According to I Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s wife traveled with him on his missionary travels. It raises lots of questions such as where was she when Herod put Peter in prison as mentioned in Acts 12. Was she by chance at the home of John Mark’s mother Mary when the angel led Peter out of the prison and Peter went to Mary’s house? The more we read these stories the more details we wish we had. According to Eusebius, the Christian Roman historian, after Nero had arrested Peter and his wife, Nero had Peter’s wife crucified with Peter watching. Eusebius supposedly got this from the church father Titus Flavius Clement.
There is a hymn with the words, “Feed me til I want no more.” Is that possible? I am a glutton to know more. It is true there are moments when my brain seems full and I need a respite of inflow but just like physical food tomorrow I am ready for more. The wonder of the human brain is its infinite capacity. There is never a time when in order to remember something new we have to forget something old to make room for the new. We can just keep on adding. I do notice that retrieval seems to take longer. Is that because the internal search engine has more to sort through to get the right data or is it merely the result of plaque buildup in the arteries?
Curiosity is one of our gifts. We want to know or is it we have to know? Either way Jesus has promised us an eternity of scholarship. If you hated school don’t panic. This will be the best school with the best teachers you could ever imagine. You will love school.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 14, 2014
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