{"id":19936,"date":"2022-01-19T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-newyear-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:05:19","slug":"2022-peace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace be unto You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Israel\u00a0 Institute of Biblical Studies<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19938 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In one of the final scenes in the Gospels, the risen Christ appears before his mourning disciples. Although his body bears the fresh scars of the crucifixion, he greets them heartily with, \u201cPeace be unto you\u201d (John 20:19). Of course, Jesus did not speak English so what were his original words that he spoke, and what does Hebrew reveal about them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going Back to the Roots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cpeace be unto you\u201d is so common among Christians today that one hardly gives it any thought at all. But let&#8217;s think about its meaning carefully. Although Jesus taught about peace and love frequently, the greeting, \u201cPeace be unto you,\u201d does not appear anywhere in the Gospels before his crucifixion.\u00a0<strong>To understand Jesus\u2019s greeting, we need to go back to its original Hebrew.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19939 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hebrew Reveals the Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew words uttered by Jesus were, \u201c<em>Shalom lakhem\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd \u05dc\u05b8\u05db\u05b6\u05dd).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>Shalom\u201d\u00a0<\/em>means \u201cpeace\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and comes from the root\u00a0<strong>SLM (\u05e9\u05dc\u05dd) meaning \u201ccomplete.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0This is because peace is the ultimate state of wholeness. Another word that comes from this root is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<em>shelem,<\/em>\u201d a type of temple sacrifice<\/strong>\u00a0that expressed gratitude to God. Also called \u201cthe offering of well-being&#8221; (Leviticus 3:1), it symbolized a fellowship with the Lord through the shedding of blood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19940 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/peace-3-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gain New Insight into Scripture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Jesus greets his disciples with the words, \u201c<em>Shalom lakhem<\/em>,\u201d he is essentially telling them, \u201cDon\u2019t worry that my physical body was tortured.\u00a0<strong>It was all for ultimate good of the world, for I am a &#8216;peace-offering unto you.&#8217;<\/strong>\u201d Your understanding of the Bible is only truly whole once you grasp its Hebrew foundations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":19938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-19936","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19937,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/19936\/revisions\/19937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}