DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that the Upper Room where Jesus spent the last Passover He observed on Earth was built over the tomb of King David?

Did you know that the "living water" Jesus told the woman at the well would rise up within her was His promise to her that she woulds no longer be barren?  She was not an unfaithful wife -- she was put aside by each of her husbands because she was barren.

Did you know that Jesus' life was threatened even when He was in Mary's womb and you can look at His Crucifixion as the final successful attempt on His life when He was threatened with death over and over throughout His life?

Did you know that when the Roman soldiers in charge of killing Him stuck the spear into His side, they, who were such experts at death and dying, were looking for something that only after death -- when the heart stops pumping clear fluid surrounds the heart in the sac around it?  They were trying to find out if this water was present.  Since it was, it meant He was dead and they did not have to break his legs.  The other two who were crucified on either side of Him had their legs broken because the ultimate cause of death on a cross was asphyxiation when the person was no longer able to breathe because his legs were still being used to help his diaphragm continue to help him breathe.

Did you know that the woman who anointed Jesus with oil and washed His feet with her tears and dried them with her hair was using the most important and most expensive of her belongings? The stone jar of anointing oil she would have used on herself for her wedding.  Not only was she anointing Jesus in preparation for His death, she was showing that she trusted Him completely not only for her life, but for all her hope of being a wife and mother -- the only position in society that might make her future secure.

There is so much we don;t understand about the Bible because we read it from our culture rather than trying to understand the culture in which Jesus lived, suffered, died, and rose again.