Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Why Look for Scandals? 11
Part 1: Scandals in Jesus’ Life Illegitimate Birth 16
Ineligible Bachelor 22
Fraudulent Miracles 27
Bad Table Manners 33
Alcohol Abuse 38
Disruptive Worship 43
Exposing Temple Scams 49
Supplanting Passover 54
Contemplating Suicide 60
Censored Arrest Warrant 65
Shameful Execution 71
Embarrassing Resurrection 76
Part 2: Scandals Among Jesus’ Friends Mary Magdalene 82
Judas Iscariot 88
Second-rate Disciples 93
The Unchosen 102
The Cursed 106
Prostitutes 111
Part 3: Scandals in Jesus’ Teaching Child Abuse 118
Hypocrisy 122
Polygamy 126
No-fault Divorce 132
Marital Abuse 140
Unfair Loans 147
Oaths and Curses 153
Bitterness and Hatred 158
Good and Bad Luck 163
God-sent Disasters 168
Unforgivable Blasphemy 173
Eternal Torment 178
Further Reading 185
Index 187

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About the Author

The Revd Dr David Instone-Brewer is Senior Research Fellow and TechnicalOfficer at Tyndale House, Cambridge. A Baptist minister, his hobby iscomputer programming. A rabbinic scholar, he is author of many academicand popular articles, and of 'Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities', published by Paternoster.