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just a fancy Latin word or greek word for section,
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it's the Greek form of section,
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both of them mean something cut out,
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and so pericope is what we biblical scholars often call
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a little piece of text that you do an exegesis of.
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You want to concentrate on the details of your pericope
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to try to find out what the message is.
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So that's what we're going to do with this passage 4:16-30.
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Now it would help if you also compared this
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we're not going to do that so much right now
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with Mark 6:1-6
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because Luke is getting this scene from Mark.