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As we come to chapter 23, we who have been studying together for any length of time are aware that in this portion of scripture, the Apostle Paul is facing the second phase of his trial. He has been captured. He is now a prisoner and will remain a prisoner until his death, which is some years hence; but, nevertheless, this is the beginning of his life as a prisoner. It doesn't hinder his ministry. It just gives it a new dimension...but in this particular situation, we find the Apostle Paul, as so often in his life, under stress, but maybe this is most severe or as severe as any other stress he's known.
If I can read a little bit into his thoughts and kind of see between the lines, I think he has the sense that this could be the end. The Holy Spirit had told him that bonds and afflictions awaited him at Jerusalem, that he would be delivered over to the Gentiles...and he made the statement, "I don't really know what this means, but I don't really care, either, because I don't count my life dear to myself. I only wanna finish the ministry the Lord gave me."
But it may well have been, and I'm sure it was, that in his mind, either in the foreground or the background, there was a knowledge of the fact that it was possible that his life was ending. That was hard on him, because life was exciting, even though he said, "For to me to live as Christ and to die is gain," and...and life was always a matter of planning for the future, and he did have some plans to go to Rome. He wanted to go to Rome. He wanted to confirm the Christians there. He had written them a letter and said, "I have ofttimes wanted to be with you, and to impart to you some spiritual gift, and...and to be mutually comforted with you," and he had that goal; but surely in his mind somewhere was the possible thought that this could be the wrap-up on everything. He's just been through a terrible ordeal, a riot in which his life was at stake, rescued by the Romans. He faced being scourged. Rescued from that, he now is brought to face the Jewish tribunal, the high court of Israel, the Sanhedrin.
As I was thinking through this and how we might introduce the...the thoughts that are here in verses 1 to 11, which we have begun to study already, I thought to myself, "Here is a great illustration of how the Lord ministers to one of His children in need." In thinking through, during this week, all of these folks that have been in such need, my thoughts have been in that area. I thought, "Here is the Apostle Paul, not perhaps overly conscious of the needs of others, but conscious of the death and the potential of death in his own life, and aware of the tremendous trial and pain that he was going through"; and...and in the midst of this, we see a God who comforts him, particularly as we will come to verse 11; and I began to think about what kind of God He is, what kind of Christ we have. I thought about the pagan systems of religion, the religions of the world, for the most part, in fear of their gods; afraid that if they cross their god or violate their god or do not continue to appease their god, their god will swoop down in plague or pestilence or death.
We see it all over the world as people live in fear; and we Christians have a God who is not to be feared in the sense of being afraid of what He will do to us; but, rather, we're comforted in what He will do for us. And my mind was drawn to a text that you don't need to turn to. I'll just read you the little account of it; but it's Mark 4 verse 35. It says, "And the same day, when the evening was come, He said unto them, 'Let us pass over unto the other side. We're gonna get our little boat across the Sea of Galilee.' And when they had sent away the multitude, they took Him even as He was in the boat; and there were also with Him other little boats." So there's a little fleet going across. "And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now full." The boat is full of water.
"And He was in the stern of the boat asleep on a pillow." They're all in panic, and Jesus is sound asleep. "And they awake Him and say unto Him, 'Master, carest Thou not that we perish?'" Have you ever thought about that question in the face of death or some deep trouble? "Lord, are You there? Are You sleeping? Are You like Baal confronted by Elijah? Where are You? Don't You care that we're in a situation that could end in our death?"...
I suppose in everybody's life, I know it's probably been true in your lives. It's been true in my life. There are times when we wonder where God went. Or at least if we don't wonder, the question enters our mind, "Is He there? Does He care? Master, carest Thou not that we perish?" What kind of a God do we have? I was drawn to Isaiah 49, listen to these words, verses 14 and following. "Zion said...that is the people of Israel said...'The Lord has forsaken us; my Lord has forsaken and forgotten me.'" Here are these Jews saying, "God has forsaken us. God has forgotten us. My God has forgotten me."
Listen to God's answer. "Can a woman forget her nursing child? Her child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Oh, behold...He says...I have engraved thee on the palms of My hands. I see you before Me all the time." God has not forgotten. You say, "But it seems as though there are those periods of time when you wonder." Isaiah 54 answers that in verse 6, "'The Lord has called thee like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou was refused,' saith thy God." In other words, God says, "I, you know, I called you like a forsaken partner in a marriage. I wanted you back. For a small moment have I forgotten you, but with great mercies will I re-gather you." There may be moments, but they're only moments.
"In a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, saith the Lord the Redeemer." There are those little moments when we wonder, "Carest Thou not that we perish?" I can see Paul in this situation when he becomes pensive and thoughtful after this phase of his trial is over, and he's alone in a cell, and he's sitting there, and maybe he's thinking in his mind, "I wonder how I got into this. Does God really know that this could be the end?"
You've thought it. Do you remember what Jesus did in Mark chapter 4? "He arose in the boat and He said to the winds and the waves, 'Peace...Be still.'" And there was a calm like no calm had ever been; and the disciples said, "What manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey His will?" Does He care? Yes, He cares. You see Him on John 18 as He rescues the disciples from the possibility of capture by the Romans. Hear Him as He speaks through Peter in 1 Peter 5 and says, "Casting all your care on Him, for He...what?...cares for you." Hear Micah as he says, "Who is a God like Thee who pardons iniquity, passes by the transgression, who gives mercy?"
Yes, our God is caring. He is merciful. He is gracious. He is forgiving. You say, "But, John, is that true at the times of our failures?" Yes, because, you see, grace and mercy and forgiveness can only operate in times of failure. Do you understand that? If there's no failure, there's no grace. If there's no failure, there's no forgiveness. If there's no failure, there's no mercy...
In our account for today, we see Paul, and I think he failed...I think he failed, and I think he erred, and I am excited to see God's response to that error. Now, we saw last week, beginningly, as we looked at the passage, that the Apostle Paul is drawn before the Sanhedrin. They have hastily convened in Fort Antonia, called into session by Claudius Lysias, who is the commander-in-chief of the Roman forces; and they have been called in order to try to ascertain what this man has done. The Romans saw the riot. They saw the crowd trying to murder Paul, and they didn't really know what the accusation was. They've tried several ways to find out without success; and so now Claudius Lysias figures, "If I can get the Sanhedrin together, they can judge the case. They can hear the evidence. They can come up with a crime for which he can be sent to Caesarea and tried." He assumed there must be a crime, or they wouldn't have been trying to kill him in the temple court.
So, as we approach verse 30, the session of the Sanhedrin is called together. As we come to verse 1, we see four major points in this flow of text: the confrontation, the conflict, the conquest, and the consolation.
First of all, reviewing the confrontation in verse 1, "Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, 'Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.'" And we discussed that last time. Paul says, "I don't stand here convicted of anything. In my own conscience, I am pure. I am free from any conviction...I don't know any sin. God is not speaking to me about some sin. I don't feel pangs of guilt over some sin." That's really a very powerful statement; because, in effect, if they're gonna come up with a crime, they're gonna have to come up with a crime that God doesn't even know about...or else God would be convicting him. That's what he's saying.
"I have lived in good conscience. Everything that I've ever done, I've done conscientiously toward God, and that hasn't changed since becoming a Christian. I'm still being obedient to what I believe is the voice of God. I'm still conscientious, and I sense no guilt and no pain for something that I have done out of line."...
That's a tremendous statement; and, for him to stand in front of the Sanhedrin, and, incidentally, the Sanhedrin is convinced that he is guilty of something. I mean the riot sort of murmuring that started the riot was, "He's against the people, against the law, against the temple, and that he's anti-Jewish." He's, if imaginable, he's against everything that he was raised to be for. He's a heretic. He's an apostate.
He stands up and says, "I'm guilty of absolutely nothing. I have done nothing for which my conscience pains me." Well, they couldn't stand that kind...to them, that was horrible egoism; and I think partly due to the fact that no Jew ever had a clear conscience if he was really, totally honest. You say, "Why?" Because the Old Testament system never purged the conscience, right? When you made a sacrifice, that took care of the sins you'd already committed. As soon as you committed another one, you were under the guilt again. That's why the book of Hebrews says in chapter 9 and in chapter 10 that Christ, in His perfect sacrifice, purged the conscience. Something that a Christian has that a Jew does not have, aside from salvation, is the absolute freedom from the guilt of unforgiven sin, because it's all forgiven; and so those Jews didn't understand the statement. They didn't understand how he could say, "I'm conscientious before God," when they thought he was an apostate, and if you wanna push the point, they couldn't understand at all how a guy could say, "I have a good conscience," even in its ultimate sense, because they never knew freedom from an evil conscience to have a clear conscience; and the reason they didn't know a clear conscience was because there was never an ultimate sacrifice for their sin. They were always under the guilt.
Well, the confrontation then led to conflict. Verse 2, "The high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite on the mouth." When Paul said that, I told you last week that the high priest told somebody to hit him in the mouth. The word smite is not a slap. It either means a blow with a club or with a fist. At the least, it was a smash in the mouth with a full fist. Now it is this point that becomes the interesting part of this passage. What is going on after this is the part that we wanna determine.
"Then said Paul unto him...in verse 3...'God shall smite thee, thou whited wall! Sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?'" The high priest had violated the law. Jewish law carefully safeguarded the rights of a man on trial. He hadn't even been accused of a crime, let alone proven to be guilty, and so the high priest was out of order in asking that Paul be punched in the mouth...That was completely out of order; and the Apostle Paul is saying, "God is going to punish you." He was calling on the vengeance of God. "God is going to punish you for sitting at the seat of authority in the law and violating the law. You are a hypocrite. You have brought me to be tried by the law, and you are in violation of it yourself. You whited wall!" And that's just a term for a hypocrite, hypocrisy. A wall that's all painted up nice, but if you leaned on it, it would fall over.
Now, I told you last week that I felt Paul was somewhat angry. He was indignant, and that I think that this was a mistake that he made. This was a sin. This was a violation. He lost his cool at this point, and I don't have a problem with that, because I think that's what humanity is like, and I think that sooner or later the old nature, the part of man which has its propensity toward sin is gonna surge out, and apparently, to me, does here in Paul's case.
Now, there are other interpretation of this; and I...I'm the first one to admit that. In fact, a friend suggested to me this week that maybe Paul was not volatile. Maybe he was not angry. Maybe he was not reactionary, but he merely saw this as an opportunity to gain a legal advantage. That when this high priest had violated the law...then he took advantage of that to gain a point over them...to sort of be able to put himself in the place of being the one who supported the law as over against them. It seemed to be a very good, legal move. The problem I have with that is, in the first place, he didn't know it was the high priest that said it; and in the second place, it wasn't convened really as a legal court...but lemme just take it further. I really feel comfortable with the fact that Paul was a little angry here, because of the fact that, in a legal situation, you don't have to call somebody a whited wall to make your point. You can just make your point. There would be an objection in court if you said to somebody on the stand, "Such and such and such and such, you whited wall." I mean, normally, that's not how you would handle a legal move, not if you were smart.
It was verbal abuse is unnecessary...even if the high priest was a whited wall, you don't say it. Not in legal protocol or procedure; and another reason that I feel that Paul was angry is the reaction of the crowd supports the idea that Paul's words were not the calculating words of a legal approach, but rather the fiery words of a man who reacted to all that he'd endured. Verse 4, watch. "And they that stood by said, 'Revilest thou God's high priest?'" You say, "In what sense was this guy God's high priest? He was Satan's man." He was God's high priest in the sense that he sat in the seat that God had ordained to be the seat of rule in Israel. His position was a God-ordained position. His person was Satan-oriented and motivated; but the position was the God-ordained position.
And notice what they said. Here's the key word. Whatever Paul's tone of voice, whatever his attitude was toward this person, they interpreted it as reviling, okay? Whatever it was, they called it reviling. Well, the thing we wanna determine then is what is reviling. Loydahrao is an interesting word, and I did a word study on it. This is what I found out. Kiddle, which is a very comprehensive series of volumes dealing with Greek meanings, says the word reviled means to remonstrate in anger... Now that is the compilation of all of its meanings reduced to the simplest term. To revile in anger. It can be translated to abuse, to slander, to insult, to curse, and to blaspheme. It is used four times in the New Testament. Once here, another time in John 9:28, when the Jews insulted and mocked the blind man who had been made to see by Jesus. It is used in 1 Corinthians 4:12 to mean the opposite of blessing. What is the opposite of blessing? Cursing. It is used in 1 Peter 2:23 to refer to the mocking and spitting abuse that was put against Jesus at the crucifixion. In all four of its verb meanings in the New Testament, it means cursing, mocking, insulting, abusing, including spitting and anything else.
Now, it is used in the noun form twice. In its two noun uses, it appears in the two lists in 1 Corinthians 5 and 1 Corinthians 6, lists of vices characteristic of unregenerate men who will not inherit the Kingdom. It then has two adjective meanings. One of those in 1 Timothy 5:14 tells us that Satan does it. The other one is 1 Peter 3:9 says Christians aren't to do it. You take all those eight possible meanings, and they all mean the same thing. The crowd said, "Paul, you have slandered, abused. You have remonstrated in anger. You have blasphemed the high priest. They read Paul's attitude as anger, as mockery, not as just a calculated legal move.
So from the standpoint of that word, I think we're fair in saying that Paul here had failed, and they saw that; and let's face it, if you're on trial in front of a court, and you're gonna be tried by the law, you're pretty dumb to violate the law right in court; but that's what he did. He blew his cork at that point and was in violation of the law; and they said, "Are you reviling God's high priest?" You say, "Was that a big deal?" Yes, it was a big deal. You just didn't do that. When God set up His economy, His theocracy, you can go back to Deuteronomy chapter 17, I'll just read it to you. "God ordained authority in Israel." There has to be authority. You know, that even a bad government is better than no government? The worst government is better than no government.
God has leaders. A bad leader is worse than no leader? No. No leader is worse than a bad leader. God ordains authority and submission, and God knows that there are gonna be bad leaders and bad governments and bad high priests and...and bad judges, and God still said to Israel, "You submit," because submission is the principle that keeps the thing together; and that judge or that priest or that leader will pay for his own failure. He is accountable to God. You're accountable to be submissive to him unless, of course, he makes you do something in direct violation to God.
But here, interesting thing, in Deuteronomy 17:8, God first gave the pattern, "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, then come to this place which I will choose." Now verse 9. "And come to the priests, the Levites, and the judge who shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment." God set up a court, a law where they could go and...and resolve the problems they couldn't resolve among themselves. "And thou shalt do according the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall show thee; thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee." Obey them.
"According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee to the right hand or the left. And the man who will do presumptuously, and not hearken to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and you shall put that evil away from Israel." You can stone the man if he disobeys the decision of the court. You don't speak a word, and you don't disobey the one God has set up to be judge or priest. Both judge and priest came together in the high priest, who was the ruling man in the Sanhedrin. He was both judge and high priest.
So when Paul spoke that way to the high priest, he did stand in violation. The high priest had no right to inflict punishment on him, but he had no right to react the way he did, because he was taking an action that violated the principle that God had ordained, the principle that goes with that office.
You say, "But the man was a crumb. The guy was no good. He was a terrible person." That's not the point. The office was God-ordained. I think you'd find it interesting sometime if you'll look up Exodus 21:6, Exodus 22:8 and 9, and Psalm 82:1. You'll find that the...the name of God, Elohim, is also the title of the judges in those passages. God actually called certain judges in His land gods, because they stood as His place of authority and representation of the law and, in that sense, represented Him. So a man who held a sacred position was not to be desecrated or slandered or cursed, but a man was to submit to that, because it was a God-ordained place, even though the man was satanic.
Now, of course, he had to pay for his own consequences. Paul was right when he said God was gonna smite you, because he had violated the whole role of the high priest; but look what Paul's attitude was. This is what's so beautiful. Paul, I think, had erred; but what's his attitude? Now, you know, just take it from a human standpoint. What would be my response? I would've said, "God shall smite you, you whited wall!" And in my mind I woulda said, "Boy, that's giving it to him, MacArthur. Shoot, beautiful shot." And then they would've said, "Revilest thou the high priest so," and I woulda said, "You're right, I reviled him...Why, he deserved it. He had no right to say what he said and command to be done what was done. He's a hypocrite, and so are all the rest of ya."...
You say, "Well, I wouldn't have done that." But you'd do something like that, so do I. What happens when somebody comes to you and says, "You did such and such wrong." What's your reaction? "Well, you're not perfect, either...You're not so hot. I've seen you do a lot of things, too." That's defensiveness. That's where you retaliate in defense. You can't just accept the responsibility for your sin and bow under the Word of God. You've gotta say, "Well, yeah, you're not so perfect. What about what you do?"
That's not what Paul did. He was too mature for that. He was too spiritually-minded to respond like that. You know what he did? He submitted to the Word of God and apologized, and you know something? That was the spiritual thing to do, because he had violated the law. Even though in nine out of ten times you would look at that, and you'd say, "He was right to say what he said." But look at verse 5. "Then said Paul, 'I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written: 'Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.'" He says, "Hey, I didn't realize I was reviling the high priest, because the Word of God says," and he quotes Exodus 22:28. He says, "Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people."
You know what he did? He condemned himself in front of that whole court. He said, "I've sinned. I'm sorry."...You notice he doesn't play ignorant? He doesn't say, "Well, how did I know it was the high priest? I didn't know it was the high priest. I thought it was just any old...I didn't know that. You can't blame me." You know what he said in effect? He said, "I should've found out before I mouthed off. It's my fault."...
Friends, I'm excited about the fact that Paul admitted he did wrong. Boy, that's a hard thing to do, isn't it? Hard thing to do, especially if you have to do it publicly. Here he is in face of all of his enemies, and he confesses to them that he's in violation of God's Word. Talk about a legal blunder, that's one, to be standing before a court of law breaking the law. The old man had just come to the fore, just whooom.
Lemme tell you something. The next best thing to not sinning at all is to confess it immediately when you've done it. Did you get that? The next best thing to not sinning at all is to confess it the moment you've done it and submit to the authority of the Word of God and turn from it. That's what Paul did. You see, his humanity when he burst out. You see his spirituality when immediately he caught himself in the sin and opening, publicly confessed his sin and turned from it. That's spirituality.
Christian, if you would deal with sin in your life that way, you'd save yourself a lot of chastisement. Do you know that? That's what 1 Corinthians 11:31 means when it says, "If we judged ourselves, we would not be...what?...judged." In other words, if we would take care of our own sin, we wouldn't have to be subject to the chastening of God to whip us into shape. Now let's face it. You're gonna sin...and I'm gonna sin, and we're gonna fail, and we're gonna transgress God's law; but the next best thing to not sinning is to immediately deal with that sin and accept the total responsibility for that sin, repent from that sin, submit to the Word of God, and go from there; and if you don't do that, then your sin will continue...
Listen to this. Don't ever think of your sin in relation to how bad other people are. Did you hear that? Do you know why? 'Cause you can always find some worse ones. You can say, "Well, I know I did that, but, boy, look, did you ever hear what she did?" Don't ever think of your sin in relation to how bad others are. Always think of your sin in relation to how holy God is. My sin is only to be compared with the absolute holiness of God, and my submission to His Word is what He asks, not comparing myself with how bad others are. Paul didn't say, "Well, you forced me into it." Paul didn't say, "Well, you deserved it." Paul said, "I'm sorry I sinned. I didn't know he was the high priest. I stand in violation of the Word of God."
Friends, that's a great man. That's a humble man. God help me to be so and you. Now, it's interesting I think to see that Paul said, "I didn't know he was the high priest." You say, "Well, how ignorant can a guy be? What do you mean you don't know it's the high priest?" I told you last week that I thought it was important that they convened the session in the Fort Antonia, and I don't think that Claudius Lysias wanted to turn Paul over to the Jews and have them take him over to where they usually met, because it could start another riot, so he wanted to keep custody. So he brought the Sanhedrin to Fort Antonia. I think it's best to see that's what the text is saying in verse 30 of 22; and so here they wouldn't be in their normal configuration. They wouldn't be seated with the high priest in his special seat. They would just be together in a mass milling around; and since it was an informally called session, the high priest wouldn't have his special robes on. So it is very likely that, because of that, he was unrecognizable and that the voice just came out of the mass of 71 people there. In addition to that, it is very possible that Paul had poor eyesight, isn't it?
You remember in Galatians, he writes about how large a letter I have written unto you, and the Greek is with what large letters? One of the possibilities of that is that it could be...refer to poor eyesight, among others; but he says in Galatians 4:15, he says, "You and I had such a good relationship that you would've plucked out your eyes and given 'em to me." That may be an indication that he had a eye problem, and had there been transplants possible, they would've afforded him the eyes. So it may have been that he had an eye problem. He just couldn't see that well. I think it's probably best to assume that that's possible, but that likely they were mixed together without their formal robes on. He wouldn't have been able to tell who it was.
But, friends, he doesn't claim ignorance. He doesn't say, "Well, I didn't know it was the high priest, so I am not to blame." He says, "I didn't know it was the high priest, and I'm still to blame for my ignorance. I should've found out." God is so honored, and you will find yourself spiritually minded and growing when you are willing to take that approach to your sin. The prodigal son came home, and he says to his father, "I have sinned against God, against you, against heaven, and you, Father, period." He didn't say, "Dad, you drove me out. Gave everything to my crummy brother, and I know I made some mistakes, but, man, you made it tough." No, he didn't mess around with all that. He just said, "I did it, and that's it."
Thief on the cross looked over, and he said, "We, indeed, suffer justly." Period, paragraph, and that's the one that went to be with Jesus. God is honored when we acknowledge sin and turn from it. Your sin is only to be seen in the light of a comparison of the holiness of God.
All right, from confrontation to conflict. Now we come to conquest. Verses 6 to 10. this is amazing. The conflict turns into a victory. You say, "How in the world did he ever get a victory outta that?" Paul has just not only been brought before a group that hates him to begin with, his confrontation was so bold that it made them furious, and now he's violated the law, and they're yelling at him about reviling the high priest. He is really in over his head.
Watch what he does. The Spirit of God has given this man such wisdom. It staggers you. He's there in verse 6. Paul looks at the crowd, and he says to himself, "Humph, there are Sadducees here and Pharisees here." Now, the Sanhedrin was divided into these two groups. The Sanhedrin was composed of priests, Sadducees, scribes, elders. For the most part, the priestly families, the high priestly families were Sadducees. In Jewish theology, there were basically three sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. Essenes were kinda the far out people. They...they were the ones that lived down in the...near the Dead Sea in Qumran, the bookworm types, the esthetics, the...the monastics; but the Pharisees and the Sadducees were in the middle of the maelstrom of life. The Pharisees were the super-legalists. They were the supernaturalists. They believed in miracles, and they believed in the literal interpretation of Scripture. The Sadducees were the rationalists. They threw out the miracles. They were the liberals of the day. The Pharisees were like ultraconservative, super-duper fundamentalists.
You know the definition of a fundamentalist like that. No fun, too much dam, and not enough mental. I mean they were just...they were condemning, see. They were on the extreme end of the legalist, literalist end. On the other end of the thing were the Sadducees. They were the far outs. They were the liberals. They were the...the watered-down, anti-supernaturalists. But those were the two factions that dominated.
The Pharisees were the majority. The Sadducees, the minority; but as the minority, they had the control, because they were the priestly family. So Paul looks at the Sanhedrin, a group he knows well, because he was a member; and he perceives again, that the groups are there. Pharisees and Sadducees. Now, these people got along only when they met together in the Sanhedrin. The rest of the time, they fought like cats and dogs.
Most of the time, the Pharisees kind've can overrule, because they had more people; and they would win the vote; but there was a terrible friction between the Pharisees and Sadducees. The only two things they ever agreed on that I could find in the New Testament was get rid of Jesus and get rid of Paul. Apart from that, they disagreed on everything; and so Paul looks 'em over, and he knows there's not a chance for a fair trial, and watch what he does. He says, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee," and immediately alienates the whole Sadducee group, just like that. But the reaction of the Pharisees is, "You hear that? This guy can't be too bad. He's a traditional Pharisee. His father was a Pharisee."
"And I am one who believes in the hope and resurrection from the dead. And that's why I've been called here into question!" Now, that is interesting, because immediately, verse 7, "When he had said that, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided." A fight started. You say, "What are they fighting about?"
"The Sadducees say there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees confessed both - both resurrection and angels and spirits." So you know what Paul did? He just turned the whole Sanhedrin on itself. Revolution. Civil war. He's just calmly stood there while they started the fight. You see, the real issue at stake was Paul had given his testimony; and Paul declared in his testimony that he was going down the Damascus Road and who spoke to him? Jesus of Nazareth. Well, if Jesus of Nazareth spoke to him, that meant Jesus of Nazareth was alive, right? So what was that saying? Resurrection.
Later on he said in the temple when he was giving his testimony in chapter 22, "In the temple, the Lord came to me, too." So he had said, "Twice the resurrected Christ and I have been together." And, you know, that was the part of his message that infuriated the mob. Remember? He said, "Jesus came to me and told me to go to the Gentiles," and they just blew their cork; and he comes in; and, of course, there were some other questions; but he goes right to the issue. He says, "The real issue here, folks, is I happen to believe in resurrection...
Well, of course, now he's won the Pharisees over by being a Pharisee. Now he's got 'em really on his side, because he believes in the resurrection. It's a funny thing. All these years, 30 years in between, they had denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ; and here was the greatest preacher who ever lived on the resurrection of Jesus Christ; and they're on his team now, because he happened to ring their chimes on that particular chord.
And, you know, they were much more concerned about the ultimate theological debate going on, and they debated about a lotta things. The Pharisees were Calvinists. They believe in absolute sovereignty. The Sadducees were Armenians. They didn't know it yet, because those guys hadn't come along. But the Sadducees believed in free will, and so they used to always argue about predestination and free will. They were at the opposite ends constantly; and so Paul just turned 'em into each other, and they were having this big fight. The whole issue, really, was the resurrection. Paul preached the resurrection. That's what people got upset about. He preached that Jesus was alive, that Jesus had talked with him twice, and this is what infuriated everybody. It becomes the issue later on, incidentally, too.
Over in chapter 24, he's talking there to Felix, and he brings up the same thing in verse 21. He said, "Except it be for this one thing, I cried standing among them: 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called in question.'" So, again, this whole idea of preaching the resurrection, announcing Christ was alive. It just infuriated the people, and that's one of the reasons they wanted to get Paul; and so he just doesn't mention the resurrection of Jesus. That wouldn't work out real well at this point. That might turn them against him, so he just says, 'I believe in the hope and resurrection of the dead, and that's why I've been called in question." And the reaction of a Pharisee would be, "Well, nothing wrong with believing that. That's solid doctrine."...
The Sadducees say there is no resurrection nor angels nor spirit. The Sadducees denied all angels. They denied spirit in the sense that they denied the spiritual part of a man. They denied that the soul lived after the body. They said, "The body dies. The soul dies. It's all over with. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There's no nothing." Sadducees started as a reaction to Phariseeism. They reacted to the Pharisees' concept of rewards for service, and that reaction which started as a reaction against rewards for service, became, went all the way to the extreme of denying any kind of rewards; and the next thing they had no afterlife, and then they denied the miracles; then they denied the supernatural and the whole works. So they're at each others' throat.
Paul calmly stands there. Watch what happens. Verse 9, "And there arose a great cry, and the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party arose and contended sharply." Here they're arguing now. Do you know that those debates were so hot that it was a great day when one of those groups won a theological debate over the other one, and they used to hold a feast when they won it...and here they are going at it like crazy, and the scribes started contending sharply, and they said, "We find no evil in this man." Believe that? And Paul's just standing there, you know.
You see, they were willing to let Paul off the hook in order to make their theological point against the Sadducees. That give you an idea of the antagonism. "And what if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him?" Ah, that's interesting. The last phrase doesn't appear in the best manuscripts. It stops right there. Do you know notice that Paul had said that it wasn't a spirit or an angel that had spoken to him. It was who? Jesus Christ. But they wouldn't accept that; but what did they think? Maybe it was an angel or a spirit. You see how they changed the testimony to fit their theology? But they wanted to drag that part of their theology in, too, 'cause that's against the Sadducees. So they said, "What if an angel or a spirit spoke unto him?" And the Sadducees woulda said, "There aren't any angels or spirits. How many times do we have to go over this?" And away they would go.
So he kept pounding right on the issues of their theology. What happened? Verse 10, "And there arose such a great dissension," the word is clamor. They were really going at it, full bore, discord, a hassle, a melee, shouting out loud, violence. "And there rose a great dissension, the chief captain," poor guy. By this time, he musta been fit to be tied. He couldn't get any kind of answer out of anything. Every time he tried to get an accusation against Paul, he couldn't get it. Now the whole Jewish court's fighting each other, and Paul's still standing there with no accusation.
Well, "He was afraid lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them." Probably, they closed in around him, and the Sadducees were yanking one way, and the Pharisees were yanking the other way. He's all right. No, he's not, and away they were going, see. "He commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them." They had to rescue Paul again. Romans to the rescue. The second time in two chapters. Amazing, God has superintended them. The whole of the nation of Israel's thrown into confusion, and he's got the whole Roman army on the side of Paul.
You know, you start reading Romans 8 with this in mind, and you'll know what it means when it says, "It's very difficult to lay any charge to God's elect." I mean when God has justified somebody, you just try and trump up a charge. It's pretty tough, and here the scribes say, "We find nothing wrong with the man." Amazing. Amazing turn of events. So Claudius Lysias is still scratching his head, saying, "I still don't know what this guy's done. I can't find out." So "They brought him by force and brought him into the barracks."
And conquest. We see Paul leaving majestically the victor, and they're still there fighting over their theology...What happens? Paul is put in the barracks for the night. We come to the consolation, verse 11, watch this. "The night following, the Lord stood by him." Isn't that good? Five times in Paul's life the Lord Jesus came to him Himself. This is one of those five. Always at times of crisis, the Lord stood by him. He was alone in the cell. Maybe he was saying, "Carest Thou not that I perish?" maybe he was saying, "Lord, seems as though You've been all gone a while. Lord, have You forgotten me?"
You know, you can have those kind of moods when you've been through something like that easy. It wasn't enough for the Lord to just remind him of a few principles. Jesus came to him. Jesus came and stood by him and He...He gave him three little words. "Consolation, commendation, and confidence." Watch. Consolation. "The Lord stood by him and said, 'Cheer up, Paul." Can't you imagine you're sitting there and, all of a sudden, you hear Jesus say, "Cheer up, Paul." You know, you would, wouldn't ya?
Do you believe the Lord is that close to us? The Bible says the Holy Spirit dwells where? In us. Jesus said, "I may be going away from earth, but I'll never leave you forsaken. Lo, I'm with you always." The Lord stood by him, consolation. God is a God of comfort. Boy, one of the things you see in Paul is he knew this. That man went from one trial to the next, but he knew the comfort of God. Listen to what he wrote to the Corinthians. This is in the midst of pain and being run from one place to the other by people who hated him. "Blessed be God...2 Corinthians 1:3...even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort...listen...who comforteth us in all our tribulation." He says, "I never go through anything that God doesn't comfort me."
"And He does it that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God." God comforts me, so that I can teach you about God's comfort. "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your comfort. Whether we be comforted, it is for your comfort." He says, "God keeps comforting me in every trial in order that I might teach you about His comfort."
In 2 Corinthians 7 verse 4, "I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation...verse 5...When we were in Macedonia, our flesh had no rest. We were troubled on every side: without fightings, within fears. Nevertheless God, who comforts those that are cast down, comforted us." God always comforts His own. "Carest Thou not?" "Yes, I care."
And He came into that little cell that night and stilled the waves, calmed the sea. "Cheer up, Paul." Not a lotta theology in that, is there? Didn't give him a great doctrinal lecture. He just said, "Cheer up. I'm here. I'm here." Do you know what Paul said in Philippians? He said this. "Be anxious for nothing." Why? "The Lord is at hand." Isn't that good? "I'm here, cheer up." Consolation.
Second thing was commendation. I love this. He said, "Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem." You know, the word testify means giving full witness. He said, "Paul, you did the job. Cheer up. You finished your work here. You testified of Me in Jerusalem. You did what I wanted." The word means full testimony. "You gave the complete testimony."...His thoughts could've been at that split second, "Does that mean it's over?" Then He gives him confidence. "And so must you also bear witness...where?...at Rome." I imagine he just came right up off the floor. "I'm gonna get to go to Rome." That's confidence. The Lord just gave him that promise.
Do you think God cares for you? God came to Paul, and He gave him thanks for the past, comfort for the present, assurance for the future. He's the God all comfort. I've seen Him comfort many people. I've seen Him comfort in my own life, give consolation. I know you have. In the midst of any trial, He cares. Cast your care on Him. Let's pray.
Thank You, Lord, for teaching us again this hour of Your comfort. Thank You for what we've learned and seen in this man, how You work. We praise You for just the joy that is ours, as we see You standing by thanking us for what we've done, giving us confidence for the future service that awaits us. As we close with the singing of a hymn, may it express that which is in our hearts. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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As a citizen of Italy and as a person who is familiar with the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) and the proposals presented to that body, I must express my deep disappointment at parts of the Resolution on this topic that was adopted by the European Parliament.
The EU Resolution seems to be based on a flawed understanding of WCIT and of ITU.
I personally don't understand why European parliamentarians did not obtain correct information – either directly from the ITU Secretariat – or from their Member State representatives, who are familiar with WCIT-12 and ITU.
An example of this flawed understanding presented in the Resolution adopted by the EU Parliament states that the EU "Regrets the lack of transparency and inclusiveness surrounding the negotiations for WCIT-12, given that the outcomes of this meeting could substantially affect the public interest".
However, it is important to point out that WCIT is inclusive of 193 national delegations which are participating in WCIT-12. Private sector companies and civil society organizations have also registered to attend WCIT-12 in large numbers.
Everyone attending WCIT-12 is free to lobby for their specific positions.
Added to this, in the run-up to the conference, the ITU Secretariat created a platform to allow any individual, civil society player or company to make its views known.
The very thorough and inclusive preparatory process leading up to the WCIT-12 has been completely transparent. Every European parliamentarian could have obtained all the documents from their own government, or from the European Commission.
At ITU, transparency is achieved at the national level, through national consultations in national languages. Surely this process is far more inclusive than just posting an English language text on a web page?
The Resolution also states that the EU "believes that ITU, or any other single, centralized international institution, is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority over either Internet governance or Internet traffic flow" and "believes that, as a consequence of some of the proposals presented, ITU itself could become the ruling power over aspects of the internet which could end the present bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model".
In response to this claim by the EU, it is important to note that ITU's mandate in the Internet is laid down by the Plenipotentiary Conference Resolutions which were agreed to by consensus in 2010.
Nothing can be agreed at WCIT-12 to change or negate this mandate.
In addition to this point, no proposals exist to give more power to ITU as an institution, which does not have any regulatory authority over any networks whatsoever.
Networks are regulated by national governments, not by ITU – which is a multi-stakeholder, bottom-up organization.
The Resolution claims that "some ITR reform proposals being presented by ITU member states would negatively impact … the free flow of information online".
However, freedom of expression and the right to communicate are already enshrined in many UN and international treaties that ITU has taken into account in the establishment of its Constitution and Convention, and also its mandate by the Plenipotentiary Conference, which is the Supreme Governing Body of ITU.
These treaties include Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These Articles – as well as Article 33 and 34 of the ITU Constitution – clearly establish the right to communication and the limits that governments can impose on those rights.
Since the ITU Constitution prevails over the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), nothing in the ITRs has the power to result in a reduction of freedom to communicate.
The Resolution also indicates concern that "ITU reform proposals include the establishment of new profit mechanisms that could seriously threaten the open and competitive nature of the Internet, driving up prices, hampering innovation and limiting access; recalls that the internet should remain free and open".
But in reality, there is a common goal of fostering innovation and driving down prices, in particular for users in developing countries. A revised treaty can help harness the power of ICTs to deliver social and economic benefits in every nation on earth, including across every sector.
ITU's goal is to continue enabling the Internet, as it has done since 1988.
It is imperative that the Internet is open for all people, in order to continue to leverage the social and economic benefits of access to information and knowledge.
Therefore it is unfortunate and disappointing to see that the European Parliament appears to base its Resolution on misleading and erroneous conjecture put forth by certain companies who are defending their commercial interests, in particular when those companies are not even European companies.
Richard Hill was born and partly raised in Italy. He has been working on the WCIT preparatory process since 2004. Prior to joining ITU in 2001, Richard managed IT and network infrastructure for a mobile telecommunications operator, IT systems for the University of Geneva, and performed various functions at Hewlett-Packard, including being part of the team that rolled out the internal Internet network. He holds a BS in Mathematics from MIT and a PhD in Statistics from Harvard.
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Apples and Bourbon
Apples and Bourbon
By Elad Zvi, Co-Founder, Bar-Lab
This cocktail is great anytime of the year and is also very food-friendly. The apple-infused Maker's Mark® Bourbon gives it a sweetness accented by the thyme honey.
- 1-3/4 parts Maker's Mark® Bourbon infused with apples
- 1/2 part Aperol
- 3/4 part lemon juice
- 1/2 part thyme honey
- Dash maple bitters
- Thyme sprig and apple slice for garnish
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- Shake vigorously.
- Strain over ice into a rocks glass.
- Garnish with thyme sprig and apple slice.
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Sherri Saum Welcomes Twin Sons John Rubén and Michael Luís
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Sherri Saum is a new mom — times two!
The Fosters actress welcomed twin boys with her husband Kamar de los Reyes in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 13, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Son John Rubén weighed 5 lbs., 7 oz., while his brother Michael Luís weighed in at 5 lbs., 15 oz.
"Everyone is healthy and strong and Sherri and Kamar are over the moon!" her rep tells PEOPLE.
After Saum, 39, announced she was expecting twins with de los Reyes, her Fosters costar let it slip to PEOPLE that the babies were boys.
In March, the mom-to-be was showered with love during a ladies-only get-together to celebrate the pending arrivals.
"[They're] my first children, so I'm not going to know anything different. It's going to be easy and breezy," she told PEOPLE in February.
The twitter-patter of four new feet
Welcome to the world John Rubén and Michael Luis!
— Sherri Saum (@SherriSaum1) May 14, 2014
My boys are here! Michael Luis and John Rubén. So amazing! @SherriSaum1 was amazing! So in love!
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Kcal 210 Fat 12.0g Carbs 23.0g
I dont quite know why its taken me so long to get round to reviewing one of Britain's most iconic brands of chocolate...but by popular request today I went about putting that right and sampled the most famous milk chocolate and orange combination out there...yes...Terry's Chocolate Orange.
Terry's Chocolate Orange tends to really come into its own around Christmas time but during the rest of the year its also pretty readily avalible. Im basing todays review on the 40g bar which split into 6 segments...it equated to 40.0g and did a perfectly good job of setting aside my hunger at the time...by the sixth segment I felt like I had my fill of the flavour.
I was genuiney very impressed by the look of the bar. The packaging was a fair in design though hardly original and almost identical from Mcvities Jaffa Cakes (Take a look above and try tell me otherwise!!!!!). The bar itself looked great - the segment design not only looked class and unique but was a nice way to split it into sizeable mouth size pieces - good work here by Kraft.
As soon as I opened the wrapper and segmented the bar a fruity sweet orangey smell was extremely evident - it smelt refreshing and pretty appertising though a tiny bit artifical. The back of pack had a pretty bold statement in that it claimed the bar was flavoured with 'Real Orange'....in actual fact just like the Montezuma's "Orangutang" I reviewed the other day the flavour was achieved using 'orange oil'....so not real orange really.
Although solid milk chocolate the inside of the bar seemed to have a slightly softer texture. Each segment was shaped perfectly to slowly melt on the tongue and really helped achieve a nice smooth and consistant taste. The orange flavour of the bar was strong but never overbearing...it gave each segment a nice refreshing taste that for my liking was just the right strength and and concentration. The milk chocolate as I said was glorious in texture though lacked a real difinitive cocoa flavour that would have really made this bar standout. The taste of the chocolate was very sweet and by the fifth segment its flavour was starting to become overly so and and verging on sickly.
Overall this bar is a genuinely a great tasting one in moderation. This bar has scored higher than the Montezuma's "Orangutang" and costs a fraction of the price at 40p compared to £1.20 for the Montezuma's. Its orange flavour was among the best I have tried on Chocolate Mission along with the Lindor Orange. The chocolate was a bit on the sweet side and lacking in cocoa strength though the orange flavour more than made up for this as its fresh fruityness was by far and away the dominating flavour. Terry' Chocolate Orange is a brand that will stay with us a long time..its affordable, unique, great looking chocolate...a sure fire winner if your a fan of chocolate orange.
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text: MainAfricaIn Kenya, A Shunned Young Man Becomes a Beloved, Talented Coach Listen In Kenya, A Shunned Young Man Becomes a Beloved, Talented CoachThomas Gathu was born in Kenya at a time when children with intellectual disabilities were usually shunned, hidden – or worse. Yet his family saw that he had special gifts. When Thomas found Special Olympics, those gifts became talents. A Painful ChildhoodHis family tried to help him learn. But when he started his schooling, his life became a nightmare. Thomas was punished and insulted because he was slow to write and learn. He performed well below other children. Teachers did not want to try to teach him. Students made fun of him. His family also suffered from the mockery. The head of the school eventually recommended that his parents send him away, which was hard on everyone. But soon, he found Special Olympics and whole new paths to success opened up.Runner, Teacher, CoachThomas Gathu overcame problems as a child to grow up a well-loved coach and Special Olympics gold medalist.Thomas Gathu could run – and ran fast. He'd never really tried to race before! He worked, trained and learned perseverance through Special Olympics. He gained confidence, as he perfected his new skills. Soon, other people saw what he could do – and how he could do some things even better than they could. Their prejudices about people with intellectual disabilities started to fall away. Thomas was proof of how many hidden talents people with disabilities can have. Through Special Olympics, Thomas learned discipline, gained physical strength and even began to build leadership skills. Now a grown man, Thomas has been able to work as a physical education teacher. He has served as a spokesman for people with intellectual disabilities, even addressing a gathering of 350,000 people in Paris. He has also become a beloved coach with Special Olympics Kenya, where the younger athletes see him as a true role model who understands what they are going through.A Coach's RegimenToday, he has a message to families of people with disabilities: "Do not hide your special children. They are part of us," he says. "Denying them play, exposure and association is violating their basic human rights." Thomas teaches his athletes to strive for excellence – get out of the blocks fast and finish strongly. That's because he believes most races are won off the start or with a strong finishing kick. And Thomas is out there, showing them what to do, running alongside his athletes to encourage them each step of the way. His athletes alternate days between running hills for strength and endurance and running short sprints to increase speed and explosiveness out of the blocks. He adds weight training into the regimen, especially for the sprinters so they can use their strength to get a good start in the race. Nutrition is another key factor, especially in Kenya, so that is something else that Thomas teaches. He encourages a high intake of milk for bone strength, and foods low in fat for energy.A New WorldThomas gives much of the credit for his success to his mother, who never gave up on him, as well as his father. "My papa always told me that to do well, you have to work hard -- because challenges will always be there." But he also is appreciative of the new world that Special Olympics opened up for him, giving him hope when he had so little.


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Name: Andy Cohen
Game: "New Year's Eve or Deformed?"
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Game: For A Dollar
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Oh dear...
It looks like a reasonable jersey but the use of 'CX' implies that the creative talents of the marketing department have been allowed to hold sway.
It's for riding to the cafe, not racing cross in.
...and the price
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Mat was impressed with the Cervo Rosso Strada full zip jersey that he tested back in the summer, and now with the temperature plummeting as we careen into winter, I've been testing the Cervo Rosso Strada CX long sleeve jersey.
It seems there's always room for new clothing manufacturers in cycling and Cervo Rosso is one of the newest. They're based in Switzerland and most of their clothing is actually made in Italy. The CX is their newest garment and has all the credentials for a hard-working autumn jersey.
Style is a word bandied around all too often but in this case I think it's fully justified. A look at their website reveals that most of the range, like the CX jersey here, adheres strongly to the current trend: mostly black with a few white and red highlights. Nothing wrong with that, I like it the clean look and classic approach.
So I've been wearing this jersey a lot in the last couple of weeks, and it's been the perfect partner for the cooler temperatures we're facing at the moment. Worn over a short sleeve merino base layer, with an emergency gilet rolled up in one of the three rear pockets, it has coped well with everything from the early morning chill to higher mid-day temperatures.
Three fabrics are used to construct the jersey. The majority of it utilises TechnoWool (48% laminated wool fibers & 52% Polyester) which in essence is very similar to smart wool. The fibres are laminated and waterproofed which, while we didn't test it in the rain, does give an impressive level of wind resistance. On rides when I thought I might need a windproof gilet I would return home with the gilet still rolled up in my pocket.
To this Cervo Rosso have added extra warmth with brushed polyester chest hoops and side panels. They're also stretchy which benefits the fit as it has more give. An elasticated polyester is used at the collar and cuffs.
Pulling the top on for the first time reveals it is luxuriously soft next to the skin of bare arms. Those long elasticated cuffs ensure no chill air can drift up the arms, but they could be an inch longer – I found the cuffs slide up the wrist just a little bit.
I tend to struggle finding jerseys that really fit well. In the medium I tested the fit is just about perfect. Cervo Rosso describe the fit as 'race cut' which is to say it's close fitting and conforms closely to the body. If you're not sure about the sizing it's definitely worth checking the size chart on the website. Or better still trying one on first. The medium is a proper medium.
The arms are slim and fitted and it sits snugly around the torso. There's perhaps a hint of excess material around the hip that could be improved just a little. The pockets, even when laden, stay pretty well in place and don't sag too much, helped with a silicone stripe on the hem. The fit around the shoulders is comfortable.
You get three pockets and they're well sized, with a small rectangle of reflective material on the middle pocket. The middle pocket has a horizontal zip at the side to access a partition of the main pocket, but the mesh fabric pulled away at the seam rendering the zipped pocket unusable.
I've had a lot of comments pertaining to the looks of this top. It's not ground-breaking but has a racy appeal that I'm sure many people will like. It's a colour scheme that is likely to match most racing bikes too. Personally I really like how it looks, which contributes to how much I've been wearing it recently.
High quality jersey with a strong sense of style and impressive warmth for the autumn chill.
Make and model: Cervo Rosso Strada CX long sleeve jersey
Size tested: Medium
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Luxury cycling apparel is not just about how a product looks on a shop rack. For us at CR it also needs to perform as a high performance product should. Ride after ride and wash after wash.
With Italian craftsmanship and bodyfit tailoring, the NEW STRADA CX Long Sleeve Jersey raises the bar significantly when it comes to Performance, Functionality and Style.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Body constructed from TechnoWool (48% laminated wool fibers & 52% Polyester)
Brushed Polyester Chest Hoop and Side Panels
Rear Reinforced Tri - Pocket configuration
Full Zip
Made in Italy
The only blemish on the construction is the failure of the internal zipped pocket on the back.
Right now this is an ideal autumn layer for keeping the cold and wind at bay. Really impressed with how comfortable it is, especially next to bare arms.
I've been wearing it a lot recently in some truly mucky weather and it's still looking good. The rear zipped pocket has failed however.
The fabric is very soft next to the skin and the fit is excellent, with a snug fitted shape to it. And it's a proper medium too.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The fit and the style.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Rear zipped pocket needs improving.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Fix the zipped pocket and it's nearly perfect
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I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, touring, mtb,
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.


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Many parents don't realize that children and teens can suffer from depression. But they can. In fact, it is estimated that depression affects as many as one in eight adolescents in the United States. Symptoms of depression in teens can differ from those in adults, however. The following behaviors or conditions may be symptoms of depression in your teen. If your child displays any of these warning signs, call a pediatrician, mental health professional, school counselor, or the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433). Remember that depression is a treatable illness. But, if left undiagnosed and untreated, depression can lead to suicide, which is now the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year olds in the United States.
Sources: American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Provides information on the diagnosis, research and treatment of mental illnesses affecting children, adolescents and their families.
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Cook the Book: Simple, Perfect Chili
I have spent a happy, happy week cooking from Ree Drummond's The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Drummond has become a welcome and very pleasant presence in my house, especially when meal times roll around. Every single recipe that I have tested this week was not only incredibly delicious but very plentiful. The developed her recipes to feed a family of five and some hungry ranch hands, but my two-person household hasn't been this well fed in a while. The question of what's for dinner has turned into more of a what's not for dinner.
I made Simple, Perfect Chili a few nights ago—it's been feeding us ever since, and it only gets better. I made the chili using all of the optional ingredients listed in the recipe, but upon tasting it before putting in the beans, tomatoes, and jalapeño, I found that these ingredients are not really necessary. They do their part to bulk up the portion size, and add different textural components, but the all-meat chili is spectacular, possessing a richness that I've never encountered in any other chili recipe.
One of the secrets to this amazing chili is the addition of masa, a finely ground cornmeal flour common in Mexican and South American cooking. It acts as a thickening agent, but also lends a slight, very welcome hint of corn. Taking a lead from the masa, I was inspired to make a skillet of The Pioneer Woman's Skillet Cornbread. Both recipes were simple, pretty much perfect, and made enough leftovers to be enjoyed for many days to come.
- Yield:6 servings
- Rated:
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground oregano
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 pounds ground beef
- One 8-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup masa (corn flour, found in the Mexican section of many supermarkets)
Optional Ingredients
- 1 can pinto beans, drained
- 1 can kidney beans, drained
- 1 jalapeño, seeded and finely diced
- 1 can diced tomatoes and chilis (I use the Rotel brand)
For Serving
- Shredded cheddar cheese
- Chopped onion
- Fritos
Begin by measuring the spices: chopped garlic, oregano, cumin, cayenne, and chili powder.
Place the ground beef in a large pot and throw in the garlic.
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Käthe Kollwitz (German, Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, near Dresden)
Self-Portrait with Hand of Death, 1924
Signed and dated lower right: Käthe Kollwitz/1924
Charcoal on paper
23 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (60.6 x 47.9 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1944
This important finished drawing served as a point of departure for three prints--two lithographs and one woodcut--by Käthe Kollwitz. Her repeated use of the pose suggests that she considered it an accurate embodiment of herself and her state of mind, which had turned from introspective to severely depressed during the ten years after the death of her son in World War I.1
The drawing originated during a phase of illness and depression in 1923-24, when Kollwitz noted in her diary her deep discouragement and sense of all-encompassing failure: she felt unable to love, to work, to think, or even to enjoy the spring.2
The drawing exemplifies Kollwitz's lifelong conversation with death,3 which is represented here in the barely visible, shadowy hand touching the artist's shoulder. Among her numerous self-portraits, this drawing contains one of her most explicit personifications of the presence of death. In a lithograph and woodcut of the same year, which are based on this drawing, the hand of death is missing.4 In the Call of Death, a self-portrait lithograph of 1934, the hand of death again touches the artist's shoulder. Although oriented in a different direction from the drawing, the lithograph seems to represent the moment just after that depicted in the drawing, as the figure responds to the call of death by a slight turn of her upper body.5
Executed in litho pencil,6 the Oberlin drawing has a subtlety of line and shading that is largely lost in the stronger outlines of the lithographs and the sharp contrasts of black and white in the woodcut. In the drawing, the gesture is gentle, almost caressing; the faint hand of death is not skeletal and not at all demanding. Omitted entirely in the prints of 1924, the gesture becomes a more forceful tap on the shoulder in the Call of Death of 1934/35.
In the drawing, Kollwitz depicted herself resigned, with closed eyes, almost too exhausted to turn and see who is touching her shoulder, an attitude solidified and cast in more monumental form in the woodcut and lithograph of 1924. Her hands, disproportionally large with coarsely defined fingernails, are exaggerated even more in the lithograph, as if these instruments of artistic creation had become ugly and useless. The 1934 Call of Death is more sculptural in character, with solid outlines summing up the head and shoulders and reducing the face to an almost animalistic mask of fatigue and depression.
D. Hamburger
Work (C) 1998 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kust, Bonn
Käthe Kollwitz was born on 8 July 1867, the daughter of Karl Schmidt, a master mason and preacher of the free-religious community in Königsberg.7 In 1881-82, Kollwitz received her first art lessons from the engraver Rudolf Maurer in Königsberg and attended the School for Women Artists in Berlin, where she studied with the Swiss artist Karl Stauffer-Bern from 1885 until 1886. Influenced by Max Klinger's prints, she abandoned painting and turned to graphic art. She married Karl Kollwitz, a medical student, in 1891, and lived with him in Berlin, where she had direct contact with the industrial working class, who were her husband's patients and the subject matter of much of her work.
Kollwitz was also concerned with the interrelated themes of death, war, and maternal loss. Major works include the Weavers' Revolt (1895-98), a cycle of prints based on Gerhart Hauptmann's 1893 drama The Weavers; The Peasants' War (1908), a large-format cycle of prints that established her reputation as one of Germany's most important printmakers; a steady series of drawings published in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus; and posters such as her well-known War--Never Again! (1924). Kollwitz's professional success--marked by exhibitions in honor of her fiftieth birthday in 1917, and her appointment as professor at the Preussische Akademie der Künste in 1919--did not undermine her sense of social calling, reflected in works entitled War, Departure and Death, and Proletariat.
This affinity with socialist causes and communist politics led to the loss of her position and studio at the Akademie when the National Socialists assumed power in 1933. She was prohibited from exhibiting her work, and both her husband Karl and her son Hans were prevented from practicing medicine. Some of Kollwitz's work was included in Hitler's Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich in 1937. During the same year she finished her monumental sculpture Mother with Twins. Kollwitz died on 22 April 1945, after the loss of her husband, her grandson, her home, and studio, and the destruction of most of her printing plates.
General References
Prelinger, Elizabeth. Käthe Kollwitz. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Collection of the artist
With Galerie St. Etienne, New York (ca. 1940), from whom purchased in 1944 8
Iowa City, Art Department, State University of Iowa, 1951. Six Centuries of Master Drawings. Summer. Cat. no. 189.
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1954. Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum. 3 - 21 February. Cat. no. 74.
Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1956. Drawings and Watercolors from the Oberlin Collection. 11 March - 1 April. No cat.
The Arts Club of Chicago, 1966. Drawings 1916/1966. 28 February - 11 April. Cat. no. 52.
Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York, 1947, cat. no. 160, ill. p. 320.
Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks. Bern, 1955, p. 352, under cat. no. 192.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Catalogue of R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund Acquisitions." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (Winter 1959), cat. no. 60; no. 3 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 279.
Nagel, Otto. Die Selbstbildnisse der Käthe Kollwitz. Berlin, 1965, pl. 64.
Nagel, Otto. Käthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen. Berlin, 1972, cat. no. 1024.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, p. 45, fig. 81.
Bittner, Herbert. Käthe Kollwitz. Drawings. New York, 1967, cat. no. 102.
Thorson, Victoria. Great Drawings of All Time: The Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Redding, Conn., 1979, cat. no. 82.
Technical Data
Drawn with a litho pencil on ivory-colored wove paper, which was cut on all four edges (unevenly on the right side), this work is in good and stable condition. The paper is somewhat bleached by exposure to light in the image area and yellowed in the margins, where it was covered by the mat. The image is executed in quick, broad strokes; the facial features are delineated with heavier dark strokes with an almost paintlike build-up of the medium in the shadows of the outline. On the right margin there are scribbles indicating the artist's efforts to obtain the desired quality of line. The verso is marked up with black litho pencil smudges and slightly damaged by old gummed paper tape, abrasion, and adhesive residue.
1. The death of her son plunged Kollwitz into a long period of intense depression. She wrestled for seventeen years with plans for a memorial for him, completing the monumental sculpture, Mourning Parents (Military Cemetery at Diksmuide, Belgium) in 1932.
2. Otto Nagel, Die Selbstbildnisse der Käthe Kollwitz (Berlin, 1965), pp. 36-37.
3. From verbal communication with her sister Lise, quoted by Uwe Schneede, Käthe Kollwitz: Das zeichnerische Werk (Munich, 1981), p. 5.
4. Seated Woman with Propped Up Hand, lithograph, 1924, 48 x 41 cm; Self-Portrait, woodcut, 1924, 40 x 30 cm; August Klipstein, Käthe Kollwitz. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks (Bern, 1955), cat. nos. 192 and 202, respectively.
5. The Call of Death (pl. 8 from the Death series), lithograph, 1934-35, 38 x 38.3 cm; August Klipstein, Käthe Kollwitz. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks (Bern, 1955), cat. no. 263.
6. See conservation survey report by Moyna Stanton, Intermuseum Conservation Association, completed 3 November 1995.
7. Her maternal grandfather, Julius Rupp, had founded the first Protestant Free Religious Congregation in Germany, and with his sermons--especially the maxim "eine Gabe ist eine Aufgabe" (a talent is a challenge)--exerted a lasting influence on the artist.
8. Letter from Otto Kallir, Galerie St. Etienne, to Ellen Johnson, 18 December 1944: "Concerning the Kollwitz drawing: It comes directly from the artist and was sent to America shortly before the war began. It has never been in any other collection."


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Dunblane man appears in court over gun threats
A man has appeared in court accused of threatening to carry out a gun crazed massacre in Dunblane.
Thomas Robertson is said to have made remarks about shooting people during a visit at the local health center on April 3 in the Perthshire town.
Robertson who is 48yrs old, is also alleged to have said that he planned to stab Police Officers and even kill them by setting them on fire. He faces two charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner with fear and alarm to others.
Sheriff William Gallacher continued the case until January 8th for the identification of dates for a hearing into the relevancy and competency of the charges and continued Robertson's bail.
A pre-trial hearing at Falkirk Sheriff Court ahead of a jury trial presently set for January 13th 2014, Robertson pleaded not guilty to both charges.
In 1996 Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 primary children plus their teacher at the local school in Dunblane then shot himself after his firearms massacre. #4
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Man attacked staff with a traffic cone at petrol station
Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted with a traffic cone at a petrol station in Newcastle.
At around 12.05pm on Monday afternoon police received a report that a staff member at the Shell garage on the Great North Road in Gosforth had been assaulted with a traffic cone.
The male offender had filled up a motorcycle with fuel but was challenged by staff when it appeared that he would not pay for the fuel.
He became aggressive and then assaulted the staff member with a traffic cone before fleeing the scene on foot in the direction of The Three Mile Inn.
The victim of the assault was later taken to hospital with a suspected broken nose and cheekbone. It is also believed the motorcycle the offender left at the garage was stolen.
Enquiries into the incident are ongoing and police are now appealing for help from the public to identify the offender.
He is described as wearing all black with a white motorcycle helmet that had the visor down.
Officers also want to speak to any witnesses to the incident as there were a number of people on the garage forecourt who police have still not spoken to.
They are also keen to speak to any motorists who may have dash-cam footage showing the motorcycle in question.
Anyone who knows the man, or witnessed the incident on Monday, is encouraged to contact police on 101 quoting log 423 13/08/18 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
You can also email the OIC on [email protected] or report online at www.northumbria.police.uk/contact.
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Women takes wrong turn at level crossing sparking police response
A woman has brought Metro trains to a standstill after a woman took a wrong turn at a level crossing and drove on the tracks.
How on earth she managed to do that we will never know, despite the bumpy journey and being on a train track she continued her journey, Maybe she was taking a shortcut?.
Police raced to the scene and Trains were suspended causing delays between Newcastle Airport and Regent Centre after the car was spotted on the line at Kingston Park.
Nexus Rail worker Danny Usher has told Police Hour that an 89-year-old woman got confused and took a wrong turn and made a mistake,
"The lady was 89 years old the poor women got confused and made a mistake luckily nobody was hurt and the police have taken her licence off her for her own safety"
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— Police Hour (@PoliceHour) August 14, 2018
Police have said the driver had gotten lost and took a wrong turn onto the railway and was heading towards Bank Foot station before she stopped at the platform.
Police responded to the incident at 8.30pm and helped get the woman out of the car to safety.
The track has also been checked for any damage before trains resumed at 9.15pm.
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Sunderland Doctor secretly took pictures of woman at stages of undress while seeing the DR
A trusted doctor in Sunderland has been sentenced to 14 months in jail after secretly taking of pictures and videos of his patients.
Last month (July), Dr Thair Altaii, 55, was found guilty of three counts of voyeurism between 2008 and 2014.
The GP, of White Rocks Grove, Whitburn, was found to have more than 19,000 images of women on his laptop, some clothed and others in various stages of undress, after one of his patients raised concerns to police. A number of videos were also found on Altaii's laptop and other equipment.
After being found guilty of all charges by a jury, Altaii was today (Tuesday, August 14) back at Newcastle Crown Court as the judge sentenced him to 14 months' imprisonment.
Detective Constable Lee Boys, of Northumbria Police, said: "Thair Altaii clearly abused his position of trust and caused inevitable distress to his victims, who were totally unaware of what he was doing.
"He must now deal with the consequences of his actions, having destroyed his own professional career and reputation.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank his victims for the courage, determination and dignity they have shown throughout this investigation, and for their assistance at every step of the process.
"It is their bravery and willingness to inform police of Altaii's suspicious behaviour that has resulted in his conviction, ensuring no more of his patients can become unwilling and unknowing victims."
Altaii was arrested in August 2014 after a patient noticed two propped up mobile phones – one on his desk and another on a shelf overlooking the examination table – during an appointment and subsequently alerted police.
His laptop, along with other equipment, was subsequently seized by officers.
The doctor, who was suspended from his role after the allegations came to light, claimed the images were captured for his own assessment and training purposes.
He initially denied recording any of his patients without consent when first spoken to by police.
But during a later interview, he accepted recording nine medical consultations without permission of the patients or making them aware.
When shown some of the images recovered from his laptop, Altaii said they may have been produced automatically after filming appointments "for training reasons".
The doctor pleaded not guilty to all charges at court and denied any of the images or videos were taken for sexual gratification.
Any patients who have concerns are asked to call 0800 464 0386 or 0330 041 2186.
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What separates the good athlete from the truly great? How do some athletes transcend the pain and agony of extreme physical performance?
For the first time, artist Anthony Dallmann-Jones will show his three unique types of art together in one exhibit, Sculpting with Light, at the Fond du Lac Public Library's Langdon Divers Gallery June 1 to July 5.
If you are a fan of Jane Austen's works you might enjoy these authors' modern versions of some of her greatest classics. I finished Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld this weekend and I have to say I was impressed. The story was very well written and the author has some thoughtful commentary on modern society, which I think Miss Austen would have appreciated.
Two very funny new stories have been installed in the StoryWalk® on the east end of Lakeside Park near the intersection of Harbor View and Winnebago drives.
The new stories, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach and Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont, encourage families to enjoy reading and the outdoors by reading a book – a page at a time – at intervals on the walking trail.
The Lakeside Park project was installed in 2015 by the Fond du Lac Public Library and City of Fond du Lac Parks Dept. and sponsored by Morning Kiwanis.
Surrounded by a display of all entries in the Fond du Lac Public Library's two contests for teens, awards were presented to winners in the Langdon Divers Gallery on May 12.
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Check out the display on family saga novels at the Library! Family is a common theme for stories and a popular theme for readers. Among the titles on display is I Gave My Heart to Know This by Ellen Baker. This is a good book for anyone who likes family sagas and anyone who likes to read books with a Wisconsin connection.
The second installment in her paperback Mystic Creek series, New Leaf by Catherine Anderson is another excellent read by one of my favorite authors. It is most definitely a romance novel, but the book also touches on some very real social issues trending in the world today; attitudes toward law enforcement officers, as well as how wealth and dishonesty can affect court decisions. I think the author addresses these issues in a very real and believable way.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is a charming debut novel by a Swedish author. Ove is a grumpy man with fixed routines and standards who has been forced into early retirement. He loves his wife and his Saab but is difficult and bitter with everyone else. Yet beneath his crusty exterior is a tender heart. The first thing that brought tears to my eyes when I read this book was that (spoiler) Ove's beloved wife Sonja is dead.
Fond du Lac County is home to amazingly creative teens. Their ingenuity was on full display during separate judging sessions for the Fond du Lac Public Library's two spring contests: Upcycled Glam and Teen Photo.
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Each year a few outstanding students enter the College after the junior year of high school. Students who wish to apply for early admission should plan to complete a senior English course before entrance to the College and should write to the dean of admissions about application procedures. An interview, on campus or with an alumna area representative, is required of early admission candidates.
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Colleges Join Hands with Labor for Workforce Development
NEWPORT - Vermont State Collages have teamed up with the Department of Labor and the Vermont Department of Commerce and Community Development with a goal of filling the thousands of positions expected locally in the near future. Jay Peak's Bill Stenger and partners announced major development plans last fall for the Northeast Kingdom. Who will fill these jobs, and what training is required remains in question.Faculty and staff at Community College of Vermont (CCV) in Newport are excited about the great potential for programs to meet the needs of workforce development resulting in regional growth. CCV already has a hospitality and tourism program, and Mercedes Pour-Previti, a coordinator of academic services, expects the program to flourish. The Newport site also offers a number of medical related programs. One such program is an associate's degree in medical assisting. Pour-Previti and others are waiting to hear further on what AnC Bio is looking for in potential employees to see if they need to make any adjustments to their current programs. They also are working to become more aware of what other local and state educational institutions offer in order to best serve students interests and goals.For more of this story, see Friday's Newport Daily Express for Jan. 18, 2013