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Reflections is a compilation of Doug Greenwold’s monthly, contextual “Reflections” newsletters. These “Reflections” examine various Bible passages and illustrate their contexts and significance.

For a first-century Jew, to repent was to “fundamentally change the way you see and understand everything.”10 To put it into our 2lst-century vocabulary, first-century “repentance” meant to “change your worldview and all the paradigms that come with it.” It embodies a “turning from” one way of understanding things and “turning to” a new, very different way of seeing and understanding things. This kind of repentance involves “a transformation of the entire person.”11 Thus if we were going to be true