RCL reading for Sunday, March 1, 2009:
Excerpt from The New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
1 Peter 3:18-22
18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison,
20 who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water.
21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you — not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
QUESTIONS:
What or who are the "spirits in prison" in verse 19?
In verse 20, what is the significance of being "saved through water"?
In verse 21, the word "appeal" is sometimes translated as "pledge." What is the original word? In what ways does the meaning of the sentence change based upon the English translation of that word?
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