{"id":2157,"date":"2012-09-17T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2012-09-18T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:32:29","slug":"in-unison-and-without-hesitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"In unison and without hesitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.\u00a0\u00a0 Micah 5:2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a definite reference to the coming of the Messiah.\u00a0 The ancient Jewish scribes were all aware of this.\u00a0 When Herod asked the scribes where the &#8220;King of the Jews&#8221; was to be born, they answered in unison and without hesitation: &#8220;Bethlehem&#8221;, and then quoted this verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.\u00a0\u00a0 Micah 5:2 This is a definite reference to the coming of the Messiah.\u00a0 The ancient Jewish scribes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In unison and without hesitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}