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to be at the beginning of the ministry and
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then also why did he make it so much bigger?
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It occupies only a few little verses in Mark,
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and Luke expands it into this whole speech and makes it this big conflict,
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so let's look at several different things.
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First, I said--he says, "As was his custom."
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As we'll talk about next week,
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one of the main themes of the Gospel of Luke and Acts
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is that good Jewish boys do good Jewish things.
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They go to synagogue, they know their scripture,
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they're circumcised, they keep kosher,
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they worship in the temple.