows the soldiers to arrest Jesus.
During that conflict, Peter attacks the servant and cuts their ear off. Jesus calms everyone and
heals the servant Malchus. Peter then denies Jesus three times. Jesus still uses Peter because he
sees all the potential that Peter has the plan that God has laid out for him. In Acts, Peter meets
with Cornelius and explains that “it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company,
or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man
common or unclean.” (Ac 10:28) and because of this, Peter came to see Cornelius when he was
called apon.
Bibliography
John Cartwright and Chris Hulshof,
Everyday Bible Study: Growing in the Christian Faith
, ed.
Gabriel Etzel and Ben Gutierrez, 2nd edition., Everyday Bible Series (Nashville, TN: B&H
Academic, 2019)
The Holy Bible: King James Version
, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version.
(Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009)
BIBL 104
Jason Gish,
“Peter the Apostle,”
ed. John D. Barry et al.,
The Lexham Bible Dictionary
(Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).
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