Board Thread:Community Engagement/@comment-26538658-20170407212525/@comment-5175866-20170408004038

I will point out a few potential issue with the houses you suggested, firstly. The biblical account in Mark 16, John 20, and Luke 24 state that the house the Apostles (and other Disciples) stayed in was specifically located in Jerusalem. The house of Mary, Martha and Lazarus was located in Bethany, not Jerusalem. Bethany was in very close proximity (a suburb of the city) to Jerusalem.

In addition Chuza was the manager of Herod Antipas house so he and his wife probably lived inside the palace grounds on a regular basis.

My theory is that the Apostles hid (or it would make a lot of logical sense) at the place where Jesus conducted the Last Supper; a guest room on a upper floor in Jerusalem. Here they reclined at the table. They were also reclining at the place they hid (though they would have reclined at the table no matter where they stayed). I suggest this place, because they were recently here and the place was familair. At the same time it could be said that the man carrying the jar of water was Jewish so they would have avoided that place to stay away from a Jew (but this leads onto a rabbit trail and I doubt it would be paranoia of every Jew, just the Jewish leadership).

Any of the houses that belonged to the Apostles in Jerusalem or other believers could have worked. I don't think its important to flesh out a specific owner of the home (you can be ambigious as Scripture is). I am curious to know how long of a work this will be? I would also be interested in reading it and perhaps even proofing it for accuracy and grammar. What are your ambitions on this project, is this just a short personal story or hopes for a amateur novel?

Be mindful when you say "style of the Bible" it is probably going to be closer to the style of your translation rather than mimicing the marks of the author's style. At the very least it would require a strong understanding of the literary qualities of a book and being able to anaylsis certain patterns embedded by the authors of the Gospels. This may be something you would be able to do. One can only go so far with this without having a knowledge of Greek to really be able to reflect the style of the Bible. I am guessing you are trying to write your story in a similair narrative-recount genre (the way the Gospels and biblical historical accounts recounts things)?

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator and Bureaucrat 00:40, April 8, 2017 (UTC)