John M.G. Barclay
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Sep 30, 2026
AJ SwobodaHOST
And when they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying.
AJ SwobodaHOST
Those present were Peter, James, John, Andrew.
AJ SwobodaHOST
These are the OGs.
AJ SwobodaHOST
Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas, son of...
AJ SwobodaHOST
So basically the contour, the context of the story is they're all together, they're in prayer.
AJ SwobodaHOST
And then Peter stands up and they decide as a group that Judas, who's no longer in the room, needs to be replaced.
AJ SwobodaHOST
So they were told, verse 21, therefore it is necessary to choose among the men, this is Peter speaking, who have been with us the whole time that the Lord Jesus lived among us, beginning from John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us.
AJ SwobodaHOST
For one of these men must become a witness with us of his resurrection.
Matthew ThomasGUEST
And you can see this, we don't have to just say this in relation to like, you know, not every reformer is, you know, pure metaphysical kind of anomalous and stuff.
Matthew ThomasGUEST
Every one of the reformers, I mean, Bouye does a very good job of pointing this out and just saying that the real challenge of Luther's scholarship, like the way John Barclay put this, he says, every quote from Luther can be countered by another quote from Luther.
Matthew ThomasGUEST
Which I think is fantastic, and it's one of the things that makes Luther always a really interesting read.
Matthew ThomasGUEST
But just the fact of the matter is, I don't think that he's always consistent in his thought.
Cody CookHOST
And I mean, I do think that, that, that some of that scholarship can weigh in on really central issues too.
Cody CookHOST
Like I think that some of the work, for example, that David De Silva has done on, you know, honor and patronage and sort of explaining this idea of gift or John Barclay's stuff on the gift, in my opinion, kicks the pants out of what Luther does with it.
Cody CookHOST
So, but now that Luther is also a scholar and an expert, right? And so sometimes these, these interpretive communities can be led by certain figures or certain traditions and, And so I think there's a lot of value, of course, to I think trying to read widely to sort of say, well, what are other Christians of other times and places saying? It's not just me that's filled with the Holy Spirit.
Cody CookHOST
It's not just my community that's filled with the Holy Spirit.